| 释义 |
▪ I. deathly, a.|ˈdɛθlɪ|
Forms: 1–2 déaþlíc, 2 deaðlich, deþlich, 6 deathlie, -lye, 6– deathly.
[OE. déaþlíc = OHG. todlîh: f. death n. + -ly1; cf. deadly.]
†1. Subject to death, mortal. Obs.
971Blickl. Hom. 21 Bið þonne undeaþlic, þeah he ær deaþlic wære. a1175Cott. Hom. 221 Þu wurst deaðlic, ȝef þu þes trowes westm ȝéétst. c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 9 Mid ure deaðliche liue.
2. Causing death, deadly.
c1175Lamb. Hom. 75 Deþliche atter. 1548Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. 2 Cor. ii. (R.), Vnholsome and deathlye to such as refuse it. 1555Cohabitacyon of Faithfull 19 The byting of deathlie serpentes. 1568T. Howell Newe Sonnets (1879) 119 When deathly seas compels weake hart to quaile. 1862Trollope N. Amer. I. 263 That deathly flow of hot air coming up..from the neighbouring infernal regions. 1885W. de G. Birch Life K. Harold v. 135 His wounds, many and deathly.
3. Of the nature of or resembling death, deathlike; gloomy, pale, etc. as death.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 69 The deathly day in dole I passe. 1852Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 204 She, poor thing, looking deathly. 1865–8F. Parkman France & Eng. in Amer. (1880) 57 A deathly stillness.
4. Of or pertaining to death. poetical.
1850Mrs. Browning Soul's Trav. 176 That deathly odour which the clay Leaves on its deathlessness alway. 1878Browning La Saisiaz 65 As soul is quenchless by the deathly mists.
▪ II. ˈdeathly, adv.
In 2 deaðliche.
[See prec. and -ly2. Cf. deadly adv. 1, 3, 4.]
†1. In a way causing or tending to death. Obs.
a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 211 Herþurh ich deie þet spec er of swuche þinge and deaðliche sunegi.
2. To a degree resembling death.
1884C. F. Woolson in Harper's Mag. Jan. 197/1 It was ‘deathly cold’ in these ‘stony lanes’. |