| 单词 |
divinely |
| 释义 |
▪ I. † diˈvinely, a.
[f. prec. adj. + -ly1.]
Divine.
c1400Test. Love iii. (R.) Philosophy is knowing of deuinely and manly things ioyned with study of good liuing. 1530Rastell Bk. Purgat. ii. xi, The infinyte dyvynely Substaunce.
▪ II. divinely, adv.|dɪˈvaɪnlɪ|
[f. divine a. + -ly2.]
In a divine manner or way.
1. By or as by the agency or power of God.
1594Spenser Amoretti lxi, As she is, divinely wrought, And of the brood of Angels hevenly borne. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacr. ii. vi. §2 Whatever comes under Divine knowledge, may be Divinely revealed. a1707Beveridge Serm. I. xviii. (R.) In his divinely-inspired judgment. 1850Tennyson In Mem. lxiv. 2 As some divinely gifted man. 1876J. Parker Paracl. i. iii. 23 If the Bible is divinely inspired, it follows that it is divinely authoritative.
2. As or like God; in a godlike manner; with an excellence or perfection more than human. Also in trivial use: excellently, extremely well.
1582J. Hester Secr. Phiorav. iii. iv. 9 Because this composition worketh diuinely, I called it Angelico. 1585T. Washington tr. Nicholay's Voy. iv. xxiii. 139 Cleere and fayre fountaines dyvinely wrought. 1667Milton P.L. ix. 489 Shee fair, divinely fair, fit love for Gods. 1728Young Odes to King Wks. 1757 I. 173 Its stream divinely clear, and strong. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall 35 An elegant young man..who danced a minuet divinely. 1832Tennyson Dream Fair Women 87 A daughter of the Gods, divinely tall And most divinely fair. 1927L. Mayer Just between us Girls vii. 43 Honestly those nobilities can make love divinely. 1928E. Waugh Decline & Fall i. ix. 98 He plays just too divinely. 1929E. Bowen Last Sept. xvii. 227 You do dance divinely. 1930H. Wolfe Uncelestial City iii. 124 My dears, too grim, too psycho-analytically ungodly, and altogether too divinely Jim.
†3. In a holy or pious manner. Obs.
1594Shakes. Rich. III, iii. vii. 62 He is..with two right reuerend Fathers Diuinely bent to Meditation. 1595― John ii. i. 237 This right hand, whose protection Is most diuinely vow'd vpon the right Of him it holds. 1682Norris Hierocles 8 They proceed from a divinely disposed mind.
†4. After the manner of divinity. Obs.
1607Topsell Serpents (1658) 591, I purpose not to follow these things Philosophically..but rather Divinely. |
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