| 单词 |
modernly |
| 释义 |
modernly, adv.|ˈmɒdənlɪ|
[f. modern a. + -ly2.]
1. In modern times. Now rare.
1605Verstegan Dec. Intell. ii. (1628) 54 The honour as well antiently as modernely of that great and noble nation. 1632Lithgow Trav. iii. 87 Mount Ida, of old was called Phelorita,..but modernely Madura. 1756W. Toldervy Hist. 2 Orphans II. 69 With deliberations, shorter than those modernly used by the States General, a treaty of peace was agreed upon. 1856Ulster Jrnl. Archæol. IV. 244 Bonaght..was specially due on land modernly held by sorren tenure.
2. In a modern manner; after the fashion of modern times.
1743Lond. Mag. 35 To be modernly polite, introduces Extravagance. 1868Morn. Star 29 June, The Latin original reads to-day most modernly. 1887Harper's Mag. July 315 Most modernly American as it is, it has a flavor one tastes in travels of old times.
3. Comb., as modernly-armed, modernly written adjs.
1894Westm. Gaz. 15 Oct. 5/1 The well-drilled and modernly-armed force which China can put in the field. 1905Daily Chron. 28 Dec. 8/3 A modernly-written play. |
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