单词 | postwise |
释义 | † postwiseadv. Obsolete. rare. Post-haste, hurriedly. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > rapidity or speed of action or operation > [adverb] > hastily or hurriedly hyinglya1225 rapelya1300 a-rapec1300 frowc1325 batand1330 raplya1375 rapec1380 batauntly1393 untoomlyc1540 snatchingly1552 hastily1590 festinately1598 postingly1610 postwise1744 hastefully1813 hurriedly1816 rush1853 rushy1908 1744 R. North & M. North Life Sir D. North & Rev. J. North 178 Writing postwise at the same Time as the Dispatch was made,..they were so confounded with Mistakes, that they were forced to write all over again. 1858 T. Carlyle tr. Graf von Schmettau in Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia II. x. iv. 624 Generalissimo ad Latus ordered out his whole force of drummers, trumpeters: To fling themselves, postwise, deeper and deeper into the woods all round. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < adv.1744 |
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