| 释义 |
healthless, a. Now rare.|ˈhɛlθlɪs|
[see -less.]
1. Without health, out of health; destitute of bodily, mental, or spiritual health: unhealthy.
1568T. Howell Arb. Amitie (1879) 97 Why doe I seeke to heate my helthlesse hart? 1635Quarles Embl. iii. iii. (1718) 139 Restore health to my healthless soul. 1651–3Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xiii. 165 It may be for the lust of thy youth thou hast a healthlesse old age. 1857A. Mathews Tea-t. Talk I. 48 [Her] healthless condition had kept her many years in painful retirement.
2. Not conducive to health; unwholesome, insalubrious.
1650Jer. Taylor Holy Living i. i. §16 Like him whose..meat [is] nothing but sauces; they are healthless, chargeable, and useless. 1855Singleton Virgil II. 354 Who dwell In..ancient Pyrgi, and Graviscæ healthless.
Hence ˈhealthlessness, unhealthiness; unwholesomeness.
1655Jer. Taylor Unum Necess. vi. §7 (R.) There is such a certain healthlesness in many things to all..that to supply a need is to bring a danger. 1660― Duct. Dubit. ii. iii.–viii. §7 Fasting..is the best..unless it be altered by the inconveniences or healthlessness of the person. |