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ordure|ˈɔːdjʊə(r)|
Also 5 ordoure, 5–6 ordur, 6 urdeur.
[a. F. ordure (12th c. in Godef. Compl.), f. ord filthy, foul:—L. horridus horrid.]
1. Filth, dirt. Formerly also in pl. arch.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1092 By nobleye of his norture he nolde neuer towche Oȝt þat watz vngoderly oþer ordure watz inne. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas ix. vii. 24 Fret with olde rust gadreth greate ordure. 1528Paynell Salerne's Regim. O iij b, Water..where into ronneth no vrdeurs of cites. 1558Warde tr. Alexis' Secr. (1568) 70 b, Boile this together..and if there bee any ordure or fylth at the bottom, you must take it away. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Ear, An Ulcer often..is occasion'd by a Wound, some Hurt, or some Ordure that is corrupted in the Ear. 1887Bowen Virg. æneid v. 332 The youth..Fell, in the victim's gore and the ordure meeting with ill.
2. Excrement, dung. Formerly also in pl.
1388Wyclif Deut. xxviii. 27 The Lord smyte the part of bodi wherbi ordures ben voyded. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. vii. (1520) 104 b/1 In the same place he made his ordure. 1581Mulcaster Positions xv. (1887) 70 They will..disburden themselues one waie or other, by ordure, vrine, or some other matter. 1658Rowland tr. Moufet's Theat. Ins. 911 Mingle Attick honey with the first ordure the Infant makes. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry xlix. (1840) III. 209 Dante represents some of his criminals rolling themselves in human ordure. 1865Livingstone Zambesi viii. 181 Ordure is deposited around countless villages.
3. fig. Applied to that which is morally filthy or defiling, or to foul language ‘cast’ or ‘thrown’ at a person. (Cf. dirt n. 6 b, filth n. 3 c.)
c1374Chaucer Troylus v. 385 Allas! allas! so noble a creature As is a man shal drede swich ordure! c1386― Pars. T. ⁋83 In the stynkynge ordure of synne. 1430–40Lydg. Bochas vii. viii. (1554) 171 b, With such rebukes and casting of ordure..blotted was his visage. 1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 61 Knowing their owne vice, and life full of ordure..Yet sinne they still. 1682Dryden Medal 188 Those let me curse; what vengeance will they urge, Whose ordures neither plague nor fire can purge? 1814Jefferson Writ. (1830) IV. 224 These ordures are rapidly depraving the public taste. 1870Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. i. (1873) 49, I have been forced to hold my nose in picking my way through these ordures of Dryden.
Hence † ˈordured a., defiled with ordure, polluted; † ˈorduring vbl. n., the voiding of ordure: in quot. concr. excrement; † ˈordurous a., of the nature of ordure, filthy.
1593Drayton Ecl. viii. 77 The rude times their ord'rous matter fling, Into the Sacred and once hallowed Spring. c1595Southwell St. Peter's Compl. viii, A sea will scantly rince my ordur'd soule. 1614C. Brooke Ghost Rich. III Poems (1872) 110 A filthy carpet fits an ordur'd thought. 1654Gayton Pleas. Notes i. iii. 8 These high thoughts brought the Don to his Knees, happily on a Cushion of Rosinantes own orduring. |