| 释义 |
sightly, a. and adv.|ˈsaɪtlɪ|
[f. sight n.1 Cf. MDu. sichtelijc (Du. dial. zichtelijk), MHG. sihtlich (G. sichtlich), visible, etc.]
†1. Visible; conspicuous. Obs.
1532More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 775/1 The wel knowen church [is] so builded..that it shal alway be syghtlye, and can not be hyd. 1571Golding Calvin on Ps. lxxiv. 12 Many manifest deliverances had bin exhibited too the elect people as it were uppon a syghtly stage. 1579Tomson Calvin's Serm. Tim. 2/1 [God] doeth not come downe from heauen, in sightly shape to speake vnto us.
b. U.S. Of places: Open to the view; that may be seen from a distance; commanding a wide prospect.
1828–32Webster, We say, a house stands in a sightly place. 1892A. M. Earle Sabbath in New Engl. i. 5 Our Puritan ancestors dearly loved a ‘sightly location’; and were willing to climb uphill cheerfully..for the sake of having a meeting-house which showed off well.
2. Pleasing to the sight; fair to look at; handsome, beautiful.
1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 148 In a Iuggler, that lightnes is sightly. 1592Greene Conny Catch. iii. 11 In such sightlie roumes it may easily bee thought, Citizens vse not to haue anie thing meane. 1611Bible Transl. Pref. ⁋12 They did not..proportion the houses in such comely fashion, as had bene most sightly and conuenient. a1652Brome Covent Garden i. i, Here's Architecture exprest indeed! It is a most sightly scituation, and fit for Gentry and Nobility. 1748Anson's Voy. ii. xii. 264 They were mounted on very sightly horses. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. (ed. 2) 265 If their schemes were perfectly consistent in all their parts, it would make only a more fair and sightly vision. 1850W. Scoresby Cheever's Whalem. Adv. viii. (1858) 107 The sightly constellation of the southern cross. 1887Ball Nat. S. Amer. 322 The absence of sightly buildings is not felt.
b. As adv. Handsomely, finely.
1591Horsey Trav. (Hakluyt Soc.) 224 This ambassador was..sightly enterteyned. 1592W. Wyrley Armorie, Ld. Chandos 42 They forward came bedect right sightly. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 290 Nor Rhodes, with Alcal and Elba, regard the robes with crosse Sightly beset. 1784Cowper Task iii. 649 He, therefore, who would see his flow'rs dispos'd Sightly and in just order,..Forecasts the future whole. |