单词 | adverbial |
释义 | adverbialadj.n. A. adj. 1. Grammar. Of, relating to, or of the nature of an adverb; that is or functions as an adverb. Cf. earlier adverbially adv.; see also preadverbial adj. at pre- prefix 2a(a)(iv). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adverb > [adjective] adverbial1475 adverbal1815 1475 W. Hill et al. Let. 5 Dec. in J. Buxton & P. Williams New Coll., Oxf. (1979) 27 By termys of Latyn, sum tyme in equivocacion, sum tyme in adverbyall or coniunccionall determinacion. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at À Before an Adiectiue, sometimes makes it admit of an Aduerbiall interpretation; as, à droict, à tort; rightfully, wrongfully. 1653 R. Lloyd Latine Gram. 123 (heading) Of Adverbiall Constructions. a1704 T. Brown in Wks. (1707) I. i. 56 (title) A Bantering Adverbial Declamation, Written by Mr. Tho. Brown. 1788 Chambers's Cycl. (new ed.) I. at Adverbial Adverbial numbers are sometimes used to denote once, twice, thrice. 1820 Monthly Rev. Apr. 447 We have substituted the Gothic adverbial termination ly, for the French ment, in derivations from the Latin. 1873 R. Morris Hist. Outl. Eng. Accidence xiv. §311 In such phrases as ‘He went home’, ‘They wandered north and south’..home, north, south are adverbial accusatives. 1914 S. V. Sanford & P. F. Brown Eng. Gram. vii. 171 The words yes and no were originally adverbs, but they have, at present, little or no adverbial force. 1977 J. Lyons Semantics I. 294 As adjectival modification is to nouns, so adverbial modification is to verbs and adjectives. 2010 Times Educ. Suppl. (Nexis) 6 Aug. 40 Numerous missives... bore little testimony to the ability of either correspondent to use compound sentences..[and] adverbial phrases. 2. Given to or characterized by the (excessive) use of adverbs; having a tendency to modify or qualify with adverbs. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > attestation, witness, evidence > qualification > [adjective] > through use of adverbs adverbial1710 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 191. ⁋1 He is also wonderfully adverbial in his Expressions, and breaks off with a ‘perhaps.’ 1850 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 73 What may be termed his Adverbial Philosophy... the Here, the There, the Everywhere, which have haunted his prose so long. 1914 A. J. Eddy Cubists & Post-Impressionism xi. 168 The painfully involved and difficult style of Henry James—the adjectival and adverbial style, the style of endless qualifications. 1986 L. C. Mitchell New Ess. Red Badge of Courage i. 17 The heavily adverbial, prepositional prose rarely defines causal connections. B. n. Grammar. An adverb, or a lexical unit having the function of an adverb.Now often denoting a prepositional phrase which, like an adverb, expresses the place, time, or manner in which something is done or occurs, or the reason why. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adverb > [noun] adverba1425 adverbial1582 adverbal1960 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > syntax or word order > syntactic unit or constituent > [noun] > adjunct or adverbial adverbial1582 adjunct1588 adverbal1960 1582 R. Mulcaster 1st Pt. Elementarie xx. 145 Such as the grammarians in our learned tungs cal possessiues, localls, materialls, aduerbialls, &c. 1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Gram. sig. B3 The aduerbialls, vna vez, once, dos vezes, twise. 1684 R. Gower Censure upon Lilly's Gram. App. 94 They are then far from being Dativ adverbials. 1728 H. MacCurtin Elements Irish Lang. iv. 27 There are several kinds of articles, some are Nominals, some verbals, some Adverbials. 1866 J. M. D. Meiklejohn Easy Eng. Gram. IV. vii. v. 10 We can add on to..the predicate as many Adverbials as we please. 1962 J. Söderlind in Contrib. Eng. Syntax (Gothenburg Stud.) 100 Thus the names of days are used as adverbials without a preposition:..Thursday a decree went out. 1977 Semantics 2 722 Both instrumental adverbials and adverbs of manner..(‘with a knife’ and ‘carelessly’). 2003 C. S. Smith Modes of Disc. ii. 23 The interpretation of a verb constellation may be affected by an adverbial, as in ‘John read a book for an hour’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1475 |
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