“precautionary”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

precautionary

释义

precautionary, a. (n.)|prɪˈkɔːʃənərɪ|
[f. precaution n. + -ary.]
A. adj.
1. Suggesting or advising provident caution.
1757Herald No. 6 (1758) I. 89 Had the planners of the scheme no precautionary forecast?1820Corry Eng. Metrop. 103 You are startled at my first precautionary hint.1866Geo. Eliot F. Holt xxv, Jermyn's precautionary statement that he was pursuing inquiries.
2. Of, pertaining to, of the nature of a precaution.
1807S. Turner Anglo-Sax. (ed. 2) I. iv. v. 276 The precautionary measures of Alfred.1848R. I. Wilberforce Doctr. Incarnation v. (1852) 125 A precautionary guard against what was afterwards the Arian heresy.1880Flo. Marryat Fair-haired Alda II. ix. 159 My measures were only precautionary.
†B. n. A precautionary measure, a precaution.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) IV. 49 Thou seest, Belford, by the above precautionaries, that I forget nothing.

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