| 单词 | by haphazard |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby haphazard P2. by haphazard: = at haphazard at Phrases 1. Now rare. ΚΠ 1569By happe hazard [see sense A. 1]. 1574 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. Epist. St. Paule to Galathians iii. f. 113v We do now know that is not by haphazard that the Gospel hath bin preached, but bycause it was Gods will to vtter the infinite riches of his goodnesse towardes vs. a1704 J. Locke Conduct of Understanding §25 in Posthumous Wks. (1706) 81 'Tis an unreasonable Homage paid to Prepossession, whereby we shew a Reverence..[to] what by hap-hazard we chance to light on. 1849 Amer. Rev. Oct. 352/2 The miles never was measured down here, and folks call the distances mostly by hap-hazard, I judge. 1902 G. Gissing in Fortn. Rev. 72 358 I should not have such intense pleasure as comes to me now and then by haphazard. 1952 L. Strauss Persecution & Art of Writing iii. 86 The Mishneh Torah..speaks of the basic truths only briefly and allusively (though by allusions approximating clear pronouncements) and by haphazard. < as lemmas |
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