| 释义 |
pleasingly, adv.|ˈpliːzɪŋlɪ|
[f. prec. + -ly2.]
1. In a pleasing manner; so as to please; pleasantly.
c1400Lanfranc's Cirurgie 8 Be he trewe..& plesynglyche bere he hym-self to hys pacientis. 1593Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 129 No Orator was euer more pleasingly perswasiue. 1779Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 256 An island, where I spent my time so pleasingly. 1869H. F. Tozer Highl. Turkey II. 190 There is..very little variety, nor are the different objects pleasingly arranged.
†2. With pleasure; = pleasantly 2, pleasedly. Obs.
c1410Love Bonavent. Mirr. xxxiii. 62 (Gibbs MS.) Oure lord iesu accepted more plesyngly & preferred þe priuy contemplacyoun of marye. 1591Lambarde Archeion (1635) 89 If one that hath a judiciall place..shall pleasingly heare the proofes of the one partie, and peremptorily cut off the other. 1612W. Martyn Youth's Instruct. 77 Neither doe you relish too pleasingly your owne actions. 1682Norris Hierocles Pref. 19 That can look upon another man's Lands evenly and pleasingly as if they were his own. [Cf. pleasedly, quot. 1651.] |
