| 释义 |
weetless, a. arch.|ˈwiːtlɪs|
[f. weet v.1 + -less. App. coined by Spenser; distinct from witless.]
Unknowing, unconscious. † Also (quot. 1579), meaningless.
1579Spenser Sheph. Cal. July 35 Syker, thous but a laesie loord, and rekes much of thy swinck, That with fond termes, and weetlesse words to blere myne eyes doest thinke. [E. K. Glosse, Weetlesse, not vnderstoode.] 1590― F.Q. iii. ii. 26 But the false Archer, which that arrow shot So slyly, that she did not feele the wound, Did smyle full smoothly at her weetlesse wofull stound. 1596Ibid. vi. viii. 47 And now all weetlesse of the wretched stormes In which his loue was lost, he slept full fast. 1747[J. Upton] New Canto F.Q. xix. 13 Nathless the Soul, from her true heavenly Way, Caught by some Semblance fair, too weetless wends astray. [Footn., Weetless, thoughtless, careless, unknowing: too thoughtless goes astray.]. 1751M. Mendez Seasons xxx. in Pearch Collect. Poems (1768) II. 246 Or how the way-ward mother to chastise When from her vetchy nest the weetless vagrant hies. 1767Mickle Concub. i. xx, Bashfully the weetlesse Boy did look. 1802Leyden Cout of Keeldar xxxviii, 'Twas here for Mangerton's brave lord A bloody feast was set, Who weetless, at the festal board, The bull's broad frontlet met. 1814Cary Dante, Parad. x. 31 And I was with him, weetless of ascent, But as a man, that weets him come, ere thinking. 1829G. Darley Wedding Wake, Anniv. 73 Look how the weetless, reckless air Moves its dead tresses now! a1849J. C. Mangan Poems (1859) 256 Mother dear, thy happy heart is weetless of my dolour. |