| 释义 |
seˈlected, ppl. a.
[f. select v. + -ed1.]
1. Specially chosen, picked out.
1590Marlowe 2nd Pt. Tamburl. v. ii. 4381 For we haue here the chiefe selected men Of twenty seuerall kingdomes at the least. 1629Quarles Argalus & Parth. iii. Wks. (Grosart) III. 277/1 Sometimes (for change of pleasure) he would read Selected stories, whilst her eares would feed Upon his lips. 1729T. Cooke Tales etc., Knts. Bath 14 He thrice twelve gallant Youths, of high Renown, Selected Souls, of all the Land the Flowr, Appointed to adorn the bridal Hour. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. vii, For an instant this man quitted the prisoner, whom he consigned to a selected guard. 1865Tylor Early Hist. Man. x. 273, I give some selected cases of the Argument from similar customs.
†2. Choice, ‘select’. Obs. rare.
1598B. Jonson Ev. Man in Hum. 1, ii, To his most selected [Qo. elected] friend, master Edward Knowell. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. vii. §4 To keepe still the Lawe of breuitie, by vsing the most eminent and selected examples. 1655H. Vaughan Silex Scint. 180 The first true worship of the world's great king From private and selected hearts did spring.
Hence † seˈlectedly adv.
1637Heywood Royal Ship (1638) 48 All of them in their severall faculties being knowne to bee the prime Workmen of the Kingdome, selectedly imploy'd in this Service. |