单词 | pedanticly |
释义 | pedanticlyadv. = pedantically adv.Apparently rare from mid 19th cent., but recently revived. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > pedantry > [adverb] scholasticly1581 pedantically?1608 pedanticly1647 1647 H. More Philos. Poems 305 What thou dost Pedantickly object Concerning my rude rugged uncouth style. 1653 B. Whitelocke Jrnl. Swedish Ambassy (1772) I. 388 He spake latin fluently, butt not pedantickly. 1707 T. Rogers Republican Conclave 93 Scaliger and Casaubon..esteem those people to be no better than Batts, Owls, and Dunces, that pedantickly talk against him. 1792 T. Paine Rights of Man: Pt. Second 4 It [sc. government] robs industry of its honours, by pedanticly making itself the cause of its effects. 1830 W. D. Cooley Maritime & Inland Discov. (1846) III. v. xviii. 274 He does not pedanticly shun theories. 2003 Re: read/packages in comp.lang.lisp (Usenet newsgroup) 24 Aug. Agreed, though I would assert, pedanticly, that the second thing is a semantic operation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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