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单词 that way inclined
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that way inclined
b. figurative indicating the content or nature of a person's opinions, preferences, talents, etc., or the direction of a course of events or likely outcome of a situation or action. Usually in noun phrases used adverbially, esp. that way. Now chiefly in that way inclined: inclined towards something; also (euphemistic) homosexual.With reference to person's opinions or preferences, frequently in predicative use: see Phrases 7g(b).
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the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > [noun] > that way or condition
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual
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a1516 H. Medwall Godely Interlude Fulgens i. sig. b.ivv A wyll ye take it that way My lady I ment not so parde.
1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. f. ccxlv/2 For the duke of Lancastre wolde haue had me for his sonne the erle of Derby, and the erle of Foiz enclyned rather that waye than to you.
1602 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor iii. ii. 71 My liking goes not that way.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xi. 20 O that way madnes lies, Let me shun that. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) iii. i. 386 He was not enclin'd that way . View more context for this quotation
a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Lovers Progres i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Iii4v/1 Leon. You are Poeticall. Mal. Something given that way.
1652 J. Howell tr. A. Giraffi Exact Hist. Late Revol. Naples (new ed.) ii. 90 Three Brothers were detected to have a Design that way.
1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 108. ¶7 Finding his Genius did not lie that Way.
1858 A. Trollope Three Clerks II. x. 227 You must not compare me with them... They are patterns of excellence. I am all the other way.
1861 T. Hughes Tom Brown at Oxf. I. x. 163 Both ‘smalls’ and ‘greats’ are sufficiently distant to be altogether ignored if we are that way inclined.
1882 J. H. Blunt Reformation Church of Eng. II. 126 Foxe, whose evidence is often one way and his assertions the other.
1916 A. Bennett These Twain xx. 518 ‘He simply hates doing a thing straight off.’ ‘Yes, he is rather that way inclined.’
1954 Manch. Guardian 20 May 2/3 To make light of it and simply to say ‘He is that way inclined. He likes doing that and why should he not?’ is a complete perversion of the doctrine of tolerance.
a1960 E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) vii. 42 The Greeks, or most of them, were that way inclined, and to omit it is to omit the mainstay of Athenian society.
1991 Sun 13 June 1/1 You could tell by the way he walked and talked he was that way inclined.
2002 Digital Photogr. made Easy No. 12. 68/3 There is a 10-second timer for taking photos of yourself if you are that way inclined.
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