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单词 pyramidally
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pyramidallyadv.

Brit. /pᵻˈramᵻdl̩i/, /pᵻˈramᵻdəli/, U.S. /ˌpɪrəˈmɪdl̩i/, /pəˈræmədl̩i/
Forms: see pyramidal adj. and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: pyramidal adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < pyramidal adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. In a pyramidal manner; in the shape of a pyramid.
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the world > space > shape > angularity > specific angular shape > [adverb] > triangle > pyramid
pyramidally1561
pyramid-wise1589
pyramidicallya1634
1561 R. Eden tr. M. Cortés Arte Nauigation ii. viii. f. xxxiv The shadowe of the whole earth is piramidallye sharpe [Sp. toda la tierra tiene sombra piramidal].
?1578 W. Patten Let. Entertainm. Killingwoorth 67 Vpon a base a too foot square & hy,..a square pilaster rizing pyramidally of a fyfteen foot hy.
1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. v. 203 The rayes of the Sun, and all other luminous Objects as they constitute its visible species, are darted only Pyramidally.
1672 N. Grew Anat. Veg. ii. 42 They stand both together pyramidally.
1718 J. Ozell tr. J. Pitton de Tournefort Voy. Levant I. xii. 384 The Officers, instead of Pistols, carrying at their Saddle-bow huge Leather Bottles, pyramidally shaped.
1778 W. Pryce Mineralogia Cornubiensis 84 Rising pyramidally..at least five hundred and forty feet above the sea.
1859 Jrnl. Amer. Geogr. & Statist. Soc. 1 197 A seven-fold inclosure, or court-within-court, rising like this temple pyramidally.
1890 Farmer's Gaz. 4 Jan. 7/1 The shoots of a pyramidally trained tree.
1960 E. B. Haas in R. A. Falk & W. A. Hanrieder Internat. Law & Organization xiv. 301 Authority can be viewed as being structured hierarchically or pyramidally.
1996 M. Glendinning et al. Hist. Sc. Archit. iii. 116 Clerk's father..had constructed a tall, pyramidally roofed mausoleum.
2. In the manner of an ancient Egyptian mummy (with allusion to embalmment). Obsolete.
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1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiii. 366 A man may be happy without the apprehension thereof: surely in that sence he is pyramidally happy. View more context for this quotation
1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 72 To subsist in bones, and be but Pyramidally extant, is a fallacy in duration.
3. figurative. Greatly, colossally (cf. pyramidal adj. 2b). Obsolete. rare.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adverb] > extremely or exceedingly > hugely or immensely
hugelyc1380
huge1508
enormly1538
monstruously?1548
massively1550
monstrously1602
a worlda1616
hugeouslya1643
immensely1654
vastly1664
swingingly1668
hugeous1673
gigantically1678
vast1688
swingeing1690
thumpingly1693
enormously1695
pancratically1727
immense1754
colossally1809
whooping1866
monumentally1877
pyramidically1886
pyramidally1891
galactically1968
1891 Sat. Rev. 28 Feb. 275/1 So pyramidally ignorant is the British newspaper-man.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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