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单词 incongruously
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incongruouslyadv.

Etymology: < incongruous adj. + -ly suffix2.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: inˈcongruously.
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.
b. Grammar. With violation of grammatical agreement, ungrammatically. Obsolete.
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.
c. Geometry. So as not to coincide. Obsolete.
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).
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