单词 | rustically |
释义 | rusticallyadv. 1. In a manner characteristic of the countryside or country people; in a countrified fashion or style; plainly, simply; (depreciative) crudely, without refinement. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social class > the common people > specific classes of common people > peasant or rustic > [adverb] rustically1538 clownishly1591 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > country as opposed to town > [adverb] > in country manner rustically1538 rusticly?1611 rurally1668 1538 T. Elyot Dict. Rusticè, rustycally, vncourteysly, rudely. 1577 J. Grange Golden Aphroditis sig. M.ij v Pan himselfe began to play on his Oten pype, Babys likewise singing and harpyng so rustically, that hee whiche had but one laughter in his belly coulde not but haue laughed hereat. 1579 J. Jones Arte preseruing Bodie & Soule i. xxvi. 50 That the infant be neyther too delicately brought vp, nor too rustically. a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) i. i. 6 For my part, he keepes me rustically at home, or (to speak more properly) staies me heere at home vnkept. View more context for this quotation 1693 J. Dryden tr. Persius Satires i. 11 Returning Home, And Rustically Joy'd, as Chief of Rome. 1714 T. Pearson Hester ii. 26 The Bactrian Beauties rustically move, Yet with a pleasing Rudeness awe to love. 1780 R. J. Sulivan Observ. Tour Eng. xv. 138 It [sc. the stream] leads you..to the wood-house, rustically formed, and presenting you with a prospect of a cascade in its back ground. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 45 I am but a rude man, and rustically brought up to arms and hunting. 1883 R. L. Stevenson Silverado Squatters 129 Rustically ignorant, but with a touch of wood-lore. 1917 G. S. Mathews Treasure ix. 149 It [sc. the dolly, a rock-crushing instrument] is nothing much more than an ordinary pile driver rustically built. 1953 C. Thomas Let. 9 Feb. in D. Thomas Coll. Lett. (1987) 866 What an unreliable breed they are, one minute up, the next down, and us as rustically dull..as ever. 2007 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 17 June v. 7/2 A rare 17th-century ‘bockbord’, a massive slab of a table supported on two rustically carved tree trunks rather than four legs. 2. a. With the ordinary speech or diction of country people; (depreciative) in an uncultured or vulgar style; coarsely. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adverb] barbarously1531 rustically1548 crabbedly1561 scabrouslya1572 gracelesslya1586 unelegantly1603 uneloquently1611 crudely1638 inelegantly1698 ineloquently1828 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xlviijv The Scottes..aunswered theim proudly and rustically with many disdeynfull woordes. 1583 W. Fulke Def. Transl. Script. i. 46 You haue no skill.., that speake so barbarously and rustically of Greeke elegancies. 1634 in 4th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1874) 135/2 Dr. Osberne..did very licentiously and rustically reproache me in very base and opprobrious termes. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) iv. iii. 70 Lest they should speak too rudely and rustically of it by calling it Matter. 1725 T. Fuller Direct. Counsels & Cautions 206 Instead of saying Rustically, I don't believe you: What if you should come in thus? To a Superior, Pray pardon..me Sir, if I am something differing from your Opinion. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 904 The pulpit style has been always either rustically negligent, or bristling with pedantry. 1898 S. J. Weyman Shrewsbury iii. 26 Nor did it matter anything to me..that my mistress went in rags, and had coarse hands, and spoke rustically. 1910 J. A. Symonds in Bk. of Christmas 109 The shepherds kneel, rustically chanting a carol half in Latin, half in English. 1989 R. Katz & C. Dahlhaus tr. J. A. Schiebe Der Critische Musikus in Contempl. Music II. 126 One does not allow oneself to be seduced by the poet who..allows his shepherds to speak coarsely and rustically. 2009 Independent (Drogheda, Ireland) (Nexis) 21 Oct. There is a more rustically crude way of putting it but that'll do for this. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > a language > dialect > [adverb] rustically1611 dialectically1766 dialectally1865 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Mortau, as Mortel (rustically). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1538 |
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