| 释义 |
minced, ppl. a.|mɪnst|
[f. mince v. + -ed1.]
1. Of meat, etc.: Cut up or chopped into very small pieces. minced collops: see collop1 2 c. See also minced meat, minced-pie.
c1420Liber Cocorum (1862) 17 Frye smalle mynsud onyone In oyle. c1430Two Cookery-bks. 15 Also mencyd Dates, Clowes, Maces [etc.]. c1450Ibid. 110 Take vynegre and poudre gingere, salt, and cast a-pon þe mynced shulder [of mutton]. a1584Tom Thumbe 100 in Hazl. E.P.P. II. 181 His mother..Into a pudding thrust her sonne instead of minced fat. 1821Lamb Elia Ser. i. Grace before meat, One who professes to like minced veal. 1893Mrs. Beeton's Cookery Bk. 111/1 Minced Fowl—an Entrée (Cold Poultry Cookery).
b. fig. (See mince v. 2.)
1581Mulcaster Positions viii. (1887) 53 Writers make to many, and to finely minced distinctions. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 279 Is not birth, beauty,..and so forth: the Spice and salt that seasons a man? Cres. I, a minc'd man and then to be bak'd with no Date in the pye, for then the mans' dates out.
2. Uttered or performed in a mincing or affected manner. ? Obs.
1545Brinklow Compl. i. 8 The mombled and mynsed Masse (wherby neither God is glorifyed, nor the hearers edifyed). 1553Becon Reliques of Rome (1563) 117 The minsed musike that now beareth chief rule in Churches.
†3. Diminished; deprived of some essential part, mutilated. Obs.
1609J. Rawlinson Fishermen Fishers of Men 34 A minced and curtall mainteinance. 1695Sage Fund. Charter Presb. (1697) 216 Giving us only a Minced account of this Petition. 1707Vulpone 15 [Of the Scotch Representation at the Union.] To agree to such a minced Representative, and give away the Birth-rights of their Lords, Barons and Boroughs.
b. Of an oath: see mince v. 4 d.
1880Brewer Reader's Handbk. (1885) 606 Mr. Mantalini..is..noted for..his minced oaths [etc.]. |