单词 | indeterminately |
释义 | indeterminatelyadv. 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. 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’. ΘΚΠ 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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