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battered, ppl. a.|ˈbætəd|
[f. batter v.1 + -ed.]
a. Bruised and shattered by repeated blows; worn and defaced by rough or hard usage, the chances of time, etc. Often fig.
1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 104 Over my altars hath he hung his lance, His batter'd shield. 1680Lond. Gaz. No. 1538/4 A Brown Bay Nag..his Feet somewhat battered. 1700Maundrell Journ. Jerus. (1721) T iij b, Old batter'd Horses. 1765Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 57 The battered rake..has exhausted all his health. 1809J. Barlow Columb. ii. 336 And pours destruction o'er its batter'd walls. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop liii. (1848) 240 The sexton's spade gets worn and battered.
b. battered baby, an infant exhibiting symptoms (the battered baby syndrome) resulting from repeated injuries inflicted upon it over a period; battered wife, woman, a woman who has been repeatedly injured or otherwise ill-treated by her partner.
[1962C. H. Kempe et al. in Jrnl. Amer. Med. Assoc. 7 July 17/1 The battered-child syndrome is a term used by us to characterize a clinical condition in young children who have received serious physical abuse, generally from a parent or foster parent.] 1963Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 Dec. 1558 (heading) Multiple epiphysial injuries in babies (‘*battered baby’ syndrome). Ibid. 1560/1 The x-ray changes in the ‘battered baby’ are..like those often described in infantile scurvy.
1973Nursing Times 14 June 777/1 Erin Pizzey is always hot under the collar about the lack of help a *battered wife can get. 1980Ld. Denning Due Process of Law vii. iv. 224 By a short Act entitled the Domestic Violence Act 1976 it [sc. Parliament] enabled the County Courts to grant injunctions to protect a ‘battered wife’ even though the house was in the husband's sole name. 1973Times 14 June 2/4 A voluntarily run centre that shelters *battered women and their children seeking refuge from brutality by the man of the household is preparing a report.
1976Spare Rib Oct. 22/4 The only refuge for battered women in the area is threatened with closure. 1985Rep. Cases Supreme Court New Jersey XCVII. 187 The central issue before us is whether expert testimony about the battered-woman's syndrome is admissable to help establish a claim of self-defense in a homicide case. |