单词 | subobscurely |
释义 | subobscurelyadv. rare after 17th cent. Somewhat darkly or obscurely. Later chiefly in technical use. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adverb] > somewhat subobscurely1624 1624 J. Donne Deuotions ix. 218 The booke of Nature, where though subobscurely..thou hast expressed thine own Image. 1651 P. Armin tr. F. Glisson et al. Treat. Rickets xxii. 242 The loosness and softness of the parts, the weakness and languidness, the slothfulness and numness..do in a remiss degree, and subobscurely yield advantage to circumspection. 1820 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 66 The preference of bohea to black-strap..is sub-obscurely adumbrated. 1951 Amer. Jrnl. Bot. 38 63/2 Ligule oblanceolate-oblong, under 1 cm. long, at apex truncate or barely emarginate sometimes subobscurely three-denticulate. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1624 |
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