单词 | over-freely |
释义 | over-freelyadv. Too freely. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > liberal giving > [adverb] > excessively over-freely1659 1659 R. Boyle Some Motives & Incentives to Love of God 29 We may easily play the Prodigalls in parting (over-freely) with our Guifts. 1684 N. Crouch Delights for Ingenious xliii Thou hast in Publick lived long; And overfreely us'd thy Tongue. 1845 S. C. Coleridge What are Liquors made Of? in Pretty Lessons (ed. 4) 65 Should you drink them over freely, You'd get tipsy I'm afraid. 1937 Econ. Hist. Rev. 8 99 There are..pages in which figures are intermingled over-freely with the text. 1958 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 1 53 A personality called the ‘T'ien Shih’, whose title Europeans have translated over-freely as ‘Taoist Pope’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1659 |
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