释义 |
one-ideaed, -idea'd, a.|ˈwʌnaɪˈdiːəd| Also one-idead. Having, or possessed by, a single idea. So one-idea a. Hence one-idea(d)ness, the fact or quality of being one-ideaed.
1842Lancet 12 Mar. 830 The dead superstitions, and one-idead theories, of the middle ages. 1849Thoreau Week Concord Riv., Tuesday 195 Crude, and one-idea'd, like a schoolboy's theme. 1852Blackw. Mag. Aug. 261/2 His absorbed one-ideadness. 1859Helps Friends in C. Ser. ii. II. ix. 179 One-ideaed persons in high power. 1862M. B. Chesnut Diary 13 Mar. (1949) 199 He is a one-idea man. That idea is to get every possible man into the ranks. 1899W. James in Talks to Teachers on Psychol. 220 A saint in ecstasy is as..one idea'd as a melancholiac. 1920H. Begbie Life W. Booth I. xxii. 365 It was..this intense singleness of view, this consuming one-ideaness of soul, which made William Booth so successful. 1934E. Bowen Cat Jumps 252 She..was in fact a rather one-idea girl. |