单词 | southernly |
释义 | southernlyadj. 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. 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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