单词 | unobservedly |
释义 | unobservedlyadv. Without being observed; imperceptibly. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adverb] > not seen unobserved?1495 unobservedly1612 1612 J. Cotta Short Discouerie Dangers Ignorant Practisers Physicke i. i. 4 Many diseases..grow so commonly, so easily rooted, and vnobseruedly confirmed in mens bodies, that oft they can neuer haue end. 1656 Ld. Orrery Parthenissa V. iii. i. 12 Nicomedes the more unobservedly to gaze on his new Conqueror, had retir'd himself into the throng. 1702 S. Patrick Comm. Judges xvi. 1 He went thither secretly and unobservedly, in the dusk of the evening. 1795 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 85 174 A single instrument, having an excess of light, in which the irradiation may unobservedly extend further than in weaker telescopes. 1861 T. Wright Ess. Archæol. vii. 107 Great numbers of..tumuli have been destroyed unobservedly in the various processes of agriculture. 1884 Manch. Examiner 20 Aug. 5/1 A train came upon him unobservedly, and the poor fellow was literally cut to pieces. 1912 R. L. Herman Open Door for Singers viii. 112 This constant forcing of the voice just a few vibrations upward beyond the expected, tires it unobservedly. 2012 I. Despot Balkan Wars vi. 174 Lieutenant Votsis..unobservedly entered the Salonika harbor with his torpedo boat. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.1612 |
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