单词 | peacefully |
释义 | peacefullyadv. In a peaceful manner; peaceably, amicably; quietly, tranquilly; in peace. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > [adverb] peaceablya1382 peaceable1391 peacefullya1400 opecec1475 pacifically1761 the mind > emotion > love > friendliness > [adverb] friendlyeOE wellOE friendfullyc1379 amiablya1400 lovelilya1400 peacefullya1400 friendlike?a1513 friendlilyc1550 chummily1934 matily1941 the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adverb] softOE i-semelichec1275 peaceablya1382 restfully1433 quietly1488 quietously1546 restly1561 quiet1568 calmly1597 reposedly1598 lowna1600 undisturbedly1647 peacefully1667 tranquilly1756 stilly1802 lownly1820 reposefully1852 sleepily1873 a1400 Psalter (Vesp.) xxxiv. 23 in C. Horstmann Yorkshire Writers (1896) II. 166 Summe it ware Paisfulike [v.r. Paisfullic] þat spekes. 1411 Rolls of Parl. III. 650/2 I am a Justice that..scholde have had me more discretly and peesfully. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1905) II. 448 (MED) Sho sparrid hym in a towr horn faste, and governyd þe empyre peasfullie. 1597 R. Johnson 2nd Pt. Famous Hist. Seauen Champions xi. sig. Q3v They might without all feare of beeing found, liue peacefullie in ioying in each others loue. 1640 in Rose of Kilravock (1848) 333 [Twelve tenants of the] Twa Culmores were peacefully leading peats..from the Month of Mulbuy. 1667 J. Dryden Indian Emperour ii. i. 15 Our lov'd Earth, where peacefully we slept. 1741 Countess of Hartford in Countess of Hartford & Countess of Pomfret Corr. (1805) III. 189 When I am set peacefully down at my farm I shall often read over your letters. 1798 S. T. Coleridge Frost at Midnight in Fears in Solitude 19 At my side My cradled infant slumbers peacefully. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xv. 229 The fishermen of the beleaguering army peacefully rowed their skiffs. 1864 M. E. Braddon Henry Dunbar xix An old man who ended a good and prosperous life peacefully. 1920 Act 10 & 11 George V c. 55 §2 (1) No such regulation shall make it an offence for any person or persons..peacefully to persuade any other person or persons to take part in a strike. 1962 E. Roosevelt Autobiogr. ii. xxii. 173 He was so strong that his heart kept him alive long after most people would have peacefully sunk into oblivion. 2002 P. Blom To have & to Hold (2003) 67 Behind the body..is a rhinoceros, peacefully grazing from the shrubs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.a1400 |
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