| 释义 |
wrested, ppl. a.|ˈrɛstɪd|
[f. wrest v. + -ed1.]
1. That has undergone wresting or wringing; twisted. Also transf.
1609Holland Ammianus Marcell. 50 Bolts and darts discharged violently from the writhed and wrested strings of a brake or such like engine. 1616W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. v. 440 A wrested Bryre Onely kept close the gate which led unto it. a1617Bayne On Eph. (1658) 72 The ache of a wrested joynt. 1656J. Smith Pract. Physick 320 The Bone may alwaies remain wrested.
2. fig. Deflected or turned from the true meaning or natural application; strained, perverted.
1551Robinson tr. More's Utopia (Arb.) 60 The bare wordes of the lawe, or a wrythen and wrested vnderstandinge of the same. c1554Hooper in Coverdale Lett. Mart. (1564) 160 This iudgement of Paul is more to be followed, then al our own fayned and wrested defences. 1559T. Brice Reg. Martyrs July 1557 D ij, When wrested law put him to deth. 1589Cooper Admon. 32 So many wrested Scriptures, so many false conclusions. 1615J. Stephens Satyr. Ess. 175 For he, wanting the humor of his wrested observance, falles away into ignorant silence. 1687Atterbury Answ. Consid. Spirit Luther 46 Little wrested sentences of authors. 1729T. Innes Crit. Essay I. 330 Wrested texts of the Old Testament. a1743Savage To Sir R. Walpole 133 New courts of censure..Explain'd, at will, each statute's wrested aim. 1868J. Bruce Digby's Voy. Medit. Pref. p. xv, Opinions..raised upon wrested inferences.
3. Drawn out, taken or acquired, by force.
1565Cooper s.v. Cado, Non sponte cadentes lachrymae, wrested teares. 1590Spenser F.Q. iii. i. 24 Death me liefer were, then such despight, So vnto wrong to yield my wrested right. 1595Shakes. John iv. iii. 154 Vast confusion waites As doth a Rauen on a sicke-falne beast, The iminent decay of wrested pompe. |