| 单词 | by indirection |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby indirection a. Indirect movement or action; a devious or circuitous course to some end; round-about means or method. by indirection, by indirect means, indirectly. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > hint or covert suggestion > [adverb] by indirection1603 involvedly1624 allusively1656 suggestingly1840 hintedly1846 suggestively1859 hintingly1892 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet ii. i. 65 Thus sir do wee..By indirections, finde directions forth. 1634 J. Ford Chron. Hist. Perkin Warbeck iii. sig. F4 If King Iames By any indirection should perceiue My comming nere your Court, I doubt the issue Of my imployment. 1673 tr. E. de Refuge Art of Complaisance 73 These were the effects of real merit and virtue, which still sheds a luster on the rest, and not of indirection. 1856 R. W. Emerson Eng. Traits xiii. 211 Oxford also has its merits... Whether in course or by indirection,..education according to the English notion of it is arrived at. 1879 J. Burroughs Locusts & Wild Honey 80 The weather is..to be..understood, not by rule, but by subtle signs and indirections. 1888 Q. Rev. Oct. 407 As is always the case with good critics, Mr. Arnold worked more by indirection and suggestion than by sheer delivery of judgment. < as lemmas |
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