sometimesadv.

/ˈsʌmtʌɪmz/

Forms: 1500s somtymes, 1500s–1600s somtimes; Scottish1500s sum tymes, 1700s sumtyms; 1500s sometymes, 1500s– sometimes.

Etymology: < some pron. 7 + times plural of time n., int., and conj.

a. On some occasions; at times; now and then. Cf. sometime adv. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally

whiloma900

whilea1000

stoundmealc1000

stundumOE

otherwhileOE

umquhile1154

with and withc1175

by stoundsa1225

otherwhilesc1225

umbestound?c1225

umbewhilec1230

then and thenc1275

sometime…sometime1297

umstounda1300

by while13..

over while13..

sometime1340

umbe throwea1350

at timesa1382

now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393

umbwhile1393

eftsoona1398

sometimea1400

by sithesc1400

umbestoundsc1400

from time to (formerly unto) time1423

now and (also or) then1445

ever now and nowa1470

when and whenc1470

occasionallya1475

in timesa1500

whiles?a1500

whilomsa1500

sometimes1526

somewhiles1528

at whiles1540

ever now and then1542

a-whiles1546

somewhiles…, somewhiles1547

at sometimes1548

now and thenc1550

ever and anon1558

by occasions1562

on (also upon) occasion1562

as soon…as soon1581

every now and then (also again)1642

by a time1721

once and a while1765

ever and again1788

periodically1825

in spots1851

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Miii He..sheweth vs somtymes the saft rodde of his swete discipline.

1578 Gosson in Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 77 The Poet which sometimes hath trod awry.

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 87 Hither sometimes the King repaires.

1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 213 Just as notable Rogues are hanged and quartered somtimes with their Pardons about their Necks.

1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. xii. xi. 218 Three famous physicians, who had the reputation of curing their patients sometimes.

1780 Mirror No. 105 I mean those little lectures on morality, sometimes known by the name of scandal.

1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 565 Sometimes he spoke so haughtily that the rustics..were provoked into making insolent replies.

1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 60 He liked..to generalise in shrewd and sometimes cynical epigrams.

b. With a correlative (see quots. and cf. sometime adv. 1b, 1c).

ΚΠ

(a)

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R2 Sometimes she song, as lowd as larke in ayre, Sometimes she laught [etc.].

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 19 Sometimes her head on one side, some another. ]

1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 87 A streame of water, sometimes so broad as the Thames at London, but other sometimes neere dried vp.

1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 42 Somtimes sighingly and somtimes comfortably.

1729 W. Law Serious Call x. 154 To be sometimes chaste and modest, and sometimes not.

1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 22/2 Sometimes he wrote the bonds himself in Nagree, sometimes in Bengal, but always signed them with his own hand.

1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 265 Sometimes a wild-hair'd Mænad; Sometimes a Faun with torches; And sometimes.. the divine, Belov'd Iacchus.

1901 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Oct. 389 Running downhill, sometimes with, and sometimes without, a brake.

(b)1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vii. 294 Sometimes he bringeth not home slaues enough to satisfie the merchants: and otherwhiles they are constrained to awaite there a whole yeere.1674 J. Ray Catal. Fishes 107 Sometimes they kill them by striking them cross the snout with a pole, otherwhiles they shoot them.1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) They are some~times of this opinion, and at other times of another.a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III ii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 239/1 Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman; At others a bard [etc.].1897 Dublin Rev. Oct. 394 Sometimes the points are definitive, otherwhiles the writer leaves himself liberty for a different arrangement.(c)1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. ii. sig. D^v Sometimes froward, and then frowning, Sometimes sickish, and then swowning. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 242 Somtimes on firm ground.., then soaring on main wing. 1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 34 Sometimes it fell Among the moss... Now on the polished stones It danced.

c. Used adjectivally to denote ‘occasional’. Cf. sometime adv. 1d.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adjective] > occasional

stoundmealc1400

otherwhile1589

occasional1611

sometimesa1945

a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) v. 44 Nor did they find wholesome nor comfortable..his sometimes flashings into unforeknowable violence.

1974 Publishers Weekly 11 Feb. 56/3 Brando's sometimes generosity, his idealism.

1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 36/2 Srouji confessed her entire FBI history, starting with her role in the Sixties as a sometimes informant.

†2.

a. = sometime adv. 2a, 2b Obsolete.Frequently from c1580 to c1650.

ΚΠ

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Matrimony sig. V vvv j b And S. Peter saith in that same place.., that holy matrones dyd sometymes decke them selues, not with golde and syluer: but in puttynge theyr whole hope in God.

1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iiii^v In Athens reignde somtimes, A king of worthy fame.

1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. vii. 347 There is at this day to be seene a board belonging sometimes to Tullius Cicero.

1642 D. Rogers Naaman Ep. Ded. sig. A3 The blessed lights of his Ministers (who sometimes shined in our Sphere, but now in glory).

1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 157 The Place where Habor..was some~times betrayed, imprisoned, and executed.

†b. = sometime adv. 2d. Obsolete.Frequently from c1600 to c1650.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > once or at some former time

yetOE

oncec1175

somewhilec1200

sometime1297

once upon a timec1380

one while1470

sometimes1563

sometimes1577

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus v. xi, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 347 Probus sometimes a Consul was chiefe gouernour of Italy.

1592 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1877) (modernized text) 3rd Ser. 37 John Thomas, sometimes Bishop Goldwell's man, died in the Counter.

a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vii. §2. 262 Thebes in Ægypt, and Orchomenus, sometimes two rich and populous Cities, but now reduced.

1650 T. Bayly Worcesters Apophthegmes 26 An old ruinated, but sometimes a most famous monastery.

1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxiv. 340 One Games, sometimes School-Master of the Choristers in Magdalen College.

†c. = sometime adv. 2e. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > owning > [adverb] > formerly owning

sometime1423

sometimes1612

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. v. sig. M3^v The goods, sometimes the Orphanes, that the Brethren Bought with their Siluer pence.

†d. = sometime adv. 2f. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. ii. 54 Farewell old Gaunt, thy sometimes brothers wife..must end her life.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 75 Leaue, To looke vpon my sometimes roiall maisters face.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 70 Sparta, where that sometimes famous Citty of Lacedemon flourished.

1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher I. 72 Excelled only by her sometimes tutoress.

†3. at sometimes, = sense 1. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally

whiloma900

whilea1000

stoundmealc1000

stundumOE

otherwhileOE

umquhile1154

with and withc1175

by stoundsa1225

otherwhilesc1225

umbestound?c1225

umbewhilec1230

then and thenc1275

sometime…sometime1297

umstounda1300

by while13..

over while13..

sometime1340

umbe throwea1350

at timesa1382

now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393

umbwhile1393

eftsoona1398

sometimea1400

by sithesc1400

umbestoundsc1400

from time to (formerly unto) time1423

now and (also or) then1445

ever now and nowa1470

when and whenc1470

occasionallya1475

in timesa1500

whiles?a1500

whilomsa1500

sometimes1526

somewhiles1528

at whiles1540

ever now and then1542

a-whiles1546

somewhiles…, somewhiles1547

at sometimes1548

now and thenc1550

ever and anon1558

by occasions1562

on (also upon) occasion1562

as soon…as soon1581

every now and then (also again)1642

by a time1721

once and a while1765

ever and again1788

periodically1825

in spots1851

1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Aliquoties, at sometymes.

1584 T. Lodge Alarum (Shaks. Soc.) 60 Manye gentlemen..who at sometimes, as well as yourselfe, were destitute of silver.

1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 384 One should not..omit at some~times to eleuate his hart to God.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 24 Yea, the Rascal crue, at sometimes would be for destroying of him.

1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 4 Those mighty Fleets, that have at sometimes, and when rightly governed, rendered her the Terror of the Ocean.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sometimes
释义	sometimesadv. /ˈsʌmtʌɪmz/ Forms: 1500s somtymes, 1500s–1600s somtimes; Scottish1500s sum tymes, 1700s sumtyms; 1500s sometymes, 1500s– sometimes. Etymology: < some pron. 7 + times plural of time n., int., and conj. 1. a. On some occasions; at times; now and then. Cf. sometime adv. 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally whiloma900 whilea1000 stoundmealc1000 stundumOE otherwhileOE umquhile1154 with and withc1175 by stoundsa1225 otherwhilesc1225 umbestound?c1225 umbewhilec1230 then and thenc1275 sometime…sometime1297 umstounda1300 by while13.. over while13.. sometime1340 umbe throwea1350 at timesa1382 now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393 umbwhile1393 eftsoona1398 sometimea1400 by sithesc1400 umbestoundsc1400 from time to (formerly unto) time1423 now and (also or) then1445 ever now and nowa1470 when and whenc1470 occasionallya1475 in timesa1500 whiles?a1500 whilomsa1500 sometimes1526 somewhiles1528 at whiles1540 ever now and then1542 a-whiles1546 somewhiles…, somewhiles1547 at sometimes1548 now and thenc1550 ever and anon1558 by occasions1562 on (also upon) occasion1562 as soon…as soon1581 every now and then (also again)1642 by a time1721 once and a while1765 ever and again1788 periodically1825 in spots1851 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Miii He..sheweth vs somtymes the saft rodde of his swete discipline. 1578 Gosson in Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 77 The Poet which sometimes hath trod awry. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 87 Hither sometimes the King repaires. 1674 D. Brevint Saul & Samuel 213 Just as notable Rogues are hanged and quartered somtimes with their Pardons about their Necks. 1749 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas IV. xii. xi. 218 Three famous physicians, who had the reputation of curing their patients sometimes. 1780 Mirror No. 105 I mean those little lectures on morality, sometimes known by the name of scandal. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. x. 565 Sometimes he spoke so haughtily that the rustics..were provoked into making insolent replies. 1884 R. W. Church Bacon iii. 60 He liked..to generalise in shrewd and sometimes cynical epigrams. b. With a correlative (see quots. and cf. sometime adv. 1b, 1c). ΚΠ (a) 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. vi. sig. R2 Sometimes she song, as lowd as larke in ayre, Sometimes she laught [etc.]. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) iii. iii. 19 Sometimes her head on one side, some another. View more context for this quotation] 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 87 A streame of water, sometimes so broad as the Thames at London, but other sometimes neere dried vp. 1678 J. Bunyan Pilgrim's Progress 42 Somtimes sighingly and somtimes comfortably. View more context for this quotation 1729 W. Law Serious Call x. 154 To be sometimes chaste and modest, and sometimes not. 1776 Trial Maha Rajah Nundocomar for Forgery 22/2 Sometimes he wrote the bonds himself in Nagree, sometimes in Bengal, but always signed them with his own hand. 1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 265 Sometimes a wild-hair'd Mænad; Sometimes a Faun with torches; And sometimes.. the divine, Belov'd Iacchus. 1901 Cyclists' Touring Club Gaz. Oct. 389 Running downhill, sometimes with, and sometimes without, a brake. (b)1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. vii. 294 Sometimes he bringeth not home slaues enough to satisfie the merchants: and otherwhiles they are constrained to awaite there a whole yeere.1674 J. Ray Catal. Fishes 107 Sometimes they kill them by striking them cross the snout with a pole, otherwhiles they shoot them.1736 R. Ainsworth Thes. Linguæ Latinæ I. (at cited word) They are some~times of this opinion, and at other times of another.a1822 P. B. Shelley Peter Bell III ii, in Poet. Wks. (?1840) 239/1 Sometimes The Devil is a gentleman; At others a bard [etc.].1897 Dublin Rev. Oct. 394 Sometimes the points are definitive, otherwhiles the writer leaves himself liberty for a different arrangement.(c)1602 B. Jonson Poetaster ii. ii. sig. D^v Sometimes froward, and then frowning, Sometimes sickish, and then swowning. View more context for this quotation1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 242 Somtimes on firm ground.., then soaring on main wing. View more context for this quotation1816 P. B. Shelley Alastor 34 Sometimes it fell Among the moss... Now on the polished stones It danced. c. Used adjectivally to denote ‘occasional’. Cf. sometime adv. 1d. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adjective] > occasional stoundmealc1400 otherwhile1589 occasional1611 sometimesa1945 a1945 E. R. Eddison Mezentian Gate (1958) v. 44 Nor did they find wholesome nor comfortable..his sometimes flashings into unforeknowable violence. 1974 Publishers Weekly 11 Feb. 56/3 Brando's sometimes generosity, his idealism. 1977 Rolling Stone 13 Jan. 36/2 Srouji confessed her entire FBI history, starting with her role in the Sixties as a sometimes informant. †2. a. = sometime adv. 2a, 2b Obsolete.Frequently from c1580 to c1650. ΚΠ 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Matrimony sig. V vvv j b And S. Peter saith in that same place.., that holy matrones dyd sometymes decke them selues, not with golde and syluer: but in puttynge theyr whole hope in God. 1576 G. Gascoigne Complaynt of Phylomene in Steele Glas sig. K.iiii^v In Athens reignde somtimes, A king of worthy fame. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. vii. 347 There is at this day to be seene a board belonging sometimes to Tullius Cicero. 1642 D. Rogers Naaman Ep. Ded. sig. A3 The blessed lights of his Ministers (who sometimes shined in our Sphere, but now in glory). 1665 J. Webb Vindic. Stone-Heng (1725) 157 The Place where Habor..was some~times betrayed, imprisoned, and executed. †b. = sometime adv. 2d. Obsolete.Frequently from c1600 to c1650. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > [adverb] > once or at some former time yetOE oncec1175 somewhilec1200 sometime1297 once upon a timec1380 one while1470 sometimes1563 sometimes1577 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus v. xi, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 347 Probus sometimes a Consul was chiefe gouernour of Italy. 1592 in J. Morris Troubles Catholic Forefathers (1877) (modernized text) 3rd Ser. 37 John Thomas, sometimes Bishop Goldwell's man, died in the Counter. a1620 M. Fotherby Atheomastix (1622) ii. vii. §2. 262 Thebes in Ægypt, and Orchomenus, sometimes two rich and populous Cities, but now reduced. 1650 T. Bayly Worcesters Apophthegmes 26 An old ruinated, but sometimes a most famous monastery. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xxxiv. 340 One Games, sometimes School-Master of the Choristers in Magdalen College. †c. = sometime adv. 2e. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [adverb] > formerly owning sometime1423 sometimes1612 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist v. v. sig. M3^v The goods, sometimes the Orphanes, that the Brethren Bought with their Siluer pence. View more context for this quotation †d. = sometime adv. 2f. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. ii. 54 Farewell old Gaunt, thy sometimes brothers wife..must end her life. View more context for this quotation 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. v. 75 Leaue, To looke vpon my sometimes roiall maisters face. View more context for this quotation 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. ii. 70 Sparta, where that sometimes famous Citty of Lacedemon flourished. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher I. 72 Excelled only by her sometimes tutoress. †3. at sometimes, = sense 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > sometimes or occasionally whiloma900 whilea1000 stoundmealc1000 stundumOE otherwhileOE umquhile1154 with and withc1175 by stoundsa1225 otherwhilesc1225 umbestound?c1225 umbewhilec1230 then and thenc1275 sometime…sometime1297 umstounda1300 by while13.. over while13.. sometime1340 umbe throwea1350 at timesa1382 now and again (also anon, eft, now)a1393 umbwhile1393 eftsoona1398 sometimea1400 by sithesc1400 umbestoundsc1400 from time to (formerly unto) time1423 now and (also or) then1445 ever now and nowa1470 when and whenc1470 occasionallya1475 in timesa1500 whiles?a1500 whilomsa1500 sometimes1526 somewhiles1528 at whiles1540 ever now and then1542 a-whiles1546 somewhiles…, somewhiles1547 at sometimes1548 now and thenc1550 ever and anon1558 by occasions1562 on (also upon) occasion1562 as soon…as soon1581 every now and then (also again)1642 by a time1721 once and a while1765 ever and again1788 periodically1825 in spots1851 1548 T. Cooper Bibliotheca Eliotæ (rev. ed.) Aliquoties, at sometymes. 1584 T. Lodge Alarum (Shaks. Soc.) 60 Manye gentlemen..who at sometimes, as well as yourselfe, were destitute of silver. 1626 T. Hawkins tr. N. Caussin Holy Court I. 384 One should not..omit at some~times to eleuate his hart to God. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 24 Yea, the Rascal crue, at sometimes would be for destroying of him. View more context for this quotation 1719 W. Wood Surv. Trade (ed. 2) 4 Those mighty Fleets, that have at sometimes, and when rightly governed, rendered her the Terror of the Ocean. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.1526
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