| 单词 | adjectively |
| 例句 | Apple is used either adjectively or in combination; as, apple paper or appleÐpaper, appleÐshaped, apple blossom, apple dumpling, apple pudding. ÷ blight, an aphid which injures ~ trees. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Intoxicating liquor; as, to drown one's reason in the bottle. µ Bottle is much used adjectively, or as the first part of a compound. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (2nd 100 Pages) 2012-03-24T02:00:19.387Z He was telling the clerk to get his grips down from the room, adjectively quick, and to hold the hotel auto so that he could catch the midnight westbound. The Wreckers 2012-02-14T03:00:26.817Z Manger, mānj′ėr, n. a trough in which food is laid for horses and cattle.—Dog in the manger, one who will neither enjoy something himself nor let others do so—also adjectively. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) 2012-01-11T03:00:23.770Z Every one knows that our German ancestors used the word horse adjectively. Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 91, July 26, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. 2011-10-19T02:00:23.307Z Something, as a writing, that is of doubtful authorship or authority; Ð formerly used also adjectively. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Branch′y.—Root and branch, thoroughly—used also adjectively, as in a 'root-and-branch' policy. Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) 2011-10-11T02:01:08.990Z D. But I used the word Irish adjectively and with the same amount of qualification that one employs to a diamond, and indeed, as I have read it in a London paper, to a lord. Charles Lever, His Life in His Letters, Vol. II 2011-04-15T02:00:16.987Z But I used the word "Irish" adjectively, and with the same amount of qualification that one employs to a diamond, and indeed, as I have read it in a London paper, to a "Lord." Confessions Of Con Cregan An Irish Gil Blas How does ocean, used adjectively, differ from oceanic? English Synonyms and Antonyms With Notes on the Correct Use of Prepositions A phrase used adjectively sometimes of meretricious attempts to catch or win popular favor. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z London, as the first syllable may be taken adjectively, will mean the Lake Hill. Memorials of Old London Volume I Calcutta hotels, deplorably poor, have been fitly described as of two kinds—bad and adjectively bad. East of Suez Ceylon, India, China and Japan Of another country or society; a word used adjectively, being joined with divers substantives in several senses. The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. Generally, the participles are those forms of the verb that are used adjectively; as, seeing, having seen, being seen, having been seen, seen, playing, having played, etc. Practical Grammar and Composition As, or in the manner of, an adjective; adjectively. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z The word is also used adjectively for "knavish tricks," "rogueries." Notes and Queries, Number 66, February 1, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. It was used adjectively as in the phrase, maya u chapahal, his sickness is not dangerous. The Maya Chronicles Brinton's Library Of Aboriginal American Literature, Number 1 "These are real savings-banks for heat"—he explains pompously—for he loves to tackle the difficult—even adjectively. With Those Who Wait Oft is here used adjectively: this use is common in the English Bible, e.g. i. Milton's Comus The artificial motion or carriage of a horse. µ Air is much used adjectively or as the first part of a compound term. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Besides, the terms, of which I suppose these names to be formed, are not properly in regimine; but are used adjectively, as is common almost in every language. A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume I. For the name "God" is used substantively; whereas "having Godhead" is used adjectively. Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) From the Complete American Edition Nay, a is sometimes found before one when the latter is used adjectively; as, "There is no record in Holy Writ of the institution of a one all-controlling monarchy."—Supremacy of the Pope Disproved, p. The Grammar of English Grammars In modern language the preposition is dropped, and the word in ing is treated adjectively. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition In the manner of an adjective; as, a word used adjectively. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary 2012-03-24T02:00:23.513Z Them is the objective case of the personal pronoun and cannot be used adjectively like the demonstrative adjective pronoun. How to Speak and Write Correctly Thus, too, when a noun is used adjectively, it should remain separate from the noun it modifies; as, a gold ring, a silver buckle. The Grammar of English Grammars But whenever these words are used adjectively to denote gender, whether we choose to insert the hyphen or not, they are, without question, indeclinable, like other adjectives. The Grammar of English Grammars An expression consisting of an asserting word followed by an adjective complement or by a participle used adjectively may be mistaken for a verb in the passive voice. Higher Lessons in English A work on English grammar and composition We often use nouns adjectively; and Areios is an adjective: I would therefore write this name Mars Hill, as we write Bunker Hill. The Grammar of English Grammars Of the Common Adjectives, there are probably not fewer than six thousand, exclusive of the common nouns which we refer to this class when they are used adjectively. The Grammar of English Grammars Plain and sound, according to our dictionaries, are used both adjectively and adverbially; and, if their superlatives are not misapplied in these instances, it is because the words are adverbs, and regularly compared as such. The Grammar of English Grammars To insert neither, unless we make a close compound, is to use a plural noun adjectively; which form, I think, is the most objectionable of all. The Grammar of English Grammars Yet, in instances not a few, the same word is capable of being used both adjectively and adverbially. The Grammar of English Grammars All nouns used adjectively, as an iron bar, an evening school, a mahogany chair, a South-Sea dream, are also incapable of comparison. The Grammar of English Grammars In all these examples, the word whatever or whatsoever appears to be used both adjectively and relatively. The Grammar of English Grammars Participles contain the essential meaning of their verbs, and commonly denote action, and imply time; but, apart from auxiliaries, they express that meaning either adjectively or substantively, and not with assertion. The Grammar of English Grammars But in the second form, the apposition is reversed; and, in the third, the proper name appears to be taken adjectively. The Grammar of English Grammars But, according to present usage, few adverbs are ever compared by inflection, except such words as may also be used adjectively. The Grammar of English Grammars For example: cleanly, comely, deadly, early, kindly, kingly, likely, lively, princely, seemly, weakly, may all be thus compared; and, according to Johnson and Webster, they may all be used either adjectively or adverbially. The Grammar of English Grammars All nouns used adjectively, and many that are compounded together, seem to form exceptions to it. The Grammar of English Grammars |
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