单词 | exclusively |
释义 | exclusivelyadv.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adverb] alone?c1400 exclusively1597 excludinglya1641 1597 T. Morley Plaine & Easie Introd. Musicke 70 In reckoning your distances..you vnderstood mee exclusiuely, and I meant inclusiuely. 1656 A. Cowley Davideis iii. 119 (note) in Poems Some understand this gift exclusively, as to the Sword, Bow, and Girdle. 1661 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mech. (1682) iii. ix. 74 All the Experiments from the 9 to the 17 exclusively our examiner leaving uncensured. 1679–88 in J. Y. Akerman Moneys Secret Services Charles II & James II (1851) (Camden) 146 Com'encing the 20th of September last exclusively, and ending the 14th Dec. instant inclusively. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 152 The first Part lasts from the Date of the Citation to the..Contestation of Suit, exclusively. 1805 E. H. East Rep. Cases King's Bench 5 246 The word until..is used indifferently either inclusively or exclusively. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being special or restricted in application > [adverb] > exclusively privatively1612 exclusively1650 the world > relative properties > kind or sort > individual character or quality > quality of being exclusive > [adverb] > to the exclusion of some things or persons exclusively1650 1650 Bp. J. Taylor Disc. Liberty of Prophesying App. to §18 (1817) 409 [In baptism] when water is taken exclusively to the Spirit, it is very true that it is not water that cleanses the soul. a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) I. 579 To be esteemed, exclusively to all the rest, its inexistent elementary ingredients. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 119 She commands him to address himself to the Queen; and he does so; this I take to mean chiefly or primarily, but not exclusively to the king. 1749 D. Hartley Observ. Man i. iii. 389 These Criterions might establish the Genuineness of the Prophecies, exclusively of all other Evidences. 3. So as to exclude all except some particular object, subject, etc.; solely. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > specific numbers > one > only one > [adverb] onea1200 soulement?c1225 onlepilyc1275 onlepyc1350 alone?c1400 oddlyc1400 allenarly1444 sole1562 solely1588 exclusively1650 singly1655 uniquely1793 1650 O. Cromwell Lett. 12 Sept. Are you troubled that Christ is preached? Is preaching so exclusively your function? 1795 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity (ed. 3) II. ii. vi. 149 The power of life and death resided exclusively in the Roman governor. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. ii. 153 We do not owe our fires exclusively to the miner, or exclusively to the coal merchant. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > [adverb] > exclusively exclusively1814 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park I. xi. 229 A set of men you condemn so conclusively. View more context for this quotation] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < adv.1597 |
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