单词 | abandonly |
释义 | † abandonlyadv.1 Scottish. Obsolete. Recklessly, impetuously, unguardedly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adverb] unwarelyc893 unadvised1420 abandonly1487 incautely1510 uncircumspectly1535 incircumspectly1542 unware1545 unwarily1580 incautelouslya1656 unguardedly1713 uncautiously1721 incautiously1733 1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) viii. 461 Thai yschit all abaundanly [1489 Adv. abandounly] And prikit furth sa vilfully. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) iv. l. 674 He tuk the strenth magre thar fayis will, Abandonly in bargan baid thar still. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2020). abandonlyadv.2 Now rare. Without constraint. ΚΠ 1757 London Evening-Post 24 May The People of this Land were not..abandonly corrupt, or stupidly insensible. 1799 tr. J.-H. Meister Lett. Resid. Eng. xiv. 221 A period when the example of a court, abandonly vicious, countenanced a dissoluteness of manners. 1889 L. R. Hamberlin in Publ. Mississippi Hist. Soc. 7 (1903) 175 I love this little stretch o' sea, Where sea gulls drift on silver wing, Or in the lolling waters fling Their silver selves abandonly. 1891 O. P. Read Road to Mire in Sel. Stories 84 I had taken morphia, not abandonly, for I was determined to quit; but the weeks, yes, the months passed. 1915 R. Keable City of Dawn xviii. 171 The body, wrapped in many clothes, is borne on a kind of bier, round which men leap wildly and abandonly, trying to touch it. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.11487adv.21757 |
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