释义 |
mistakenly, adv.|mɪˈsteɪk(ə)nlɪ| [f. prec. + -ly2.] In a mistaken manner; by mistake; under a misapprehension; erroneously.
1654–66Earl of Orrery Parthen. (1676) 805 A Vow..manifested to be mistakenly grounded. 1660Trial Regic. 71 He was unhappily ingaged in that bloody business, I hope mistakenly. 1715Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 71 A Portico (mistakenly called Piazza in England). 1759Goldsm. Bee No. 3 ⁋40 Animated with a strong passion for the great virtues, as they are mistakenly called, and utterly forgetful of the ordinary ones. 1850Robertson Lect. (1858) 69 It matters little whether it was rightly or mistakenly denied. 1881Saintsbury Dryden 115 This was Amphitryon, which some critics have treated most mistakenly as a mere translation of Molière. |