| 释义 |
seasonably, adv.|ˈsiːz(ə)nəblɪ|
[f. seasonable a. + -ly2.]
1. In a fitting time; at the right moment; in due season.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love ii. vi. (Skeat) 67 Pardy, shine the sonne neuer so bright, and it bringe forth no hete, ne sesonably the herbes out-bringe of the earthe,..ye wolde wonder and dispreyse that sonne. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. ii. 43 The prince will be but a steward hereof, seasonably to lay it out for publike vse. a1671Ld. Fairfax Mem. (1699) 55 When I was almost senseless, my Surgeon came seasonably, and bound up the wound, and stopt the bleeding. 1711Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) III. 246 This Sermon was very seasonably deliver'd. 1817Southey Wat Tyler i. i, The sun would shine as cheerly, The rains of heaven as seasonably fall, Though neither of these royal pests existed. 1885Manch. Exam. 28 Sept. 5/3 A controversy which has broken out seasonably in the columns of a London contemporary.
¶2. erron. used for seasonally adv.
1928Britain's Industr. Future (Liberal Industr. Inquiry) iv. xxvii. §7. 388 The hours worked in all the jobs concerned (omitting those in which hours varied weekly or seasonably). |