单词 | darkener |
释义 | darkenern. 1. A person who or thing which obscures, esp. by causing confusion or lack of understanding. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > teacher > [noun] > false teacher darkener1534 non-edificanta1625 by-teacher1633 errorist1647 erronist1654 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > one who or that which darkens darkener1534 eclipser1594 1534 G. Joye in tr. Jeremy Prophete Pref. sig. A.viv The Prophetis be the expowners & declarers of the lawe & not ye obscurers and derkeners there of. 1630 R. Brathwait Eng. Gentleman 8 A great darkner and blemisher of the..beautie of the minde. 1776 G. Campbell Philos. of Rhetoric I. i. ii. 54 A sophister, or darkener of the understanding. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt III. xxxvii. 48 That feminine darkener of counsel. 1982 Classical Q. 32 272 The underlying conception of envy is as a darkener and defiler. 2. A substance or agent used to make something darker in tone or colour.In later use frequently with modifying word indicating the thing which is made darker, as in lash darkener, eyebrow darkener, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > beautification of the person > beautification of the face > [noun] > cosmetics for the face > for the eyes > colour for lids and brows stibiuma1398 stibie1548 calliblephary1601 stibic stone1609 alcohol1615 eyebrow pencil1779 kohl1799 surma1819 darkener1847 mascara1886 eye-black1912 eye shadow1922 eyeshade1923 shadow1936 1847 A. Saussure Manly Beauty in Athenæum (1848) 25 Mar. 313/3 The most innocent darkener of the brow is the expressed juice of the elderberry or a burnt clove. 1867 Harper's Bazar 21 Dec. 123/1 The solid india-ink eye-brow darkener. 1914 Manch. Courier 7 May 9/3 The darkener should be applied judiciously, so that the effect appears perfectly natural. 1942 Gloucester Jrnl. 24 Oct. 11/3 Ordinary blacking is being disguised for use as an eye darkener. 1980 Art Bull. 62 306/2 The blue neutralizer in four-color painting was perhaps thought of not as a color but as a darkener. 2004 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 12 Oct. (Final ed.) f1 He invented a lash darkener made of coal dust and Vaseline. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). < n.1534 |
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