| 释义 |
licentiously, adv.|laɪˈsɛnʃəslɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a licentious manner.
1. Without regard to limit or rule; loosely.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. Pref., If they will haue the boundes of the same Fathers..to be stedfastly kept: why doo they..so licentiously passe them? 1577tr. Bullinger's Decades (1592) 380 The Nazarites..had heretofore liued too lycenciously. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. iv. (Arb.) 89 Our auncient rymers..vsed these Cesures either very seldome..or else very licentiously. 1625K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis ii. i. 67 Lycogenes uttered this sparingly..but his fellowes did more licenciously presse the King's dishonour. 1751Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 177 When I am writing to you..I..wander licentiously out of my sphere. 1804Ann. Rev. II. 19/2 No poem was ever so licentiously translated as the English Lusiad. 1894Westm. Gaz. 3 Jan. 1/2 Discussion..would otherwise have been licentiously prolonged.
2. Without regard to law, decorum, or morality; lawlessly, outrageously. Now rare.
1581Savile Tacitus' Hist. iv. x. (1612) 153 Licentiously to commit all enormities. 1643Prynne Sov. Power Parl. App. 58 That no man should aspire to the Crowne licentiously. 1652Needham tr. Selden's Mare Cl. 14 That every one might do therein licentiously, all that which it pleaseth him. 1736Butler Anal. i. ii. 61 Let them act as licentiously as they will. 1781S. Peters Hist. Connecticut 12 Without shewing their right to the spot: they licentiously chose it.
3. Lasciviously, lewdly.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. 1. 26 b, I speake not..how licentiously painters and caruers haue in this point shewed their wantonnesse. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. xxx. 7 They licentiously folow their owne lusts. 1665R. Brathwait Comment. Two Tales (1901) 36 It is not good to touch a woman. To which she answers; not inordinately or licentiously. 1882–3Schaff Encycl. Relig. Encycl. I. 159/2 The Phoenician and Syrian female divinities were worshipped licentiously. |