| 单词 |
wonderfully |
| 释义 |
wonderfully, adv.|ˈwʌndəfʊlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a wonderful manner.
1. So as to excite wonder; † miraculously; to a wonderful degree or extent; marvellously, astonishingly, surprisingly: often passing into a mere intensive = amazingly well or much; extraordinarily, exceedingly.
a1300E.E. Psalter xliv. [xlv]. 6 Þy pouste shal laden þe wonderfulliche. 13..Cursor M. 11424 (Gött.) Þe stern went forwid þat þaim ledd, And wonþerfulli [Cott. ferlilic, Fairf., Trin. wondirly] þan war þai fedd. a1340Hampole Psalter xcvii. 1 God..þat wondirfully made man and wondirfullyere boght him. a1400Prymer (1891) 35 He was boren wonderfulliche of a mayde. a1425tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula etc. 69 Ane emplastre of þe white of ane rawe ey and oile..is seid wonderfully for to be mitigatiue. a1513Fabyan Chron. vi. cc. (1533) 123 b/2 He arrered excedynge imposycyons of the people, and greued them wonderfully. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. iv. (S.T.S.) I. 237 Eugenie had ane onlie dauchtir,..quha wounderfullie was..mouet with effectione of a religious lyfe. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 813 A chappell wonderfully built out of a rocke hewen hollow. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 23 The conversation of the English abroad, is wonderfullie pleasing unto strangers. 1642Caldwell Papers (Maitl. Club) I. 94, I pray God send her safe hither; wee wonderfully want her. 1719De Foe Crusoe ii. (Globe) 336, I wonderfully lik'd the Man. 1765Museum Rust. IV. 258 The seed being exceeding small, and to be sown wonderfully thin. 1789Mrs. Piozzi Journ. France I. 149 Their wonderfully-situated metropolis [sc. Venice]. 1839Thackeray Fatal Boots Jan., It got through the measles wonderfully. 1885‘Mrs. Alexander’ Valerie's Fate iv, It was a capital play, too, and so wonderfully acted.
†2. With wonder or admiration. Obs. rare.
c1450Merlin xiii. 200 Ther dide Gawein soche merveiles in armes that wondirfully was he be-holden of hem of logres. 1570J. Dee Math. Pref. *j, How Immateriall..Number is, who doth not perceaue? yea, who doth not wonderfully wonder at it? 1821Clare Vill. Minstrel I. 35 The crowd that wonderfully stares, To hear him talk of things in foreign land. |
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