释义 |
clothed, ppl. a.|kləʊðd| [see clothe v.] a. Covered with, or as with, clothes, clad. As adj. chiefly with well-, ill-, or the like.
c1220Bestiary 150 If he cloðed man se. 1647Crashaw Poems 118 A well-clothed soul. a1729Dampier's Voy. III. i. 297 And those Hills too, so cloath'd with tall Woods. 1748De Foe's Tour Gt. Brit. II. 245 (D.) A cloathed Resurrection-piece, painted by Sir James Thornhill. 1839W. Chambers Tour Holland 23/1 Avenues of richly clothed trees. 1867Smyth Sailor's Word-bk. 193 A mast is said to be clothed when the sail is so long as to reach the deck-gratings. b. Phr. clothed and in one's right mind [with allusion to Mark v. 15, Luke viii. 35]: sane, well, normal.
1873Hardy Pair of Blue Eyes II. ix. 202 Good-bye till we meet, clothed and in our right minds, by the fireside at home! 1918Galsworthy 5 Tales 232 Clothed, but not quite in their right minds, they went up all together to the hotel and sat down to tea. 1931I. Compton-Burnett Men & Wives xii. 157 We heard that you were clothed and in your right mind, Lady Haslam, but nothing would do for Mother but that I should come to inquire. [1961Bible (N.E.B.) Mark v. 15 The madman..sitting there clothed and in his right mind.] |