单词 | federally |
释义 | federallyadv. 1. Theology. On the basis of, or through faith in, a covenant. Cf. federal adj. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > vow > covenant > [adverb] federally1639 1639 R. Abbot Triall Church-forsakers xi. 99 He that professeth so much knowledge, either actually, or foederally, as admits him to baptisme, hath put on Christ. 1645 Directory Publique Worship 21 They are Christians, and fœderally holy before Baptisme. 1692 Bp. G. Burnet Disc. Pastoral Care viii. 94 A share in all which is there Federally offered to us. 1739 Burkitt's Expos. Notes N.T. (ed. 11) Matt. xxii. 33 Their Souls are yet alive, fœdrally alive unto God. 1770 W. Steuart Coll. & Observ. ii. 90 The Directory for worship says, that children of professing parents are Christians, and federally holy before baptism. 1851 Gospel Herald 19 267/1 Christ is essentially, federally, meritoriously, and efficiently righteous. 1933 New Eng. Q. 6 708 Persons could be required to become federally holy without implying that they were required to undertake their own conversion. 1988 W. D. Piersen Black Yankees v. 53 While..clearly part of the Christian family of their masters, the young candidates [for baptism] could not themselves be ‘federally holy’ since their parents were native Africans or Afro-Americans living as heathens outside the Christian covenant. 2. After the manner of a federation; by means of a federal association. Also (chiefly U.S.): with respect to federal law and government; at a federal rather than state level. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > association for a common purpose > [adverb] straitly1485 federally1702 confederately1832 society > authority > rule or government > a or the system of government > systems based on specific principle > [adverb] > in federal manner federatively1766 federally1843 1702 G. Mackenzie Parainesis Pacifica 5 Now Community in Trade, on Identity of Terms, being granted invicem amongst these Seven Provinces, only federally United, how much more reasonable, or rather natural is it to allow this Union to a part of our own Body? 1843 J. Martineau Endeavours Christian Life I. xiii. 197 A company of nations, federally bound of God. 1906 Commonw. Austral. Parl. Deb. XXXII. 2269/1 The simplicity of municipal control is not possible federally. 1940 Amer. Guardian 5 Apr. 4/3 The privateers never..reduce their rate unless forced to do so by public competition in the shape of municipally or federally owned [electric power] plants. 1973 J. P. Maclean Backroom Girls & Boys 23 I am speaking federally, of course. The legislatures of this country are interesting, mind you, Queen's Park and the National Assembly quite so, but the big game is up on the Hill. 2010 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 30 June a23/2 The latter amount, known as ‘carried interest’ or ‘the carry’, has been taxed federally at a rate of 15 percent. ΚΠ 1816 B. Waterhouse Jrnl. in Mag. Hist. (1911) 18 iv. 274 Our clergyman was also Federal and preached and prayed Federally, and we read none but Federal newspapers, and associated with none but Federalists. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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