单词 | nocturnally |
释义 | nocturnallyadv.ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] > every night nightly1441 nocturnally1543 1543 ( Chron. J. Hardyng (1812) 49 (MED) A roche of stone..About the whiche the sea floweth dayly, And refloweth again nocturnally, Twyse in his course and to the sea again. 1651 S. Sheppard Epigrams iii. 47 Thy Diety is all to great On Parsly for too make thy meat, Such, as to my Lares I Offer up nocturnally. 1783 T. Holcroft Human Happiness iii. 37 The soul..Is found nocturnally eloping. 2. By night, during the night. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adverb] nightseOE on nightOE in (also of, on, upon) the nightOE by nightlOE on (also in) nightslOE a-nightc1175 a-nightsc1175 at nightc1300 within nightc1400 a-nightertime?a1439 a nighttimes1567 at nights1581 nightly1597 benight1642 nocturnally1812 night-times1851 nitely1970 1812 H. Smith & J. Smith Rejected Addr. 65 And if she were here all alone, Our house might nocturnally boast, A bumper of fashion and ton. 1890 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 19 321 Spirits ‘possessing’ people, either nocturnally, as in nightmare, or more or less constantly, as in mania. 1932 Ecology 13 344 Whether or not this or that species is nocturnally periodic in its activities must be discovered through experimentation. 1990 Sunday Express Mag. 21 Oct. 20/1 He spent..years of his life nocturnally..observing..barn owls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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