| 释义 |
sainted, ppl. a.|ˈseɪntɪd|
Also 6 sancted.
[f. saint v. + -ed1.]
1. Enrolled among the saints; canonized; that is a saint in Heaven.
1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 301 These Sainted Arch⁓bishops. a1633Austin Medit. (1635) 224 Some others he [sc. the Pope] hath let in for Sainted Martyrs, of whom some..beleeve, that they were rather executed Traitors. 1717Pope Eloisa 312 Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid. 1845Longfellow Norman Baron x, The lightning showed the sainted Figures on the casement painted. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xx. IV. 397 Lewis [XIV]..instituted..a new military order of knighthood, and placed it under the protection of his own sainted ancestor [St. Louis].
2. a. Of sanctified or holy life or character.
1605Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 109 Thy Royall Father Was a most Sainted-King. 1760–72H. Brooke Fool of Qual. (1809) III. 15, I..pray for a blissful issue to the union of the sainted pair. 1810Scott Lady of L. ii. viii, The eve thy sainted mother died. 1826Disraeli Viv. Grey iv. iv, His virtuous and sainted wife. 1867Freeman Norm. Conq. I. v. 302 The former home of sainted princesses.
b. Used trivially as an expletive in phr. my sainted aunt (also mother)!
1869‘Mark Twain’ Innoc. Abr. v. 52 ‘Twenty-five cigars, at 100 reis, 2500 reis!’ Oh, my sainted mother! 1916M. Diver Desmond's Daughter ii. ii. 50 My sainted aunt! You did ought to have been in the anteroom just now. 1919F. Hurst Humoresque 114 Your sainted mither!.. It's only because she was sainted I'm lettin' ye up in on her. 1921[see aunt 5]. 1926‘Sapper’ Final Count v. 141 Oh! my sainted aunt! don't tell me that old gorse bush was Carl Peterson. 1939Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xvii. 256 ‘Oh, my aunt! Don't tell me she's changed her mind and wants the stuff after all?’.. ‘Exactly.’ ‘Oh, my sainted bally aunt!’ 1971R. Roberts Classic Slum viii. 127 Self-consciously we incorporated weird slang into our own oath-sprinkled banter—‘Yarooh!’ ‘My sainted aunt!’ ‘Leggo!’ and a dozen others.
3. Such as belongs to or befits a saint; sacred, holy.
1598Mucedorus Epil. 21 Case vicious Diuels vnder sancted Rochets. 1601Shakes. All's Well iii. iv. 7 Bare-foot plod I the cold ground vpon With sainted vow my faults to haue amended. 1634Milton Comus 11 Amongst the enthron'd gods on Sainted seats. 1652French Yorksh. Spa xvii. 123 Let not any one judge me to be a Catholick by this my approbation of this Sainted Well. 1760Smollett Contn. Hist. Eng. I. 10 Bolingbroke..resided at Battersea, where he was visited like a sainted shrine by all the distinguished votaries of wit. 1817Moore Lalla R., Paradise & Peri 351 And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon. 1848Thackeray Van. Fair l, She rocked him in her arms, and wept silently over him in a sainted agony of tears.
Hence † ˈsaintedly adv., in a saintly manner.
c1789Terry in T. Campbell Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834) II. vi. 149 So saintedly beauteous is the sickness and the grief of Katharine. |