| 释义 |
† undeˈfenced, ppl. a. Obs.
[un-1 8.]
1. = undefended ppl. a. 2.
1451J. Capgrave Life St. Gilbert 94 So was our old man eke disposed þat he wold not leue þe chirch on-defensed. 1544Betham Precepts War ii. li. L ij b, Let hym beware that he leaue not his campe vndefenced and vnmanned. 1586Day Eng. Secretorie ii. (1595) 100 The nature of the Dolphin is not to suffer the yong ones of her kind to straggle vndefenced. 1609Bible (Douay) Gen. xlii. 12 You came to consider the undefensed partes of this land. 1652Heylyn Cosmogr. 4 God sends man into the world..naked, and weak, and undefenced against all violences and dangers.
2. Unfenced.
1607J. Norden Surv. Dial. v. 239 It is common..where men sow their corne, in undefenced grounds, there they make a dead hay..to keepe the cattle from the corne. |