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▪ I. purblind, a.|ˈpɜːblaɪnd|
Forms: α. 3 pur blind, 4 pure blynde, 6 pour, poure, 6–7 pore, poare, poore blind (etc.), 8 pur blind. β. 6 poore-blynd, 6–7 pur-blinde, 7 pore-, poare-, pure-blinde, 7–8 pur-blind. γ. 3, 6–7 purblinde, 5–6 purblynde, 6–7 purblynd, 6– purblind; 6–7 purreblind; 6 poore-, poureblind, 6–7 pourblind(e; 6–8 poreblind, (6 purblinde, purblynde, 9 perblind). See also spurblind.
[In 13th c., and sometimes later, as two words, pur, pure blind, perh. pure adv. entirely, quite, or, as some suggest, OF. pur-, pour- intensive. But if this sense (which appears in the first quotation) was the original, it had come before 1400 to mean something less than blind, and was soon written as one word, the first element of which was in the 16th c. variously represented as poor, pore, pour.]
†1. Quite or totally blind. Obs. rare.
The sense appears certain in quot. 1297; in those of the 16th and 17th c. it is doubtful.
1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 7713 Wo so bi king willames daye slou hert oþer hind Me ssolde pulte out boþe is eye & makye him pur blind. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 181 This wimpled, whyning, purblinde waiward Boy,..don Cupid. 1592― Rom. & Jul. ii. i. 12 Speake to my goship Venus one faire word, One Nickname for her purblind Sonne and her. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado, etc., Love's Labyrinth 63 But we by Cupids meanes, that pur blind boy, obtaine by death we could not earst enioy.
2. Of impaired or defective vision, in various senses:
†a. Blind of one eye (obs.).
b. Short-sighted, near-sighted.
c. (Sometimes app.) Long-sighted, dim-sighted from age.
d. Partially blind; almost blind; dim-sighted, generally, or without particularization.
a.1382Wyclif Exod. xxi. 26 If eny man smyte the eye of his seruaunt, or of hondmayden, and make hem pure blynde [1388 makith hem oon iȝed; Vulg. et luscos eos fecerit; LXX καὶ ἐκτυϕλώση], he shal leeue hem free for the eye that he hath drawun out. c1440Promp. Parv. 416/2 Purblynde, luscus. 1617Moryson Itin. iii. 16 The French haue a good Prouerbe, Entre les aueugles, les borgnes sont les Roys: Among the blinde, the pore blind are the Kings.
b.1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. lxi. 83 In the chase, sir Olphert of Guystels, was taken, for he was purblynde [orig. car il auoit courte veue]. 1601Holland Pliny II. 367 The dung..is singular good for those that be poreblind or short sighted. 1626Bacon Sylva §870 Pore-blinde Men..haue their Sight Stronger neare hand, than those that are not Poreblinde; And can Reade and Write smaller Letters. 1735–6in Swift's Lett. 10 Feb. (1766) II. 227, I was in hopes you would have mended, like my purblind eyes, with old age. 1853Dunglison Med. Lex., Purblind, myopic.
c.1621Molle Camerar. Liv. Libr. iii. xvii. 202 Eies that are turned, that are poare-blind. 1794G. Adams Nat. & Exp. Philos. II. xvii. 308 The apparent paradox of the pur-blind, or those who can scarcely see a small object at arm's length, yet discovering those that are very remote.
d.1531Elyot Gov. iii. iii, But a weighty or heuy cloke, fresshely glitteringe in the eyen of them that be poreblynde. 1547Homilies 1. Agst. Contention ii, It is more shame for hym that is whole blynd, to call hym blinkerd, that is but pore blynd. 1605Willet Hexapla Gen. 308 Her eyes..dull and heauie, which made her poore blind, or to looke a squint. 1621T. Williamson tr. Goulart's Wise Vieillard 56 Some are borne starke blinde, and some purblinde. 1751Smollett Per. Pic. lxxiv. (1779) III. 13 Reconnoitering the company through a glass, for no other reason but because it was fashionable to be pur-blind. 1868M. E. Braddon Charlotte's Inher. i. i, Old Nanon the cook, purblind, stone-deaf, and all but imbecile.
†e. Applied to the hare. Obs.
c1280Names of Hare in Rel. Ant. I. 133 He shal saien on oreisoun In þe worshipe of þe hare..Þe brodlokere, þe bromkat, Þe purblinde, þe fursecat. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 679 And when thou hast on foote the purblind hare, Marke the poore wretch.
f. fig. Of things: Dimly lighted.
1719D'Urfey Pills III. 66 He was hir'd, To light the Purblind Skies. 1898J. Hollingshead Gaiety Chron. i. 17 Small..windows, blinking purblind at the busy..thoroughfare.
3. fig. Having imperfect perception or discernment; lacking or incapable of clear mental, moral, or spiritual vision; stupid, obtuse, dull.
1533More Answ. Poysoned Bk. Wks. 1078/2 Maister Masker..is not..so pore blinde but that he seeth well in dede, that y⊇ meate which Christ speaketh of here, is our sauiour Christ himselfe. 1596Drayton Leg. iv. 84 Which their dull purblind Ignorance not saw. 1629Prynne God no Impostor 31 Mans darke, or purblinde carnall reason. 1660W. Secker Nonsuch Prof. 313 Man is such a pur-blind creature, that he cannot unerringly see a day before him. 1859Kingsley Misc. (1860) I. 118 Foresight as short and as purblind as that of the British farmer.
▪ II. purblind, v.|pɜːˈblaɪnd|
[f. prec.: cf. to blind.]
trans. To make purblind; to impair the sight of. Also fig. Hence purˈblinded ppl. a.
1572R. H. tr. Lauaterus' Ghostes iv. 16 Poare blynded men whome the Greekes call Μύοπες. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 31 A..purblinded Argus, all eyes and no sight. 1651Howell Venice 175 This Signory..doth not admit the falshood of any interessed opinion to purblind Her own proper understanding. 1831Carlyle Sart. Res. iii. iii, Were he not as has been said, purblinded by enchantment. 1874W. Jones N. Test. Illustr. 595 The eagle..can, by frightening and purblinding the animal [chamois], make it leap the precipice. |