释义 |
bedarken, v.|bɪˈdɑːk(ə)n| [f. be- 1 + darken.] trans. To involve in darkness. Also fig.
1596C. Fitzgeffrey Sir F. Drake (1881) 24 Boughes bedarkning all the daie. 1834Sir H. Taylor Artevelde ii. iii. ii, Guilt bedarkens and confounds the mind of man. Hence beˈdarkened, beˈdarkening ppl. a.
1809Southey Ess. (1832) II. 282 It is still the same bedarkened and bedarkening superstition. 1833H. Coleridge Poems I. 54 Sweet snatches of delight That visit our bedarken'd day. 1847Sir H. Taylor Eve of Conq. 36 If thou cast reproachful looks On sports bedarkening custom erst allowed. |