| 释义 |
fatted, ppl. a. Somewhat arch.|ˈfætɪd|
[f. fat v. + -ed1.]
In senses of the vb.; now only, fattened.[to kill the fatted calf: proverbially used with reference to Luke xv.] 1552Huloet, Fatted or dressed with fatte, adipatus, a, um. 1580Baret Alv. F 215 A fatted hogge, saginatus porcus. 1611Bible 1 Kings iv. 23 Beside.. fallow Deere, and fatted foule. 1647Cowley Mistress, The Welcome i, Go, let the fatted Calf be kill'd. 1660Hexham, Gemest landt, Dunged or Fatted land. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 49 The fatted sheep. 1870Bryant Iliad I. ii. 54 Agamemnon Offered a fatted ox of five years old. 1875Jowett Plato (ed. 2) III. 51 Pictures of the lean dogs and the fatted sheep. |