释义 |
mentally, adv.|ˈmɛntəlɪ| [f. mental a.1 + -ly2.] a. In the mind, by a mental operation; often with reference to unuttered thoughts, resolves, judgements, etc. b. As regards the mind.
1661Boyle Physiol. Ess. (1679) 208 There is no assignable portion of matter so minute that it may not at least, Mentally, (to borrow a School term) be further divided. 1688― Final Causes Nat. Things iv. 129 If they be so [i.e. useful to us] in any Measure (as for example Mentally) they are So, for what we know, as much as He design'd they should be. 1838Lytton Alice ii. ii, Such, mentally, morally, and physically, was the Reverend Charles Merton. 1848Rimbault Pianoforte 31 When a passage is acquired..it should then be counted mentally, that is, silently. 1879Lindsay Mind Lower Anim. I. 40 Such animals must be considered mentally and morally the superiors of the human infant and child. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 296/1 He is not mentally competent to form and express a wish for an inquiry before a jury. 1892Anstey Voces Populi Ser. ii. 7 John..wonders mentally if he can get away in time. 1894Psychol. Rev. I. 425 It is..the mission of the mentally defective to give us..object lessons in psychology. 1934H. S. Sullivan in H. S. Perry Fusion of Psychiatry & Social Sci. (1964) 9 Disorder of the emotional life of the mentally deranged is too striking to be ignored. 1964J. Tizard (title) Community services for the mentally handicapped. 1970L. J. Karmel Measurement & Evaluation in School iii. vii. 182 The lowest 2 per cent of the population..could be justifiably described as mentally defective. |