单词 | rashly |
释义 | rashlyadv. 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]. 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. 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