[lit-ideas] Urinometer (Was: Wrongly)
- From: Jlsperanza@xxxxxxx
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- Date: Tue, 12 Oct 2004 08:49:15 EDT
In a message dated 10/11/2004 9:21:05 PM Eastern Standard Time,
judithevans001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
Yes. I don't know whether there's a way of deciding -- or knowing --
when "wrongly" should be used.
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A couple of quotes from the OED, including the etymology. My favourite cite
is, I guess, the only one in the OED -- under 'wrongly' -- which actually
cross-referes to another entry ('urinometer') -- and which I looked up too:
1858 THUDICHUM Urine 34
Which, when destined to be used for
the urine only, should be called
urogravimeter, but has been wrongly
styled urinometer.
Cheers,
JL
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wrongly, f. WRONG a. + -LY2. Cf. ON. rangliga, Norw. ranglege; MSw.
vranglika, Da. vrangelig.]
1303 R. BRUNNE Handl. Synne 11069
ens God, he ys nat quyte at <NOBR for hys owne profyte Holy cherche wrongly
be yue To o men at wykkedly lyue.
1586 SIDNEY Arcadia III. vii,
So wrongly-consorted a power could not resist the ready minded force of
Amphialus.
1830 SIR T. LAWRENCE in Williams Life & Corr. (1831) I. 131,
I began life wrongly, I spent more money than I earned, and accumulated
debts.
1848 MRS. GASKELL Mary Barton ix,
She..was so afraid of speaking wrongly, that she was silent.
1904 Daily Chron. 2 May 5/6 A wrongly-set switch.
1633 [? WARE] Spenser's State Irel. Pref. ¶3b,
He deceased at Westminster in the year 1599. (others have it wrongly 1598.)
1690 LOCKE Hum. Und. II. xi. §13. 71
Mad Men,..having joined together some Ideas very wrongly,..mistake them for
Truths.
1818 CRUISE Digest (ed. 2) III. 414
The judgement is evidently misstated, or wrongly printed.
1858 [see URINOMETER].
1892 Photogr. Ann. II. 735
If any houses have been omitted, or wrongly included under any heading.
1755 JOHNSON,
Misbeliever,..one who holds a false religion, or believes wrongly.
1809-14 WORDSW. Excurs. v. 508
What sees he but a creature..that yearns, Regrets or trembles, wrongly, or
too much; Hopes rashly.
1838 JAMES Robber iv,
You construe what I have said very wrongly.
1884 tr. Lotze's Logic 407
To us, rightly or wrongly, general principles appear rather as [etc.].
1918 Times Lit. Suppl. 28 Mar. 147/1
The methods..have, rightly or wrongly, largely fallen into discredit.
1340 Ayenb. 8
And yet And e he more et er <NOBR>p ssame er harm to ren wrongliche.
1393 LANGL. P. Pl. C. IV. 92
False puple, That by-gylen good men and False hem wrongliche.
1400 Cato's Morals in Cursor M. App. 1672
A-gaine man A-twise striue ou in na wise, ne wrangeli him greue.
1419 26 Pol. Poems 69 To wynne wrongly wele, wod ey gan wede.
1450 Myrr. our Ladye II. 249 Many of them wrongly wandrynge from the
ryghtnes of faythe.
1586 C'TESS PEMBROKE Ps. LXIX. ii, Wrongly sett to worke my woe.
1605 SHAKES.Macb. I. v. 23
Thou..would'st not play false, And yet would'st wrongly winne.
1609 DANIEL Civ. Wars V. ci, There he had his rightfull punishment, Though
wrongly done; and there he lost his head.
1839-40 WORDSW.
â??The Roman Consulâ?? 10 When they by wilful act A single human life have
wrongly taken.
1847 C. BRONTÃ? J. Eyre viii, I have been wrongly accused.
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