单词 | extravagancy |
释义 | extravagancyn.ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel in specific course or direction > [noun] > deviation from straight course turna1400 circuit1483 circumferencea1549 wrying1592 extravagation1611 extravagancya1616 extravagance1644 deviation1646 outstepping1656 left1675 detour1738 a1616 W. Shakespeare Twelfth Night (1623) ii. i. 10 My determinate voyage is meere extrauagancie . View more context for this quotation 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 224 I will lead you through no more extrauagancies. 1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. 16 For recollecting of the Thoughts, and hindering them from extravagancy. 2. The quality or fact of being extravagant adj. and n. (in senses 5, and 6): †(a) Abnormal or unusual character, eccentricity; impropriety, unbecomingness (obsolete); (b) The quality of exceeding the bounds of decorum, taste, or probability; in later use, flagrant excess, outrageousness; Now somewhat rare; cf. extravagance n. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > lack of moderation or restraint > [noun] unimetec888 unmethelOE overdeeda1200 unmetheshipa1250 outragec1325 ragec1330 reveriec1350 delavinessc1380 recolagea1400 dissolutionc1400 superfluityc1405 wantonness1448 intemperancy1532 intemperacy?1541 untemperance?1541 intemperance1547 excess1552 immoderateness1569 intemperateness1571 unbridledness1571 inordinateness1577 untemperateness1578 dissoluteness1580 acrasia1590 acrasy1590 intemperature1602 inordination1615 inordinancya1617 immoderation1640 extravagancy1651 debauch1672 extravagance1676 incontinency1715 extravaganza1754 incontinence1836 unmeasuredness1864 the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > extravagant behaviour extravagancy1651 extravagance1676 extravaganza1754 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > irregularity > unconformity > abnormality > [noun] outrageoustya1425 enormitya1538 extravagancy1651 spuriousness1674 anormality1836 abnormality1850 abnormalism1851 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan i. viii. 33 In Sonnets, Epigrams..the Fancy must be more eminent; because they please for the Extravagancy. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) xviii. 62 With the like extravagancy he answered to many other questions. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade i. 44 For the bettering of Trade, and pareing off the extravagancy of the Law. 1697 J. Vanbrugh Provok'd Wife iii. 30 Were it not for the extravagancy of the Example, I should e'en tear out these wicked Eyes. 1720 R. Welton tr. T. Alvares de Andrade Sufferings Son of God II. xiv. 362 Touch'd with the Extravagancy..of the Jewish Nation. 3. = extravagance n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > other specific behaviour > [noun] > extravagant behaviour > instance of extravagancy1625 extravagance1650 the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > foolishness, folly > absurdity, incongruity > [noun] > instance of follyc1300 absurditya1525 mumpsimus1531 trim-tram1533 foppery1546 ridicle1570 fangle1583 delirium1599 monstruosity1601 adox1606 absurd1610 extravagancy1625 incongruitya1626 monstrosity1639 extravagant1644 extravagance1650 ridiculea1658 fadoodlea1670 ridiculous1674 irrationalitya1680 ridiculosity1773 whimsy-whamsy1807 absurdism1815 nonsensity1834 nonsensical1842 nonsensicalitya1850 fandango1856 fandangle1880 bollock1919 1625 R. Montagu Appello Cæsarem ii. xxxiv. 248 Popish extravagancies. 1662 B. Gerbier Brief Disc. Princ. Building 17 The causes of many Deformities and Extravagancies in Buildings. 1671 R. Bohun Disc. Wind 64 The Peruvian [mountains], and some others which may be reckon'd as the Extravagancys of Nature.. overlook the Clouds. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lx. 295 Numberless were the extravagancies which broke out among the people. 1838 W. Whewell in I. Todhunter William Whewell (1876) II. 273 Landor's extravagancies of expression. 1852 W. Hamilton Discuss. Philos. & Lit. 491 Luther was betrayed into..extravagancies by an assurance of his personal inspiration. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > squandering or prodigality > [noun] overflowingnessOE wastinga1300 prodigality1340 misdispendingc1390 misspendingc1390 fool-largessec1405 wantonness1448 fool-largec1450 dilapidationc1460 lavish1483 consuminga1538 profusion1545 sumptuosity1550 wastefulness1551 lashing1556 lavishing1574 profuseness1584 lavishness1590 misspense1591 wastening1604 outlashing1611 duck and drake1614 largesse1614 lavishment1630 squandering1632 prodigence1634 dissipation1639 wastry1645 profusiveness1655 high living1656 nepotation1656 extravagancy1666 extravagance1727 profligacy1792 squander1806 profligateness1817 wastrife1818 spendthriftism1862 wasterfulness1884 high-rolling1890 prodigalism1896 spendthriftiness1950 squanderbugging1966 society > trade and finance > management of money > expenditure > waste of money or extravagance > [noun] overflowingnessOE fool-largessec1405 fool-largec1450 improvidencec1450 wastry1645 extravagancy1666 extravagance1727 thriftlessness1817 hand-to-mouth1835 spendthriftism1862 imprevision1883 banging1897 spendthriftiness1950 grasshoppering1956 1666 G. Alsop Char. Province Maryland 3 Natures extravagancy of a superabounding plenty. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xlii. 292 All your extravagancies have been supported gratis. 1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados 110 I have always thought it the height of extravagancy and luxury to fell so stately a tree. 1822 E. Nathan Langreath I. 19 He wanted money to pursue his extravagancies. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.a1616 |
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