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vanquished, ppl. a.|ˈvæŋkwɪʃt|
Also 5–6 Sc. vencust, 6 Sc. vincust, vanquest, -queist; 6 vanquisshed, 7 vanquisht.
[f. as prec.]
Defeated, overcome, subdued.
1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 272 The vencust man..suld pay to the vencusour his costis. 1513Douglas æneid i. ii. 27 Cariand to Italy Thair vincust hammald goddis and Ilion. 1589A. Hume Poems (S.T.S.) 54 The portrators of euerie vanquest towne, Of Cittadells [etc.]. 1671Milton Samson 281 The matchless Gideon in pursuit Of Madian and her vanquisht Kings. 1710W. King Heathen Gods and Heroes x. (1722) 41 Those [arms] which Marcus Marcellus took from the vanquish'd Viridomarus. 1781Gibbon Decl. & F. xxviii. (1787) III. 103 But the victors themselves were insensibly subdued by the arts of their vanquished rivals. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 44 This plea the King considered as the subterfuge of a vanquished disputant. 1884Marshall's Tennis Cuts 266 Much more they steep The vanquished soul in sweet forgetfulness.
b. absol. The person or persons defeated, etc.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 50 Greater commoditie hath therof ensewed to the vanquisshed then the victourers. 1583T. Stocker Civ. Warres Lowe C. i. 38 That the victors would sacke the vanquisheds houses. 1651Hobbes Leviath. ii. xx. 104 It is not..the Victory, that giveth the right of Dominion over the Vanquished [etc.]. 1728Eliza Heywood tr. Mme. de Gomez's Belle A. (1732) II. 67 Perhaps, if Tremouille had been the vanquish'd, he could not have behaved with the same Temper, as, being Conqueror, he did. 1810J. Porter Scottish Chiefs lxxxv, He bade that generous prince adieu, with the full belief of soon returning to find him the vanquished of Edward. 1887Bowen æneid ii. 353 One hope only remains for the vanquished—hope to resign. |