单词 | prostrately |
释义 | prostratelyadv. In a prostrate position or manner.In later use chiefly in scientific contexts (cf. prostrate adj. 3). ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > posture > action or fact of lying down or reclining > [adverb] > prostrate or face down groofc1374 on grufe (rarely on the grufe)c1375 grovellingsa1400 grovellingc1400 agroofc1425 womblonga1475 grovellingly1548 prostrately1556 grovellingwise1561 flatlong1570 pronely1578 on one's grufe1788 ventre à terre1960 1556 J. Heywood Spider & Flie lxxxviii. 189 The hour is cum: wherin the flie must die, For which he weilth, at spiders foote prostratlie. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded. sig. A2 His bounden Orator T. N. most prostrately offers vp this tribute of inke and paper. 1632 T. Hawkins tr. P. Matthieu Vnhappy Prosperitie 183 Those..who prostrately bowed their knees to adore him, now jested at him. 1712 S. Cobb Callipædia iii. 36 Her, the pleas'd Lover, prostrately, adores. c1837 T. Wade Life & Death King Henry II (1997) 632 Gods! till this Scotland be laid prostrately Beneath our armed heel, she'll ever thus Creep thro' our gates. 1911 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 50 432 Trunk 1–2 m. high or sometimes prostrately elongated. 1987 Jrnl. Ecol. 75 697 (caption) Arrow indicates diatoms that are prostrately attached. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 433/1 Wild asparagus, Asparagus officinalis ssp. prostratus, is a very scarce and local native subspecies, which grows more or less prostrately on grassy sea-cliffs in Cornwall and Pembrokeshire. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1556 |
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