| 单词 | offensively |
| 释义 | offensively, adv.|əˈfɛnsɪvlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In an offensive manner.
1. By way of attack or aggression; aggressively.
1556J. Heywood Spider & F. lxxxvii. 142 Flies (without your leaue) passing offensiuelie. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 97 They devise a league, not offensively but defensively. 1683Lond. Gaz. No. 1824/2 That Crown will not be in a posture to act offensively against the Turks this Summer. 1792Burke Pres. St. Aff. Wks. VII. 93 They must make war..either offensively or defensively. 1807G. Chalmers Caledonia I. i. iii. 109 By thus daring to act offensively, they are said to have inspired terror.
2. So as to excite displeasure, resentment, or disgust; disagreeably, unpleasantly, insultingly; † injuriously, hurtfully (obs.).
1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 110 Any thing..offensively spoken in the dispraise of your person. 1660Boyle New Exp. Phys. Mech. xi. 82 The surrounding sides of the Receiver were sensibly, and almost offensively heated by it. 1726Swift Gulliver ii. iii, Smelling very offensively. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 100 You will readily believe that what I have thought freely, I could not mean to express offensively. 1885Manch. Exam. 16 June 4/7 Last night the same insubordination was displayed still more offensively.
†3. With displeasure, with resentment. Obs. rare.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxiii. (Arb.) 275 The king laughed hartily and tooke it nothing offensiuely. 1604E. G[rimstone] D'Acosta's Hist. Indies i. i. 4 Wee ought not to take it offencively.
†4. In violation of law or order. Obs. rare.
1607Nottingham Rec. IV. 284 Tymber lyinge vpon the same Hill offensively. |
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