| 释义 |
myˈsteriously, adv.
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
In a mysterious manner; in or as in a mystery.
1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 171 Mahomitan Princes are terrible crafty or mysteriously politicious. 1667Milton P.L. iii. 516 Each Stair mysteriously was meant. a1716South Serm. (1744) VIII. v. 141 The blood of that son..so mysteriously, and yet so really, conveyed to us. 1738Warburton Div. Legat. ii. iv. (1846) 200 Every thing in these rites was mysteriously conducted, and under the most solemn obligations to secrecy. 1797Mrs. Radcliffe Italian vii, What but spirit could have quitted this vault so mysteriously? 1842S. Lover Handy Andy xxi, The mysteriously-sentimental and imaginative school. 1851Helps Comp. Solit. i. 8 note, Physicians' prescriptions may have a better effect for being expressed mysteriously, but legal matters cannot surely be made too clear. 1861Geo. Eliot Silas M. iii, The rich..accepted gout and apoplexy as things that ran mysteriously in respectable families. |
