单词 | distinctively |
释义 | distinctivelyadv. In a distinctive manner. 1. With distinguishing operation or effect; in a way that makes a distinction; so as to distinguish; separately, severally. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > [adverb] > characteristically or in terms of specific qualities distinctively1610 characteristicallya1622 specifically1624 distinguishingly1649 all1881 1610 R. Niccols England's Eliza in Mirour for Magistrates (new ed.) 855 (R.) Her [Queen Elizabeth's] sweet tongue could speake distinctively Greek, Latin, Tuscane, Spanish, French, and Dutch. a1677 I. Barrow Wks. (1683) II. 493 To what end also doth he distinctively assign a peculiar dispensation of operations to the Father, of ministeries to the Son, of gifts to the Holy Ghost? 1797 Monthly Mag. Jan. 52 He determined to blend, in a single tableau, all the different colourings of truth which he had long before pourtrayed distinctively. 1825 S. T. Coleridge Aids Refl. 209 Contemplated distinctively in reference to formal (or abstract) truth, it is the speculative Reason. 1833 T. Chalmers On Power Wisdom & Goodness of God I. ii. 117 Ere we see clearly and distinctively. 1841–8 F. Myers Catholic Thoughts II. iii. §38. 136 Not only..Facts..but also..what may be distinctively termed Truths, or technically Doctrines. 1863 E. V. Neale Analogy Thought & Nature 61 The individual rose has become to us one among many roses, each of which may be thought of as distinctively colored. 2. In a distinguishing manner; characteristically as distinct from others; peculiarly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > difference > [adverb] > distinctly or marking the difference between distinctlya1382 in sunderc1450 differencinglya1640 differentially1644 distinguishedly1680 distinguishably1704 sheerly1866 distinctively1871 1871 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. (1872) 37 If we can suppose a distinctively Saxon settlement in the north. 1873–4 J. T. Moggridge Ants & Spiders Suppl. 168 The seeds of the distinctively spring and summer-flowering plants. 1881 Sat. Rev. 23 July 101/1 There is nothing distinctively Christian..in Gothic architecture. 1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams i. viii. 134 Legends and traditions..invested with a purity and majesty distinctively Hebrew. 3. ? Distinctly. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adverb] > clearly distinctly1382 distinctively1632 1632 Shakespeare's Othello i. iii. 154 Whereof by parcels she had something heard, But not distinctively [1622 intentiuely, 1623 instinctiuely]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1610 |
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