释义 |
maternally, adv.|məˈtɜːnəlɪ| [-ly2.] In a maternal manner; on the maternal side; † as one's mother tongue.
1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 116 They speake vulgarly and Maternally here the Hebrew tongue. 1817G. Rose Diaries (1860) I. 17, I am descended..maternally from the family of Rose of Westerclune. 1868Browning Ring & Bk. ix. 1177 A brow maternally severe. 1902A. Lang Hist. Scot. II. xiii. 355 The heir presumptive is maternally of the house of Ardkinglass. |