单词 | fantastically |
释义 | fantasticallyadv.ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > [adverb] fantastically1526 ideally1598 imaginably1644 fancifully1809 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOvii, Somtyme as it were an angell of lyght: somtyme visibly, somtyme fantastically. 1693 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. III. 175 My Soul fantastically joins with it. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adverb] > merely apparent fantastically1543 phantasmally1855 1543 T. Becon New Yeares Gyfte sig. D.vv, All this was not fantastically done, but truely and unfaynedly. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. I. i. vii. sig. D.viijv/1, Oure Lord suffered in very deede, & not phantastically to the appearaunce onelye. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > [adverb] fantastically1547 conceitedly1588 devicefullya1631 creatively1713 inventively1847 originatively1858 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adverb] fantastically1547 forgedly1578 fabulously1593 fictitiously1646 commentitiously1652 fict1677 1547 J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes B viij a, As Welshe and Scottishe Poetes, haue phantastically fayned. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) v. xiiij. 91/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Arthur, of whom the trifling tales of the Britains..fantasticallie doo..report woonders. 4. According to one's fancy; capriciously, arbitrarily. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > decision > irresolution or vacillation > inconstancy > [adverb] > capriciously unstaidly1556 fantastically1567 humorously1593 skittishly1598 fantasticly1599 garishly1606 humoursomely1653 whimsily1654 quirkishly1673 peevishlya1680 whimsically1711 fancifully1741 capriciously1746 flightily1780 erratically1861 tricksily1866 vagariously1892 quirkily1926 1567 T. Palfreyman Baldwin's Treat. Morall Phylos. (new ed.) iii. iv. f. 97, He can not be a true seruer of god which serueth him..fantastically & in hipocrisie. 1661 A. Cowley Vision Cromwell 21 Though it may seem to some fantastically, yet was it wisely done. 1701 N. Grew Cosmol. Sacra ii. iv. §28 One cannot so much as phantastically choose, Even or Odd. 1829 I. Taylor Nat. Hist. Enthusiasm (1867) iv. 79 The righteous God deals with man~kind not fantastically. 1885 Law Times 79 78/1 Any fantastically coined word. 5. In a fanciful or odd manner; grotesquely, oddly, strangely. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > [adverb] > grotesquely anticly1585 fantastically1600 grotesquely1740 1600 Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 306 A forkt reddish, with a head fantastically carued vpon it. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors 129 Wooden hats, fantastically painted. 1796 J. Morse Amer. Universal Geogr. (new ed.) I. 747 Beads and feathers, fantastically arranged. 1813 Byron Giaour (ed. 4) 13 As springing high its [sc. a fountain] silver dew In whirls fantastically flew. 1857 C. M. Yonge Cameos xliv, in Monthly Packet Nov. 459 Their dress was..fantastically gay. Draft additions 1993 b. To a fantastic degree; extremely, extravagantly. colloq. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > amazingly or wonderfully wonderlyc1000 wonderc1175 wonderfullya1300 marvellouslya1382 marvellousa1400 marvelly?a1400 wonderful14.. miraculouslya1425 wonderslyc1489 wondersc1528 wondrously1535 prodigiously1541 wondrous1557 stupendly1621 stupendiously1629 amazingly1650 stupendously1659 astonishingly1668 tremendously1684 prodigious1694 portentously1755 miraculous1766 awesomely1821 stunningly1823 fabulously1845 devastatingly1905 fantastically1923 dizzyingly1952 staggeringly1976 1923 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Apr. 247/1 Dr. Scripture is, I think, fantastically wrong in supposing that prosody has hitherto put its problem on a ‘typographical basis’. 1931 D. Thomas Poems (1971) 14 The stream's fantastically hard. 1958 Listener 18 Dec. 1040/1 A picture of a girl maybe, fantastically beautiful. 1970 Y. Carter Mr. Campion's Falcon xxi. 155, I want to grovel fantastically. I'm afraid I really do need help. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online June 2014). < |
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