单词 | successively |
释义 | successivelyadv. 1. By successive stages (of increase or decrease); †by degrees. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > [adverb] > in stages successivelya1425 by sequels1477 by degrees?1566 progressively1620 degreeingly1628 the world > relative properties > quantity > increase in quantity, amount, or degree > [adverb] > by stages or steps successively1715 incrementally1828 stepwise1955 a1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 58 When þe pacientes felen þamself more heuy..þan is þe flwyng ouer mych; wherfor it is alsone successyuely to be restreyned and turned away. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VI f. cvv A pestilent humor, which successiuely alitle and litle corrupteth all the membres. 1620 Horæ Subseciuæ 262 To doe that at once, which must bee done successiuely, is an argument of a rash, and intemperate man. 1715 J. T. Desaguliers tr. N. Gauger Fires Improv'd 23 The Air goes into the Hollows, is warm'd, and then successively warms the whole Air of the Room. 1743 W. Emerson Doctr. Fluxions Pref. p. vii What a continual and successively variable Velocity can produce. 1827 M. Faraday Chem. Manip. xx. 532 Now and then the stoppers of bottles become fixed.., in which case means of loosening them, successively increasing in power..must be resorted to. 1862 W. A. Miller Elements Chem. (ed. 2) III. iii. §1. 152 The higher terms of the series becoming successively more viscid and oily. 2. In succession. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb] aboutOE by rewc1225 by ordera1382 sue?a1425 in orderc1425 successively1439 suingly1453 seriatly?a1475 consequently1477 seriatim1495 in sequencea1575 successive1593 succeedingly1602 consequentially1607 subalternately1632 successfully1651 epassyterotically1652 consequent1692 serially1841 consecutively1847 solid1938 1439 in F. J. Furnivall Fifty Earliest Eng. Wills (1882) 114 The wardeyns of Seynt Austyns chirch..sussessiffly beyng. 1462 Rolls of Parl. V. 489/1 Henry the Vth..and Henry the VIth..successevely Kynges of Englond. 1503 Rolls of Parl. VI. 522/2 They..and their successours, and the successours of every of them, shall have successyvelye for ever, lyke auctorite. 1521 in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. I. 258 [He] opennyd the boke..and begynning the prohem, redde therof successyvely v. lefes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. x. sig. Y2 Fiue sonnes he left begotten of one wife, All which successiuely by turnes did rayne. 1617 F. Moryson Itinerary i. 170 It was subject to the Emperour Otho the first, by right of his wife, and successively to the Emperours. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xxxviii. 245 Everlasting Fire,..(into which men may be cast successively one after another for ever). a1684 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1671 (1955) III. 570 The famous Play, cald the Siege of Granada two days acted successively. 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 400. ⁋9 The Disappointment of four or five Passions which she has successively had for different Men. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 356 Diocletian was successively promoted to the government of Mæsia, the honours of the consulship, and the important command of the guards of the palace. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xiii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 298 The lad..fetched an earthen jar and a horn cup,..and offered them successively to the lady and to the boy. 1854 D. Brewster More Worlds x. 163 If we suppose ourselves placed successively on Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune, the Sun will appear smaller and smaller. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ix. §1. 593 He became successively Solicitor and Attorney-General. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > order, sequence, or succession > continuity or uninterruptedness > [adverb] togetherc1290 bedenea1300 continuallyc1305 an-end?1440 contunely1447 successively1531 jointlyc1540 continuedly1559 unend1559 durably?1567 outright1579 continuately1601 uninterruptedly1665 constantly1682 unintermittedly1693 unbrokenly1850 unintermittently1875 1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. ii. sig. Bi And so successiuely one kynge gouerned all the people of Israell, unto the time of Roboaz. 1548 Hall's Vnion (title page) Beginnyng at the tyme of kyng Henry the fowerth, the first aucthor of this deuision, and so successiuely proceadyng to the reigne of..kyng Henry the eight. 1627 W. Bedell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Literary Men (1843) (Camden) 136 It begins much about the Conquest..and continues successively to Calixtus the 3rd. 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. Pref. 5 And there [i.e. at Oxford] the excercise of Printing hath continued successively to this day. 1709 R. Steele Tatler No. 107. ⁋14 Repeat this every Day for a Month successively. 1748 G. Washington Jrnl. 7 Apr. in Writ. (1889) I. 5 Raind successively all last night. c1790 Encycl. Brit. (1797) VI. 739/2 For 18 years successively. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > occurrence > [adverb] > whensoever or eventually yetc1400 as and when1565 successively1600 in the successa1676 ultimately1818 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne i. xxiv. 6 What to this howre successiuely is donne Was full of perill. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 27 And all that there-vpon successiuely befell. 1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 277 Which they..were not long adoing, as we shall successively relate. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the future or time to come > succession or following in time > [adverb] > as a successor or by succession (of persons) in his steadc1230 successively1597 society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > right to succeed to title, position, or estate > succession > [adverb] successively1597 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vii. 135 Not as Protector..But as successiuelie from bloud to bloud. View more context for this quotation 1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 330 So thou the garland wearst successiuely . View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > prosperity > [adverb] > prosperously or successfully selthelikea1325 luckily1482 felicitously1539 successively1582 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > [adverb] wellOE successively1582 successfully1594 indefectibly1837 1582 A. Munday Discouerie E. Campion sig. F3 Howe all thinges went successiuelie foreward. 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 54/2 Beinge verye successivelye cured of Mr. Martel, Chyrurgiane to the Kinge. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 62 Any exploit, how successively or prosperously soever managed. 1683 Bp. W. Kennett tr. Erasmus Encomium Moriæ (1709) 33 A battle shall be more successively fought by serving men..than by the most accomplished philosophers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adv.a1425 |
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