| 释义 |
ˈdeath-worthy, a.
Also 4 ded-.
Worthy or deserving of death.
a1300Cursor M. 11967 (Cott.) Quat has it don þis bodi, ded worþei to be? 1532More Confut. Barnes viii. Wks. 780/2 He was death worthy yt wythdrewe from god the mony which himself had giuen to god. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 635 This guilt would seen death-worthie in thy brother. 1882H. St. Clair Feilden Short Const. Hist. Eng. iv. 157 One [of Alfred's laws] makes treason deathworthy. |