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单词 southernly
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southernlyadj.

Brit. /ˈsʌðnli/, U.S. /ˈsəðərnli/
Forms: see southern adj. and n.1 and -ly suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: southern adj., -ly suffix1.
Etymology: < southern adj. + -ly suffix1, probably partly as alteration of southerly adj. Compare southernly adv., and also northernly adj., easternly adj., westernly adj.
1. Situated in or towards the south; (also) tending in a southerly direction. Cf. southerly adj.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adjective]
southernOE
southwardOE
meridionalc1386
austral1398
southly1440
meridian?a1475
meridialc1540
southerly1556
southernly1591
southwardlyc1612
austrian1634
austrine1635
south'ard1671
fore-south1686
southwards1838
1591 A. Colynet True Hist. Ciuill Warres France ix. 526 An Arsenall to subdue all those Southernly Prouinces lying vppon the Mediterran Seas.
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises iii. ii. viii. f. 183v If the declination be Southernly.
1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick ix. lxxviii. 265 The External Causes, are..Southernly weather, or infectious Air.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 218 The Town from the Southernly situation is at this day Southanton.
1728 T. Rowe Lives Anc. & Illustrious Men 72 Messenia, the most Western and Southernly Part of Peloponnesus, was a very fine Country.
1772 J. Marshall Travels 1768–70 III. iv. 132 The richest products which Russia exports are those of the most southernly provinces, particularly the Ukraine.
1837 J. Cooper Warwickshire Hunt 171 On being headed he took a southernly direction.
1884 Cent. Mag. Jan. 439/1 These were bartered for the superabundant bread and meat of the southernly colonies.
1916 H. H. Powers Things Men fight For xi. 202 The third route was from the southern end of Lake Baikal, the most southernly point on the Trans-Siberian.
1986 G. Briggs & F. Taylor Cambr. Photogr. Atlas Planets 141 The transition between the southernly cratered unit and the northernly plains unit.
2005 R. Dallaire & B. Beardsley Shake Hands with Devil xiii. 378 The RPF..advanced from the north and east and in a large southernly hook.
2. Of a wind: blowing from the south; = southerly adj. 1. Now somewhat rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > weather and the atmosphere > weather > wind > [adjective] > from specific point of compass
southeOE
northeOE
northerneOE
easternOE
southernOE
south-easternOE
north-easternOE
westernOE
south-westernOE
southena1325
north-east1379
east-north-easta1398
east-south-easta1398
north-north-easta1398
north-westa1398
south-southeasta1398
south-westc1400
south-easta1425
nor'-westa1500
south-southwesta1522
north-westera1525
northerlya1544
southerly1550
south-southeast?1560
south-easterly1577
north-north-west1601
subprincipal1601
southernly1610
north-westerly1611
easternly1614
northernly1632
westwardly1653
northwardly1654
north-easterly1686
southwardly1693
southwesterly1703
eastling1725
south-southeasterly1803
westland1818
south-southwesterly1822
north-western1829
north-north-easterly1831
southwesterly1883
nor-nor-east1891
1610 S. H. tr. Hippocrates Whole Aphorismes iii. xi. 39 The spring much raining and the wind southernly.
1670 London Gaz. No. 529 The Southernly winds have this week brought many ships into this Port.
1743 tr. F. Serao Nat. Hist. Mount Vesuvius i. 46 It had certainly obscured all the W. Coast of Naples, if the brisk southernly Winds had not stopp'd its Progress.
1789 N. Cutting Diary 7 Oct. in T. Jefferson Papers (1958) XV. 496 Came out by the Pier-head, with a fine Southernly Breeze.
1803 Visct. Strangford tr. L. V. de Camoens Poems 68 Thy branches still wave to the southernly sigh.
1865 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia V. xviii. xiii. 330 Wind a mere lull, but southernly if any.
1906 Med. World Sept. 371/1 You do not mention the relative frequency of your southernly winds and heavy rains.
1987 R. Hall Kisses of Enemy (1989) 285 A southernly buster was needed to gust them [sc. leaves] away at a single blast back up among the branches where they belonged.
3. Designating people inhabiting or originating from the southern part of a country or region; (also) characteristic or typical of such people.
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [adjective] > southern people
southernOE
southOE
southernly1620
south-east1959
1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 136 More Sowthernly people..vpon extraordinarie businesses driuen to the towne.
1827 A. Marten Stanley Tales I. 256 ‘When a boy I heard much of southernly courtesy and virtue,’ said the general to the duke.
1931 C. Pavese Let. 15 Oct. in M. Pietralunga Cesare Pavese & Anthony Chiuminatto (2007) 149 I'm waiting for the guy from Calabria..and high time indeed it'll be to hear him talk in a Southernly way of my Piedmontese.
1935 F. Talbot Saint among Savages xi. 285 He knew enough of Huron and Iroquois to converse in the dialect of these more southernly peoples.
1998 Tampa Tribune (Florida) (Nexis) 15 Apr. (Sports section) 1 His ‘yes ma'ams’ and ‘thank yous’ fit nicely with the Georgia native's southernly manner.

Derivatives

ˈsouthernliness n. rare the state of being situated in or quality of being from the south.
ΚΠ
1850 J. Ogilvie Imperial Dict. Southernliness, State of being southerly.
2009 www.rarwriter.com 26 Aug. (O.E.D. Archive) Do you feel in any way by your own self-definition, your ‘southernliness’?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

southernlyadv.

Brit. /ˈsʌðnli/, U.S. /ˈsəðərnli/
Forms: see southern adj. and n.1 and -ly suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: southern adj., -ly suffix2.
Etymology: < southern adj. + -ly suffix2, probably partly as alteration of southerly adv. Compare southernly adj., and also northernly adv., easternly adv., westernly adv.
In the south; towards the south, in a southerly direction; (also) from the direction of the south (rare). Cf. southerly adv.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > South > [adverb]
southeOE
southrighteOE
southwardeOE
southwardseOE
southenOE
downwarda1387
south'ard1485
south side1489
southlya1552
downwards1577
southerly1577
southwardly1579
southernly1594
south-by1762
a-south1807
south-away1816
downbound1880
southbound1891
1594 T. Blundeville Exercises vi. xxx. f. 300v Euery degree of any of the southerne signes riseth Southernly.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 60 These Northernely are seene, which they attribute to the liuing: those Southernely are hidden.
1636 H. Blount Voy. Levant 72 Winds which in those parts..in Summer, sit Northernly, and in Winter Southernly.
a1657 W. Burton Comm. Antoninus his Itinerary (1658) 120 The Military Port way hence tending somewhat more Southernly.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature I. xxv. 348 The streams of light seem to shoot southernly, even up to the zenith in northern countries.
1808 Belfast Monthly Mag. Nov. 190/2 We visited the second crater, the sulphureous smoke of which driven southernly, rendered it impracticable to attempt approaching the large one.
1867 G. E. Fryer Hand-bk. Brit. Burma 253 A line drawn on the right bank of the Bassein river northernly and southernly at a distance of 400 yards from high-water mark.
1903 S. Atlantic Q. Oct. 306 The negro problem is a national problem, however Southernly located.
1975 H. J. Story Let. 31 May in R. A. Cauto & C. S. Guthrie Making Democracy work Better (1999) iv. 115 When the wind is blowing southernly a distinct smell of these chemicals can be detected for three miles.
2005 San Francisco Chron. (Nexis) 30 Sept. f1 The more northerly a bird has nested, the more southernly it'll migrate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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