单词 | glancing |
释义 | glancingn. The action of glance v.1, in various senses. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > sideways movement or a sideways movement > [noun] > an oblique movement > glancing off glancinga1513 slanting1980 the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [noun] > gleam, glimmer, or flicker > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering leaming1387 shimmeringc1405 gleamingc1440 glimmeringc1440 skimmeringc1440 glimpsing1563 gloringa1652 flickering1816 glancing1832 a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxv. f. cxlvii This kynge Wyllyam..by glaunsynge of an Arowe..was wounded to ye deth. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. ccclxxiii. 617 Sir Wylliam Fermyntone excused hymselfe and sayde..howe he coulde nat amende it [his stroke], bycause of glaunsynge of his fote. 1642 J. Milton Apol. Smectymnuus 14 By this upraiding to me the Bordello's, as by other suspicious glancings in his book he would seem privily to point me out..as one whose custome of life were not honest. 1701 T. Beverley Grand Apoc. Question 42 All which speak the Openings, and Glancings [printed Glaneings] out of the Kingdom of Christ. 1832 H. Martineau Ireland v. 82 She saw a glancing and gleaming on the extreme point of the track..It was the glittering of the arms of a strong party of soldiers. 1843 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Mexico I. ii. v. 304 The glancing of their weapons, and the shrill cry of the trumpet, all filled the spectators with astonishment. Compounds glancing-glass n. Scottish ‘a glass used by children for reflecting the rays of the sun on any object’ (Jamieson). In quots. figurative. ΚΠ 1728 P. Walker Some Remarkable Passages Life A. Peden (ed. 3) 95 A glazing Glancing-glass, who loves to hear himself speak, and the World to notice him. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 320 Gazing, glancing-glasses they are, fit only to fling the glaiks in folks een. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online September 2019). glancingadj. a. That glances (in various senses of the verb). ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adjective] glancing1596 allusive1607 indicative1624 suggestive1631 insinuative1649 suspicious1663 hinting1820 subindicative1822 subtextual1950 the world > matter > light > light emitted in particular manner > [adjective] > gleaming, glimmering, or flickering levininga1340 leaming1387 gloringa1400 gleamingc1400 glimpsing1551 shimmering1558 glooming1579 brandishing1581 gleamy1593 glancing1596 glimmering1600 flickering1608 flashing1616 blinking1681 glimmerous1793 skimmeringa1800 aglimmer1828 agleam1854 aglint1871 aglance1880 glinting1883 shimmery1883 glimmery1906 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene v. vi. sig. R6 The glauncing sparkles through her beuer glared, And from her eies did flash out fiery light. View more context for this quotation 1702 R. L'Estrange tr. Josephus Jewish Antiq. xvii. xiv, in Wks. 495 He Insinuated, by this Glancing way, some Remote Pretension that he might have to the Crown. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 463 This [scar] on Parnassus combating the boar, With glancing rage the tusky savage tore. 1814 R. Southey Roderick xvii. 49 The stream—with its shadows and its glancing lights. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda III. vi. xlviii. 382 She had a glancing forethought of what she would do in that case. ΚΠ 1691 T. Hale Acct. New Inventions p. xii This glancing View of these two great Inventions. 1707 J. Norris Pract. Treat. Humility iii. 102 To take a short glancing view of the imperfections of our nature. Compounds †glancing-wise adv. ΚΠ 1548 W. Patten Exped. Scotl. H iiij Syr Thomas Darcy vpon hys approch to the enemies, was strooken glauncing wyse on the ryght syde, with a bullet. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 24 He had never opened it to them but in darcke speaches, and glawnsingwise, and so muche as sufficed to put them in some hope. Derivatives ˈglancingly adv. in a glancing fashion. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > [adverb] > without thoroughness or exactness lightlyOE overly1440 superficially1526 slovenly1548 glancingly1556 overrunningly1561 cursorily1565 perfunctorily1581 sloven-like1589 cursoriwise1598 perfunctoriously1609 slubberingly1622 cursitorily1628 skimmingly1847 unscrutinizingly1891 sloppily1898 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie xxxv. 47 Tharbiters glaunsingly, Ere the flies ought saide..Had betweene them selues these woords. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. 578/2 Others glansinglie passe by it, as a matter of no great observation. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues (1713) iii. xxix. 253 These six..I distinctly remember, but had cursorily and glancingly cast mine Eye on all twelve. 1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 21 502 My feet shall bear me glancingly along to the merry music of streams. 1855 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 22 119 There are plenty of witty men..whose faculties play glancingly upon the surface of things. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.a1513adj.1548 |
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