单词 | concealed |
释义 | concealedadj. 1. a. Hidden, disguised; kept secret.Recorded earliest in concealed land n. at Compounds. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adjective] dernc897 dighela1000 hid?c1225 stillc1275 stillyc1275 covertc1303 secrec1374 secret1399 secretivec1470 covered1484 dark1532 underhid1532 hiddena1547 concealed1558 abstruse1576 unshewing1598 mystical1600 of secreta1616 mystica1625 subterraneous1652 researched1653 hugger-mugger1692 hidlingsa1810 sub rosa1824 cachet1837 cloak and dagger1841 theftuous1881 q.t.1910 closet1966 down-low1991 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [adjective] > hidden dighela1000 dernc1000 wriena1250 privyc1300 unshewedc1386 wrapped1398 quatc1425 tectc1440 blinda1522 coucheda1522 dark1532 lurkingc1540 velated1542 hiddena1547 inclusive1554 concealed1558 secret1559 occult1567 disguised1594 occulted1598 derned1600 shrouded1600 latent1605 abstrused1608 supposed1608 unshown1614 enshielda1616 retruse1623 dissembled1631 researched1636 recondite1649 delitescent1653 larved1654 tected1657 bedilt1660 bosomed1667 inhidden1674 underground1677 abditive1727 secreted1756 unextruded1808 unprotruded1812 undisplayed1822 larvated1832 dissimulated1838 latescent1852 squat1956 1558 [see concealed land n. at Compounds]. 1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes i. f. 7 Is the trauell greater in secret and conceled loue, then in that which is discouered and open? 1588 W. Allen Admon. to Nobility & People 20 Her vnlawfull longe concealded or fained yssue. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet iii. iii. 97 What sayes My conceal'd Lady to our canceld [1623 conceal'd] loue? View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) v. ii. 139 To diue like Buckets in concealed Welles. View more context for this quotation a1658 B. Rudyerd Prince d'amour (1660) 63 He shall be enquired of as a concealed Moyle or Ass in whom there is no understanding. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 291. ¶7 To discover the concealed Beauties of a Writer. 1753 W. Melmoth tr. Cicero Lett. II. vi. i. 11 The most concealed and unfrequented paths of philosophy. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. ii. 210 She had been, during some years, a concealed Roman Catholic. 1887 J. W. Buel Sea & Land xxix. 570 The deadly spears are dropped perpendicularly by the concealed hunters. 1936 ‘P. Quentin’ Puzzle for Fools xii. 95 I began to wonder whether she stole cards from a concealed pack. 2004 Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Apr. 4/2 Such stagey Victorian appurtenances as wills, disputed inheritances, legal subterfuge and concealed identities. b. Of a weapon: kept hidden on one's person when carried in public. Frequently used in the context of the illegal or prohibited act of carrying a concealed weapon, (now) esp. without a permit or licence. ΚΠ 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον iii. 148 All the women opening their garments at once, shewed their concealed weapons. 1689 J. Heath Eng. Chron. f. 85v Getting admittance into the Cathedral Church at Canterbury, took their opportunity, with concealed Weapons, to fall upon him, as he stood in the Evening Service time before the high Altar. 1767 Ann. Reg., Hist. Europe 15/2 The prohibition of concealed weapons, and disguises, would have prevented many of those disorders. 1801 M. Edgeworth Belinda I. xii. 352 'Tis like concealed weapons, which are wisely forbidden by law. 1895 Denver Times 5 Mar. 8/5 During the scuffle Miss Alderfer..saw the ‘black jack’ up his sleeve,..and as a result, swore out the concealed weapons charge. 1919 J. J. Skehan & J. P. Conway Pract. Police Work vii. 102 The law requires that a person must have a permit..to carry a concealed firearm. 1972 Los Angeles Sentinel 27 July a3/7 The infractions were minor until he was ‘busted’ for carrying a concealed weapon. 1993 B. Mukherjee Holder of World (1994) 262 There a Tatar slave woman with thick, tatooed arms stripped and scrutinized her for concealed weapons. 2005 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 6 Feb. ix. 11/3 Carrying a concealed blade longer than four inches is illegal in New York. 2. Designating a style of lighting in which the fittings are recessed or hidden from view. Chiefly in concealed lighting. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > [adjective] > concealed lighting concealed1894 1894 National Electric Light Assoc. 17th Convent. 200 The concealed lighting in the Cyclorama of the Hawaiian volcano. 1930 ‘E. Queen’ French Powder Myst. iii. 23 The lighting features were all of the ‘concealed’ variety rapidly gaining vogue on the Continent. 1943 G. Greene Ministry of Fear i. vi. 98 Interminable corridors lit by concealed lighting. 1961 Life 4 Aug. 8/2 The soft, adjustable, concealed lighting reveals rich satin brocade bedspreads. 2002 Guardian 2 Nov. (Weekend Suppl.) 103/2 A joiner can easily build a slot for concealed lighting into a custom-built wardrobe or cupboard. Compounds concealed carry n. U.S. the practice of carrying a concealed firearm on one's person in public; an instance of this; often attributive; cf. open carry n. at open adj. Compounds 3. ΚΠ 1982 Right to keep & bear Arms: Rep. U.S. Senate Judiciary Comm. (97th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 62 A similar technique was used to construe Missouri's 1875 carrying ban to apply only to concealed carry. 1984 J. Ahern Takers ix. 63 The cops had given him back his gun. He had a concealed carry permit for it in Georgia, anyway. 1986 Mailing Dangerous Martial Arts Weapons: Hearing before U.S. Senate Judiciary Comm. (99th Congr., 1st Sess.) 86 Maryland prohibits concealed carries. 2014 Realtor May 4 Concealed carry is now the law of the land. concealed land n. Law (a) (now historical) land held and believed to be owned privately, but to which the Crown has an ancient or alleged right, esp. land held by the monasteries before the Reformation; cf. concealment n. 2, concealer n. 2; (b) (chiefly with reference to India) land held unofficially or illegally. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > a legal holding > [noun] > held directly from Crown > by a person without title concealed land1558 1558 Act 4 & 5 Philip & Mary i. f. iiiv The same manoures, landes, tenementes, or other hereditamentes, so conteyned in any suche letters patentes, were concealed landes. 1632 Pulton's Coll. Sundrie Statutes (new ed.) 1381 (margin) The King shall recouer no concealed Lands..unlesse it may be proued, that hee had right, or title thereunto. 1654 T. Fuller 2 Serm. 23 Concealed Lands belonged anciently to the King. 1750 C. Smith Antient & Present State Cork I. i. iii. 95 Sir J. Fullerton..had only letters patent granted him to possess concealed lands. 1830 J. Briggs Present Land-tax India ii. ii. 262 A great increase of revenue from what appeared to be concealed land. 1908 Proc. Dorset Nat. Hist. & Antiq. Field Club 29 33 Some few [monastic lands] were ‘discovered’ in Elizabeth's reign as concealed land. 2006 P. C. Bansil Poverty Mapping in Rajasthan ii. 77 There has also been no progress in the detection of concealed land and the distribution to the landless rural poor. Derivatives conˈcealedly adv. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > [adverb] stillyc1000 dernlyc1175 dernea1200 privement?c1225 hidlingsa1250 in hidela1300 in scubardisa1300 stilla1300 hidel-likea1325 privyc1330 ywryȝeliche1340 in secre wysec1374 hidinglya1382 hidlya1382 in privy1384 closea1387 secrelyc1386 stalworthlya1400 covertlyc1400 secrec1405 in hidlings1422 secretly1447 secretementc1470 in secret1474 hugger-muggera1529 in hugger-mugger1529 secret1539 underboard1548 closely1552 darkly1559 in secret wise1563 hiddenly1580 tectly1587 underwater1600 concealedly1622 underground1632 occultly1641 in petto1647 under the rosea1704 subterraneously1791 suppressedly1825 underfoot1860 1622 G. Wither Faire-virtue sig. L5v Shee, that Faire-one is; whom I, Here haue prais'd, concealedly. 1653 J. Gauden Hieraspistes 379 Worldly lusts, passions, and interests slily creep in, and concealedly worke in their hearts. 1864 Atlantic Monthly Feb. 140/1 Man is microcosmic and macrocosmic. Natural and supernatural meet concealedly in the out-world, but openly in him. 1964 J. Stone Legal Syst. viii. 315 Such choices are informed, openly or concealedly, by views of policy. conˈcealedness n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > [noun] > concealed condition hiding?c1225 concealment1608 latency1615 delitescence1632 concealedness1635 latentness1660 abscondment1694 delitescencya1697 occultation1758 latence1794 caving1867 1635 T. Heywood Philocothonista xxi. 90 God seeth us, whose eyes peirce into..the concealednesse of Eternitie. 1670 C. Cotton tr. G. Girard Hist. Life Duke of Espernon ii. vi. 281 The favour of Concino..began..to appear out of the conceal'dness, and obscurity, where it had till now lain hid. 1727 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. II Occultness, hiddenness, concealedness. 2009 C. Fujiwara J. Lewis 40 A cinema of faces: their expressiveness or concealedness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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