| 单词 | by fits and spasms |
| 释义 | > as lemmasby fits and spasms c. Often in by fits (and starts): by irregular impulses or periods of action, at varying intervals, fitfully, spasmodically. Also more rarely, †at, †upon, fits, by fits and girds (obsolete exc. dialect), †by fits and spasms, or †by fits and turns; †by halves and fits. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adverb] > intermittently by (formerly also at) startsc1422 startmeal?c1422 off and on1535 every otherwhile1542 by, or in, snatches1577 by fits and turns1583 by halves and fits1583 one time with another1591 fit-meal1593 by fits and spurts1605 planetarily?1609 scatteredly1612 startinglya1616 by snaps1631 intermittingly1654 from space to space1658 on and off1668 at (by) intervals1744 cessantly1746 by spells1788 fitfully1792 by fits and spasms1797 everylikea1800 intermittently1800 intermittedly1829 interjectionally1837 jerkily1839 at seasons1850 sporadically1852 parenthetically1860 spasmodically1877 snatchily1880 variously1892 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie vii. 39 He doth not thinges by fittes as Creatures doe but he continueth alwayes in one will. 1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey 72 A lazy people, that worke but by fits. a1617 S. Hieron Bargaine of Salt in Wks. (1620) II. 489 Vpon fits you shall haue them talke like angels, and yet..are deuils indeede. 1627 R. Sanderson Ten Serm. 306 If thou hast these things only by fits and starts. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi viii. §2. 407 The Swallow..sleepeth but by halves and fits (as we say) which is no sound kinde of rest. 1650 T. Fuller Pisgah-sight of Palestine i. ii. 5 That froward people worshipped him by fits and girds. 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. i. 25 Without any saliency or leaping, without any fits or starts in its Progression. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 303 To suppose that Orpheus had by Fits and Turns, been of different Humours. 1782 F. Burney Early Jrnls. & Lett. (2012) V. 35 Let me murmur as I will by fits, I would not, if I could, change your destination. 1785 T. Jefferson Corr. in Wks. (1859) I. 426 No particular State, acting by fits and starts, can harass the trade of France, Holland, &c. 1797 E. Burke Three Mem. French Affairs 43 The non-payment..is only by fits and spasms. 1805 R. Southey Madoc i. x. 99 As the flashes of the central fire At fits arose. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxiii. 39 Breaking into song by fits . View more context for this quotation 1862 Mrs. H. Wood Mrs. Halliburton's Troubles I. xiv. 163 Jane was..more hopeful by fits and starts than continuously so. 1884 R. Holland Gloss. Words County of Chester (1886) (at cited word) ‘The clock strikes by fits and gurds.’ < as lemmas |
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