请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 rashly
释义

rashlyadv.

Brit. /ˈraʃli/, U.S. /ˈræʃli/
Forms: see rash adj. and adv. and -ly suffix2; also 1600s rasly; Scottish pre-1700 raslie, pre-1700 wrachlie.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: rash adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < rash adj. + -ly suffix2. Compare Middle Dutch rasschelīke (Dutch †rasschelijk), Middle Low German raslīk, raschlīk, German †reschlich (16th cent.; also †raschlich), Old Danish, Danish raskelig, Old Swedish rasklika (Swedish †raskeliga), all in sense ‘quickly, rapidly, hurriedly’.
1. In a rash or unconsidered manner; impetuously, recklessly, ill-advisedly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adverb] > rashly or recklessly
recklesslyeOE
abandonc1330
rabbishlya1387
recklessa1450
savagelyc1450
temerarilyc1450
temerously1461
rashly?1518
temerariously1535
improvisedlya1538
hare-brainedlya1577
rash1591
wretchlessly?16..
over-rashly1609
bayardly1624
to run amok1689
harum-scarum1691
hell-bent1863
?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. B.iiv Wherfore beware rasshely [L. temere] to these soone to consent.
1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere v. p. cxcv He is somwhat ouer temeraryouse and bolde..to iudge so rashely the repentaunce of other men.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Prov. xxi. D An vngodly man goeth forth rashly.
1560 J. Daus tr. J. Sleidane Commentaries f. xxix To the intente I..do nothyng rashely,..I require a time to take deliberation.
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §43. 261 What is believed without a promise, is..rashly and audaciously presumed.
1696 W. Whiston Disc. conc. Mosaick Hist. Creation 49 in New Theory of Earth We ought not rashly to pass our Judgment of them.
1736 T. Lediard Life Marlborough II. 31 This high Opinion..appear'd to be too rashly and immaturely formed.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. xxxi. 191 Honorius..rashly disqualified many of his bravest and most skilful officers.
1823 N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 320 The king had cautioned the chancellor against engaging rashly in his defence.
1839 A. Ure Dict. Arts 1085 A few have rashly offered to cut the knot, by excluding from the saline family, chloride of sodium, the patriarch of the whole.
1899 Times 15 Feb. 12/3 He knew that the confidence of Dunfermline was not rashly bestowed.
1939 G. Greene Confidential Agent i. ii. 97 He promised rashly, as if in a violent world you could promise anything at all, beyond the moment of speaking.
1960 L. T. Mowrer Indomitable John Scott iii. xli. 323 He rashly spoke of engaging a French tutor for his small son.
2005 Independent 21 June 33/4 I did get into the spirit of the silent auction, rashly signing my name on the sheets for assorted goodies.
2. Quickly, rapidly, hurriedly. Now rare (chiefly English regional in later use).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > rate of motion > swiftness > [adverb]
yeverlyeOE
cofeOE
snellya1000
whatlichea1000
swiftlyc1000
yernea1023
skeetc1175
swithc1175
whatec1175
lightly?c1225
tidelyc1225
fastlyc1275
swithc1275
fastc1300
quickc1300
titec1300
quicklya1325
rada1325
snellc1330
titelyc1330
swithly?1370
hastlya1375
ketlya1375
ketec1380
speedlyc1380
speedfully1398
keenlya1400
skeetlya1400
speedilya1400
swiftc1400
yederlyc1400
apacea1423
rasha1475
runninglyc1475
speedful?c1480
rackly?a1500
rashly1533
stiffly1535
roundly1548
post1549
fleet1587
fleetly1598
speedy1601
raptly1646
fastisha1650
wingedly1651
rapidly1653
rapid1677
velociously1680
express1765
quicklike1782
spankingly1803
spankily1842
fleetingly1883
quick-foot1891
on the quick-foot1894
zippily1924
1533 T. Paynell tr. U. von Hutten De Morbo Gallico xxvi. f. 70 How than ought he to beware & take.., that he offer not hym selfe to be rasshely plucked and tooren before he haue receyued his strength.
a1547 Earl of Surrey Poems (1964) 12 With teares, for his redresse, I rashly to him ran.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) iii. iv. 79 Why doe you speake so startingly and rashly [1623 rash].
1692 J. Ray Wisdom of God (ed. 2) ii. 102 As we see Fewel burns rashly in such weather.
1728 T. Lewis Hist. Parthian Empire 280 Only one Captain of Horse advanced more rashly than the rest, and was slain with an Arrow, and whose Example had no other Effect than to confirm others in their Duty.
1800 C. Smith tr. A. von Kotzebue Count of Burgundy ii. xi. (stage direct.) He goes off rashly, Bruno follows him.
1805 J. Stagg Misc. Poems (ed. 2) 119 Rashly they scale the scattran swathe.
1868 C. Lofft Ernest (ed. 2) i. 19 On a time it chanced As streams run swifter and more rashly foam Near the springhead.
1887 T. Darlington Folk-speech S. Cheshire I once heard a Wesleyan local preacher say in his sermon that ‘the Egyptians were following rashly behind the Israelites’—meaning, rapidly.
1900 W. Dickinson & E. W. Prevost Gloss. Dial. Cumberland (rev. ed.) 259/1 Rashly, hastily, when speed is required. Obsolesc[ent].
3. Without a settled course. Obsolete. rare.
ΚΠ
1603 P. Holland tr. Plato in tr. Plutarch Morals 1053 For God..tooke all that was visible, restlesse as it was, and mooving still rashly, confusedly, irregularly and without order, which he brought out of confusion, and ranged into order.
?1608 S. Lennard tr. P. Charron Of Wisdome i. xiv. 58 But it [sc. the human spirit] worketh and pursueth it [sic] enterprices, rashly, and irregularly, without order, and without measure, it is a wandring instrument, mooueable, diuersly turning.
1695 Ld. Preston tr. Boethius Of Consol. Philos. iv. vi. 194 Those things which in their Nature are mutable and which would otherwise rashly and irregularly float about.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
<
adv.?1518
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2025/2/24 11:44:55