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单词 visibly
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visiblyadv.

Brit. /ˈvɪzᵻbli/, U.S. /ˈvɪzəbli/
Forms: Middle English visibely, Middle English visibilly, Middle English–1500s vysybly, 1500s visybly, Middle English– visibly (1600s vissiblie); also Middle English visablelyche.
Etymology: < visible adj. + -ly suffix2.
1. In a visible manner (†or form); so as to be visible to the eye or sight.Passing insensibly into 2.
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the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > visibility > [adverb]
visiblyc1380
in semblancea1400
perceivablyc1526
seeably1548
observably1640
perceptibly1644
discernibly1645
perceivedly1659
viewably1680
distinguishably1704
perceptible1755
traceably1855
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 522 Þat same body and blood invisibily, and not þe same visibely.
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) xvii. 79 Þai growe ilk a ȝere visibilly, so þat þe smale waxez grete.
c1420 Chron. Vilod. 2141 As þus visablelyche to hurre modur he dude aper.
1484 W. Caxton tr. Subtyl Historyes & Fables Esope xii The goddesse Venus vysybly shewed her self to me.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. OOvii Somtyme as it were an angell of lyght: somtyme visibly, somtyme fantastically.
1612 W. Colson Gen. Treasury Advt. A iij b The other faults escaped in printing, or figures not visibly printed are..corrected with the pen.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) ii. vii. 4 The Table wherein all my thoughts Are visibly Character'd, and engrau'd. View more context for this quotation
1617 J. Taylor Three Weekes Observ. in Wks. (1630) iii. 87/2 If it were possible that the hand of mortall men..could visibly set forth the magnificent glory of the immortal Creator.
1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. i. Concl. 136 A moral Scheme of Government then, is visibly established.
1781 W. Cowper Truth 390 Solyma's interior shrine, Where..Dwelt visibly the light-creating God.
1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna xii. xxxiii. 266 Down that mighty stream..The boat fled visibly—three nights and days.
1825 W. Scott Betrothed vi, in Tales Crusaders I. 107 The mouth visibly arranged itself into a smile of inexpressible sweetness.
1857 W. K. Loftus Trav. Chaldæa & Susiana 270 Traces of which were still visibly adhering to many of the tablets.
2. So as to be clearly evident, manifest, or perceptible; to an extent which can be (readily) seen or observed; evidently, plainly; manifestly, obviously.
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society > communication > manifestation > manifestness > [adverb]
couthlyc900
sutelichec900
openlyOE
witterlyc1175
kithlya1300
witnessfullyc1374
evidentlya1382
plainlya1382
graithc1394
eberlya1400
express14..
manifest1431
patently1441
manifestlyc1475
evident?1520
grossly1526
apparently1533
clear1550
apparent1565
clearly1569
notoriously1589
plain1590
perspicuously1592
perspectively1598
transparently1617
liquidlya1631
visibly1631
obviously1638
fairly1655
perspiculously1661
remarkably1666
squarely1860
1631 W. Gouge Gods Three Arrowes iii. §81. 337 God hath oft visibly shewed himselfe by extraordinary meanes to fight for his.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding i. iii. 17 God, having..made the Practice thereof..visibly beneficial to all, with whom the vertuous Man has to do.
1702 Clarendon's Hist. Rebellion I. i. 7 The Envy..was visibly the cause of the Murther.
1713 G. Berkeley Three Dialogues Hylas & Philonous i. 38 It being too visibly absurd to hold, that Pain or Pleasure can be in an un-perceiving Substance.
1719 D. Defoe Life Robinson Crusoe 323 I saw my Deliverance indeed visibly put into my Hands.
1839 G. P. R. James Louis XIV III. 308 A war which had been visibly overhanging them for more than two years.
1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. v. 400 The cardinals were visibly afraid of the position which had been taken by the French king.
1885 ‘Mrs. Alexander’ At Bay iv. 64 Lambert was visibly relieved, and his daughter reflected her father's mood.
3. By actual sight. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > [adverb]
by sight1297
visually1448
visibly1600
1600 E. Blount tr. G. F. di Conestaggio Hist. Uniting Portugall to Castill 314 He cast anchor at Saint Sebastian, beginning visiblie to finde, that the Iland was no lesse fortified then had beene described vnto them.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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