单词 | facially |
释义 | faciallyadv. 1. Face to face; in person. Now regional (chiefly West African and South African). rare before 20th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > presence > [adverb] > in person personallya1398 personably1483 faciallya1633 a1633 G. More Holy Pract. Devine Lover (1657) 6 In this life only enigmaticallie..in the future facially and really. 1989 Eng. Today Jan. 23/2 I want to see him facially. 1999 Truth & Reconciliation Comm. (transcript of proceedings) in www.doj.gov.za (O.E.D. Archive) 21 May I did not see him facially, I only saw his back. 2005 Court Sierra Leone (transcript of proceedings) in www.sc-sl.org (O.E.D. Archive) 19 July I saw him facially. He made the contact. 2. With reference to the face. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > [adverb] facially1864 orofacially1977 1864 Daily Tel. 1 Aug. 5/4 His Excellency is not facially remote from the portraits of Talleyrand. 1924 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. Great Brit. & Ireland 54 25 Facially and temperamentally..V takes after his mother's family. 1976 R. Berry Before forever After in A. Richards Penguin Bk. Welsh Short Stories 278 She was transformed, facially harder, her bobbed hair untidy,..her girl-shape lost under a black PVC windcheater. 2005 S. Elmes Talking for Brit. iii. 74 Not ugly facially but rather there's something ungainly. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1633 |
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