单词 | plasticly |
释义 | plasticlyadv. rare before 20th cent. = plastically adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > [adverb] > by moulding or modelling plasticly1678 plasticallya1719 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. v. 668 The True and Proper Cause of Motion..is not the Matter it self Organized; but the Soul either as Cogitative, or Plastickly-Self Active..Ruling over it. 1924 P. Grainger Let. in All-round Man (1994) 70 The different kinds of scrubs or trees stand out very plasticly one from the other. 1965 Jrnl. Ecol. 53 769 They respond more plasticly to intraspecific than to interspecific competition, in which mortality is higher. 1987 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 1 June v. 4/1 [He] lives out West in a strange colony of die-hard TV fans who have been plasticly altered to resemble Captain Kirk. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1678 |
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