释义 |
self-inˈflicted, ppl. a. [self- 2.] Inflicted by oneself or one's own hand.
1784Cowper Task iv. 430 Poverty, with most who whimper forth Their long complaints, is self-inflicted woe. 1814Byron Lara i. xvii, Self-inflicted penance. 1885Law Times LXXVIII. 270/2 The injury was self-inflicted. So self-inˈfliction.
1860Pusey Min. Proph. 583 Self-infliction was characteristic of the idolatrous cuttings. 1892Zangwill Bow Myst. 36 In the absence of any theory as to how the cut could possibly have been made by that other hand, we should be driven back to the theory of self-infliction. |