单词 | primitively |
释义 | primitivelyadv. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [adverb] principally1389 radically?1495 primitively1581 underivedly1644 1581 R. Mulcaster Positions ii. 6 It seeme peculiarly to appertaine to the Elementarie, by waie of mine example, which I do applie vnto him primitiuely. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi. sig. iijv One other pretie conceit..also borrowed primitiuely of the Poet, or courtly maker. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World (1617) i. ii. §2 201 Magus is a Persian word primitiuely, whereby is exprest such a one as is altogether conuersant in things diuine. a1645 J. Philipot Villare Cantianum (1659) 227 The Medway, from whence it [sc. Maidstone] primitively borrowed its Name. 1697 T. D'Urfey Intrigues at Versailles ii. i. 13 You are so far from Complementing, and care so little for Corupting a Language with fine Epithites, that you give it us as 'tis primitively spoke—for Rogue, Dog, and such words are commonly the first we learn. 1778 T. Pennant Tour in Wales I. 8 Tre, which signifies primitively a habitation. 1869 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 3) xii. 314 That inverted portion of the integument, from which the whole anterior character of the eye and the lens are primitively formed. b. As a root; primarily, fundamentally; in essence. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > basis or foundation > [adverb] radically?a1425 fundamentallyc1449 primordially1604 primitively1610 cardinally1631 at (the) root1638 centrally1646 ultimately1660 au fond1782 basally1882 basically1903 1610 E. Bolton Elements of Armories 112 [They] set not downe the things themselues as they are Armories, but by abstraction of Elements from Bodies, do giue examples as they primitiuely concurre to their making, which subtilize the witte, and formalize the obiect. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica 59 This direction proceeds not primitively from themselves, but is derivative and contracted from the magneticall effluxions of the earth. View more context for this quotation 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike xix. 116 Therefore it is now evident, that there is no mixture of the Elements, that all bodies primitively and materially, are made onely of water. 1709 R. Gould Wks. II. 122 Of ours! allow'd the Primitively true; 'Tis Insolence and Dullness make the New. 1827 T. Carlyle State Germ. Lit. in Edinb. Rev. Oct. 347 This is the Absolute, the Primitively True. 1970 Mind 79 4 In the classical standpoint terms are given in contrary pairs; it is not assumed that we have first one positive term P primitively given and then a negative term Q defined by means of it. 2. In primitive or ancient times; in the earliest age or time; at the beginning, at first. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > at first, originally, or primitively principally1389 forthmostc1450 primarily1601 primordially1603 primitively1607 originarily1610 fontallya1617 originallya1620 primevallya1711 at or after the first brush1815 archetypally1854 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 748 That rare concord and agreement which was primitiuely ordained by God to be betwixt man and beast. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. vii. 201 So possibly might the Sheep of Peru,..be primitively Sheep, but differenced by their long abode..in Peru. 1704 in Collier Dissuasive fr. Play Ho. 30 Whether this Primitive Church of his was primitively pure, or originally Profane. 1739 W. Chandler et al. Brief Apol. in Behalf Quakers 64 Nor do we judge and condemn those that are found in the Practice..of..Water-baptism as 'twas primitively used. 1777 R. Nation Philos. Disquis. Christian Relig. 35 Whether this globe was primitively the seat of innocent and unlapsed spirits..cannot be known. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. vii. 238 Primitively the kale-pins do not appear to have been confined to any certain number. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xli. 199 There are plenty of whalemen..who have never hostilely encountered the Sperm Whale, but whose sole knowledge of the leviathan is restricted to the ignoble monster primitively pursued in the North. 1893 R. S. Ball Story of Sun 126 A beam of light which was primitively white..becomes sensibly red. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) ix. 155 It is supposed that, primitively, all the gills arose as outgrowths of the basal joint of the appendages, three to each. 1974 Nature 8 Mar. 174/2 Primitively the marsupial pes had a moderately large opposable hallux. 1995 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 13 July Moynihan became fascinated..by the mystery of the tiger—and by the men who primitively hunted the animal, wearing its fur as hats and clothing. 3. In a primitive or ancient style; with the purity, simplicity, or crudity of early times; in a basic or rudimentary way. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > oldness or ancientness > [adverb] > primitively earlya1275 primitively1635 primally1723 1635 S. Birckbek Protestants Evid. (new ed.) xvi.146 Our reformation..drew not the good blood from the body, but onely purged out the pestilent humour; so that we have retained whatsoever was sound, Catholike, and primitively ancient. 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 614 The purest, and most primitively Reformed Church in the World. 1696 T. Comber Disc. Offices 52 Ordinances, which are Purely and Primitively administred there. 1792 W. Cowper Elegy Thomas Young in Wks. (1835–7) X. 138 There lives, deep-learn'd and primitively just, A faithful steward of his Christian trust. 1834 W. A. Caruthers Kentuckian in N.Y. II. x. 138 A boarding-school is a very hot-bed for this tumultuous feeling [sc. the need to be admired], as it exists primitively. 1855 E. C. Gaskell North & South I. iii. 37 ‘I shall arm myself with a knife,’ said Mr. Hale: ‘the days of eating fruit so primitively as you describe are over with me. I must pare it and quarter it before I can enjoy it.’ 1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 50 The pillars are cylindrical; their caps primitively fluted. 1902 Words Eyewitness 72 The most primitively manly race on earth. 1944 Times 4 Mar. 6/4 They live almost primitively in the forests and hills. 1977 Borneo Bull. 7 May 4/3 The ulu people may now be less willing to flock into a town which can cope only primitively with big numbers of visitors. 2000 N.Y. Times 21 Sept. a14/4 The post-outhouse ‘straight-pipe’ way of sanitation from mobile homes and simple cottages—sewage primitively piped straight out into the Great Outdoors. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1581 |
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