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单词 periodically
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periodicallyadv.

Brit. /ˌpɪərɪˈɒdᵻkli/, U.S. /ˌpɪriˈɑdək(ə)li/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: periodical adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < periodical adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare French périodiquement (1611 in Cotgrave as periodiquement).
1.
a. At regularly recurring or definite intervals. Now chiefly Science.
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the world > time > frequency > [adverb] > periodically
termlya1450
by circuit1601
revolvingly1611
tide-wise1611
periodically1646
statedly1658
regularly1665
regular1704
clockwork-like1761
1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xvii. 149 They commonly doe both proceed unto perfection, and have legitimate exclusions, and periodically succeed each other.
1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 80 The chorus of planets moving periodically, by uniform laws, in their several orbits about [the sun].
1847 J. Craig New Universal Dict. Geocyclic, circling the earth periodically.
1867 W. Thomson & P. G. Tait Treat. Nat. Philos. I. ii. 274 This displacement will diminish and increase periodically according to a simple harmonic function of the time.
1933 A. S. Eddington Expanding Universe i. 10 They vary periodically in brightness owing to an actual pulsation or physical change of the star.
1995 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 349 188/2 As cells age the amount of adenylate cyclase expressed increases, and..a suspension oscillates periodically.
b. From time to time, occasionally.
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the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally
whiloma900
whilea1000
stoundmealc1000
stundumOE
otherwhileOE
umquhile1154
with and withc1175
by stoundsa1225
otherwhilesc1225
umbestound?c1225
umbewhilec1230
then and thenc1275
sometime…sometime1297
umstounda1300
by while13..
over while13..
sometime1340
umbe throwea1350
at timesa1382
now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393
umbwhile1393
eftsoona1398
sometimea1400
by sithesc1400
umbestoundsc1400
from time to (formerly unto) time1423
now and (also or) then1445
ever now and nowa1470
when and whenc1470
occasionallya1475
in timesa1500
whiles?a1500
whilomsa1500
sometimes1526
somewhiles1528
at whiles1540
ever now and then1542
a-whiles1546
somewhiles…, somewhiles1547
at sometimes1548
now and thenc1550
ever and anon1558
by occasions1562
on (also upon) occasion1562
as soon…as soon1581
every now and then (also again)1642
by a time1721
once and a while1765
ever and again1788
periodically1825
in spots1851
1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. v. 198 It may even be doubted, whether Turkey and Egypt are upon an average much less populous for the plagues which periodically lay them waste.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. vii. 51 Over this summit the glacier is pushed, and has its back periodically broken.
1898 Educat. Rev. 15 412 The crazes by which teachers are periodically stampeded.
1938 R. Narayan Dark Room vi. 77 He ought to inspect his office periodically at nights.
1958 Times Lit. Suppl. 15 Aug. p. viii/2 The ingenious and at times embarrassing ploys with which English novelists periodically assert their amateur..status.
1992 Independent 1 Dec. 11/7 The taxis are run by Russian gangsters who periodically attack the ‘black skins’ or Caucasians and overturn their stalls.
2. In a magazine or periodical; in the style or character of a periodical. rare.
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1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 315 The crime is not the writing mischievously, or shamefully, but of writing periodically.
1897 Dict. National Biogr. at Stevenson, Robert Louis They were published periodically in the New York ‘Sun’ and ‘Black and White’, and have been in part reprinted in the ‘Edinburgh Edition’.
1912 Dict. National Biogr. at Murray, David Christie In 1879 he contributed his first novel, ‘Life's Atonement’, periodically to ‘Chambers's Journal’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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