单词 | piratically |
释义 | piraticallyadv. In a piratical manner; by piracy. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > piracy > [adverb] piratously1538 piratically1549 1549 Articles of High Treason in Acts Privy Council 1547–50 (1890) 254 Order hath ben taken..that certain gooddes pyratically taken uppon the seas..shulde be restored to the true owners. a1642 W. Monson Naval Tracts (1704) ii. 250/2 The People..were Pyratically given. 1696 Tryalls of Joseph Dawson 12 They..did make an Assault on Captain Gibson..and Pyratically stole away the Ship, and all the Furniture. 1732 A. Bower Historia Litteraria 4 38 It had been officiously and pyratically printed by others. 1780 F. Hervey et al. Naval Hist. Great Brit. (new ed.) I. i. v. 105 The ship and cargo thus piratically seized, were valued at seven hundred pounds. 1852 G. Bancroft Hist. Amer. Revol. I. iii. 82 Its flag had been insulted; its maritime rights disregarded;..its property piratically seized and confiscated. a1854 E. Grant Mem. Highland Lady (1988) II. xxix. 308 A most suspicious looking ‘craft’ bore down upon us, strangely rigged and piratically painted. 1950 K. J. Holzknecht Backgrounds Shakespeare's Plays xiv. 357 Shakespeare's ‘sugar'd sonnets’..were piratically published from a private transcript in 1609. 1994 Daily Tel. 7 Jan. 18/4 Piratically named after old John Pierpoint Morgan's yacht, Corsair was backed by a syndicate of investors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1549 |
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