单词 | tacitly |
释义 | tacitlyadv. 1. Without speaking; silently; quietly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > inaudibility > [adverb] > silently stillyc1000 stilla1225 softlyc1330 whistlya1400 silentlya1425 coylyc1475 quietly1488 still1535 huishtly1548 whishtly1548 mutely1587 silentially1627 statuelike1640 tacitly1643 noiselessly1794 soundlessly1837 soundless1844 mouse-like1874 quietlike1909 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > loss or lack of voice > [adverb] silentlya1425 mutely1587 tacitly1643 voicelessly1829 1643 W. Prynne Romes Master-peece (ed. 2) 24 The secular Iesuites have bought all this street, and have reduced it into a quadrangle, where a Iesuiticall Colledge is tacitly built. 1751 Earl of Orrery Remarks Swift (1752) 88 Here a reflection naturally occurs, which..leads me tacitly to admire, and confess the ways of Providence. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt I. i. 24 To be no longer tacitly pitied by her neighbours for her lack of money. 2. Without stating or expressing it; by implication: cf. tacit adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > hidden or indirect meaning > [adverb] sidelings?a1400 covertlyc1400 impliedlyc1449 by implicationa1575 implicatelya1575 implicatively1579 over the shoulder1596 interpretatively1602 implicitly1610 indirectly1613 insinuatively1617 enfoldedly1624 involvedly1624 tacitly1635 tacidly1640 by interpretation1692 adumbratively1753 inexplicitly1776 interpretively1867 1635 Earl of Strafford Let. 5 Oct. (1739) I. 471 Not tacitely or by way of Consequence, but even in express and binding Terms. 1660 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. III. i. 30 He tacitely implyd, that the rest of mankind were but beasts. 1735 G. Berkeley Def. Free-thinking in Math. §21 There are certain points tacitly admitted by mathematicians. 1825 J. R. McCulloch Princ. Polit. Econ. ii. iv. 179 If, as M. Sismondi has tacitly assumed, the machines cost nothing. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < adv.1635 |
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