单词 | incongruously |
释义 | incongruouslyadv. a. In an incongruous manner; inconsistently; inappropriately; incoherently. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > [adverb] unsamena1400 unaccordinglyc1449 discordantlyc1454 incongruly1483 incongruently1568 disagreeingly1591 unanswerable1614 ajar1622 incongruously1641 unanswerably1656 disharmoniously1664 dissonantly1799 inaccordantly1822 inharmoniously1828 unharmoniously1856 unconsonantly1863 1641 Earl of Clarendon Ess. in Tracts (1727) 228 The excellency of those pious fathers have intitled that age, how incongruously soever, to be looked upon as the primitive time. 1744 G. Berkeley Siris (ESTC T72826) §278 Nature..may not improperly and incongruously be styled the life of the world. 1822 J. M. Good Study Med. II. 218 There was a low muttering delirium, in which the patient spoke incongruously. 1847 B. Disraeli Tancred I. ii. xiv. 290 Never were men more incongruously grouped. 1884 Law Times 78 77/2 It shows incongruously beside the more prosaic business of the law. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > [adverb] > in grammar incongruously1647 ungrammatically1699 unsyntactically1879 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 160 They speak of some townes called the Lacones which retain yet and vulgarly speake the old Greek but incongruously. 1693 tr. N. Knatchbull Annot. New Test. 56 Saying, that Luke..writ incongruously, when in truth he is acknowledged by all Expositors too knowing in the Greek to commit such a Solæcism. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > [adverb] > in specific way incongruously1656 projectively1703 unicursally1892 1656 tr. T. Hobbes Elements Philos. ii. xiv. 134 If they be incongruously applyed, they will, as all other crooked Lines, touch one another..in one point onely. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < adv.1641 |
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