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单词 indeterminately
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indeterminatelyadv.

/ɪndɪˈtəːmɪnətli/
Etymology: < indeterminate adj. + -ly suffix2.
In an indeterminate manner.
1. Without precision; indefinitely; vaguely.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > indefinitely
indefinitely1471
indeterminably1471
infinitely1530
grossly1537
indeterminately1571
neutrally1571
undeterminately1571
indefinitively1622
vaguely1781
society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adverb] > vaguely or inexplicitly
overthwartly1571
indirectly1598
implicitly1635
unexplicit1775
inexplicitly1776
vaguely1781
indeterminately1835
woollily1937
1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lviii. 12) To speake indeterminately, as it were of a multitude.
1628 T. Spencer Art of Logick 168 This word some..doth designe an vniversall, or common terme indeterminately.
1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 350 A Libel is not valid, if the Demand or Petition therein containd be deduced and set forth indeterminately.
1835 I. Taylor Spiritual Despotism iv. 166 No writer of the age of Cyprian uses the words bishop, presbyter, and deacon so indeterminately or so abstractedly as do the apostles.
2. Without specification or selection; indifferently. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > relative properties > kind or sort > generality > [adverb] > without specification
indeterminatelya1676
the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > misjudgement > indiscriminateness > [adverb]
indifferentlyc1374
indistinctlyc1420
confusedly?1531
undistinctly1548
confusely?c1550
without respect?c1550
without choice1576
intermixedlya1586
unrespectively1586
pell-mell1587
promiscuously1593
mixedly1597
indiscriminate1598
promiscually1602
swoopstake1603
promiscuous1616
irrespectively1624
muddily1648
indiscriminately1652
humdrum1660
indiscriminally1665
undistinguishingly1665
indeterminatelya1676
indiscriminatively1684
indistinguishably1689
indiscretely1698
indistinctively1699
undiscerningly1707
uncritically1763
indiscriminatingly1824
undiscriminatingly1894
unfastidiously1929
a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) i. iv. 106 Whether we subduct that Number of Ten out of the last Generations of Men, or out of Generations a thousand years since, or indeterminately out of the whole Collection [etc.].
1704 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World II. iii. 150 All knowledge must be immediate or mediate indeterminately.
a1761 Bp. E. Law Consid. State World iii. ii. (R.) The worst and most dreadful part of the sentence..which denounced death absolutely and indeterminately.
3. Without deciding or settling a question. rare.Based on Italian indeterminatamente in the title of Galileo's Dialogo (1632): the English transl. of 1661 renders it ‘impartially and indefinitely’.
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the mind > mental capacity > belief > uncertainty, doubt, hesitation > insecure knowledge, uncertainty > questionable state or quality > [adverb]
doubtouslyc1350
opinablyc1450
doubtfully1483
doubtedly1584
problematically1588
dubiously1646
indijudicably1660
disputably1836
indeterminately1841
indeterminably1846
questionably1859
dubitably1864
1841 D. Brewster Martyrs of Sci. i. v. 81 Galileo's work..[in which] he discusses, indeterminately and firmly, the arguments proposed on both sides.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2021).
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