单词 | answerably |
释义 | answerablyadv.ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > conformity to or with a pattern, etc. > in conformity with or according to [phrase] accordinglyc1443 according1523 answerably1549 answerable1582 conformable1588 in or with reference to1593 in accordance with (also to)1659 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. iv. f. vii You would conforme youre selues in honest conuersacion answerably to your profession. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus i, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 102 Answerably unto the wisedom of that eminent Botanologer. 1698 R. Ferguson View of Ecclesiastick in Socks & Buskins Pref. He had acted but answerably to the Badge he wears, etc. 1728 J. Morgan Compl. Hist. Algiers I. iv. 114 Rewarded him answerably to his Demerits. 1898 in J. Wright Prayers for Priest & People, Parish & Home 154 May it, by the power of the Holy Ghost, walk answerably to its high calling and leaven the nation. 1920 A. Acton tr. E. Swedenborg Psychol. Trans. 118 The body, which is not active cannot be said to be animal or animated; for the end of the formation of each part is that it may operate answerably to the force of the soul. b. Without construction. Correspondingly, proportionally; suitably, appropriately, fittingly. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb] wellOE tidily1340 avenantlya1375 covenablyc1384 featlya1400 propera1400 queema1400 congruelyc1400 conably1411 cordingc1420 convenablyc1430 competentlyc1440 fitc1440 accordantlyc1443 accordinglyc1443 conveniently1447 at pointc1485 congruentlya1529 appliablyc1530 afferandly1536 suitingly1540 aptly1548 answerably1549 fitlyc1550 agreeingly1563 suitable1584 not unfitly1586 aptitudinallyc1600 handsome1600 sortfully1606 sortably1607 congruouslya1620 accommodately1623 adaptlya1648 inabusivelya1677 suitably1681 agreeably1753 appropriately1795 suitly1913 righteous1948 the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > suitability or appropriateness > [adverb] > in a proportionate manner/with due proportion evena1200 proportionally1389 attemperatelyc1420 measurably1423 proportionablyc1443 proportionly1469 proportionatelyc1487 proportionable1600 commensurably1652 commensuratelya1680 answerably1713 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. II. Ephes. iii. f. vii As perfite and lustye membres, you maye bee answerably mete for so noble a heade, and so hygh a father. 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xxvi. 234/1 Had his mind been answerably furnished with vertue. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wilts. 144 Held the state of a Bishop, answerably habited. 1713 W. Derham Physico-theol. v. iv. 333 If Beasts had been made answerably bigger, there would not have been Grass enough. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VI. xiv. 35 May I but behave answerably! 1892 R. L. Stevenson Footnote to Hist. (1895) 299 Allowance is to be made for the character of the people of Manono, turbulent fellows, boastful of tongue, but of late days not thought to be answerably bold in person. 1922 L. A. Beck Ladies! 16 Glad I am that thus he thinks, and do hope he acts answerably, as he should. 2003 T. Eagleton Sweet Violence vi. 165 If we are to escape the sealed circuit of the self,..we have to..feel for the blinded Oedipus or crazed Lear in their very rebarbative inhumanity. And this demands an answerably ‘inhuman’ compassion, which is far from agreeable. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1549 |
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