darklingn.¹

Brit.

/ˈdɑːklɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdɑrklɪŋ/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dark n., -ling suffix¹.

Etymology: < dark n. + -ling suffix¹.

†1. An evil person; (also) a person who lacks knowledge; an unenlightened person. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil and dark > [noun] > person

darkling1633

society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > evil or dark > person

darkling1633

1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. xix.) 350 Let a childe of light be brought into the ring or circle of these darklings; who are indeed the Epitome and abridgement of that greater world which lyes in wickednesse.

1696 C. Ness 4th Vol. Sacred Hist.& Myst. New-Test. ii. i. 331 Christ tells the Disciples he would not leave them Orphans or Darklings [Note:] John 14.18.

1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) i. 629 I'll catch Th' impetuous darkling [i.e. Cain] at his first recoil, And temporize his hatred to my wish!

1865 Eclectic Rev. Feb. iv. 177 Dullards and darklings may be excused for believing that a strong hand and an outstretched arm may really have been needed to force Pharaoh to let his captives go.

1929 Times 11 Oct. 21/4 Let them take these darklings by the hand and lead them gently on the ascending path.

2. Esp. in science fiction and fantasy: a supernatural being or creature associated with the dark, esp. an evil or dangerous one.

ΚΠ

1873 Cleveland (Ohio) Morning Daily Herald 10 Mar. A report of a Spiritualist seance, in which was described how the ‘darklings’ (?) unloosened a pair of shackles from the wrists of one R. H. Winslow, a medium from Chicago.

1942 Future Oct. 53/1 What were these darklings? Surely not ghosts!

2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 99 It's been personally blessed by the Spirit of the Age, which gives it a serious edge against superstitionists and darklings.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021).

darklingadv.adj.

Brit.

/ˈdɑːklɪŋ/, U.S.

/ˈdɑrklɪŋ/

Forms: see dark adj. and -ling suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dark adj., -ling suffix².

Etymology: < dark adj. + -ling suffix². Compare flatling adv., grovelling adv., α. forms at halflings adv. and adj., etc.In branch B. often interpreted as an adjective in -ing suffix²: compare darkle v.

†A. adv.

In the dark; in darkness. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adverb] > in the dark

darkling?c1450

darklong1561

darklins1600

overdark1847

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 21 She wolde not come in mennis chaumbres bi night derkelyng withoute candell.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 92 O, wilt thou darkling leaue me?

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 39 The wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note.

1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 406. ⁋7 Darkling and tir'd we shall the Marshes tread.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xxvi. 39 Wilfrid is..destined, darkling, to pursue Ambition's maze by Oswald's clue.

B. adj. Chiefly literary and poetic.

1. Dark (in various figurative senses); hidden; obscure; unenlightened; unhappy.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective]

higheOE

dighela1000

deepc1000

darkOE

starkOE

dusk?c1225

subtle1340

dimc1350

subtilea1393

covert1393

mystica1398

murka1400

cloudyc1400

hard?c1400

mistyc1400

unclearc1400

diffuse1430

abstractc1450

diffused?1456

exquisitec1460

obnubilous?a1475

obscure?a1475

covered1484

intricate?a1500

nice?a1500

perplexeda1500

difficilea1513

difficult1530

privy1532

smoky1533

secret1535

abstruse?1549

difficul1552

entangled1561

confounded1572

darksome1574

obnubilate1575

enigmatical1576

confuse1577

mysteriousa1586

Delphic1598

obfuscatea1600

enfumed1601

Delphicala1603

obstruse1604

abstracted1605

confused1611

questionable1611

inevident1614

recondite1619

cryptic1620

obfuscated1620

transcendent1624

Delphian1625

oraculous1625

enigmatic1628

recluse1629

abdite1635

undilucidated1635

clouded1641

benighted1647

oblite1650

researched1653

obnubilated1658

obscurative1664

tenebrose1677

hyperbyssal1691

condite1695

diffusive1709

profound1710

tenebricose1730

oracular1749

opaque1761

unenlightening1768

darkling1795

offuscating1798

unrecognizable1817

tough1820

abstrusive1848

obscurant1878

out-of-focus1891

unplumbable1895

inenubilable1903

non-transparent1939

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective]

darkOE

murka1400

cloudyc1400

mistyc1400

unclearc1400

obturate?a1425

obscure?a1439

unplain?c1535

obumbilatec1540

abstruse?1549

darksome1574

mysteriousa1586

obstruse1604

muddy1611

unperspicuous1634

clouded1641

imperspicuous1654

cramp1674

unlucid1711

abstract1725

opaque1761

obumbratory1799

darkling1813

sludgy1901

1689 N. Lee Princess of Cleve ii. iii. 24 Your Darklin Mistress the first shou'd come in my way, Iove and Europa, I'd leap her in thy Face.

1795 G. Wakefield Reply 2nd Pt. Age of Reason 24 To let the sun of your intellect shine out..for the illumination of us darkling mortals.

1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. xiii. 294 Darkling was the sense; the phrase And language those of other days.

1878 E. White Life in Christ (ed. 3) iii. xix. 257 Some darkling sensation of pleasure or pain.

1996 M. Cheek Sleeping Beauties v. 42 At that precise and darkling hour in his life a new light had entered.

2. Of, relating to, or associated with the dark or the night; carried out or occurring in the dark or at night.In quot. 1695, Hume is commenting on Milton’s use in ‘the wakeful Bird Sings darkling’ (see quot. 1667 at sense A.), but uses darkling adjectivally to describe the nightingale. Cf. similarly quot. 1859.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > being or taking place in the dark

darklinga1762

1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost iii. 100 Thus the Nightingale is called Darkling, chearing the Night with its Charming Serenade.

a1762 Lady M. W. Montagu Upon Riddles in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 64 Ye writers..O spare your darkling labours!

1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. iv. 43 Here like darkling nightingales they sit.

1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. xvi. 286 The mother and son hurried on upon their darkling journey.

2001 tr. S. Ghose Shock Therapy 22 A darkling owl shudders and sits quiet on the branch of a tree.

3. Growing dark or characterized by darkness; dark; dim, gloomy.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective]

blinda1000

darkOE

lightlessOE

murkOE

therka1325

murkfula1400

unsheena1400

tenebrousc1420

tenebrose1490

tenebrate1492

sable?a1513

unlightsome1574

tenebrious1594

blindfold1601

Stygian1602

dayless1657

unenlightened1662

darklinga1718

rayless1727

tenebrific1786

twinkless1830

transdiurnal1848

glimmerless1889

gleamless1891

unlightened1896

a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 34 With weary Steps he quits the Shades, Resolv'd the darkling Dome he treads.

1739 P. Whitehead Manners 3 A doleful tenant of the darkling Cell.

1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead ii And by the darkling forest-paths the Gods Follow'd.

1901 F. H. Trench Deirdre Wed 32 Far up, where darkling copses over-grow Scarps of the gray cliff from his river'd base.

2001 P. Goldsworthy This goes with That 97 The silver snail of the moon Creeps across the darkling sky.

4. That darkens or obscures.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure > darkening or obscuring

obscuring1594

filmy1691

tenebrificous1714

overcasting1739

darkling1801

tenebrific1825

1801 H. J. Pye Alfred iv. 132 As, through the darkling mist, a transient beam Of setting day oft throws a golden gleam.

1890 J. R. Lowell Poems IV. 122 As many poets with their rhymes Oblivion's darkling dust o'erwhelms.

2001 R. D. Outram Dove Legend 40 In her wiles Insidious As darkling fog.

Compounds

darkling beetle n. any beetle of the large family Tenebrionidae, the members of which are mainly scavengers of plant material, and include cellar and flour beetles (cf. tenebrionid n.).Originally spec. denoting the cellar beetle Blaps mortisaga, which is black in colour and often found in dark places.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Tenebrionidae > blaps mortisaga (darkling-beetle)

darkling beetle1817

tenebrio1753

darkling beetle1841

tenebrionid1921

1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxi. 242 Pliny tells us of a Blatta,—which, from his description, is evidently the darkling-beetle (Blaps mortisaga, F.).

1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 11 There are others [sc. fungus-eaters], such as the stag-beetles (Lucanidæ), some spring-beetles (Elateridæ), darkling beetles (Tenebrionidæ) and many bark-beetles.

1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 349 The darkling beetles are nearly all of a uniform black color, but they vary greatly in size.

2015 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 8 Sept. b7/1 Mealworms and superworms aren't actually worms at all—they're the larval forms of two species of darkling beetles.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	darkling
释义	darklingn.¹ Brit. /ˈdɑːklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɑrklɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dark n., -ling suffix¹. Etymology: < dark n. + -ling suffix¹. †1. An evil person; (also) a person who lacks knowledge; an unenlightened person. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > evil and dark > [noun] > person darkling1633 society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > evil or dark > person darkling1633 1633 T. Adams Comm. 2 Peter (i. xix.) 350 Let a childe of light be brought into the ring or circle of these darklings; who are indeed the Epitome and abridgement of that greater world which lyes in wickednesse. 1696 C. Ness 4th Vol. Sacred Hist.& Myst. New-Test. ii. i. 331 Christ tells the Disciples he would not leave them Orphans or Darklings [Note:] John 14.18. 1773 J. Ross Fratricide (MS) i. 629 I'll catch Th' impetuous darkling [i.e. Cain] at his first recoil, And temporize his hatred to my wish! 1865 Eclectic Rev. Feb. iv. 177 Dullards and darklings may be excused for believing that a strong hand and an outstretched arm may really have been needed to force Pharaoh to let his captives go. 1929 Times 11 Oct. 21/4 Let them take these darklings by the hand and lead them gently on the ascending path. 2. Esp. in science fiction and fantasy: a supernatural being or creature associated with the dark, esp. an evil or dangerous one. ΚΠ 1873 Cleveland (Ohio) Morning Daily Herald 10 Mar. A report of a Spiritualist seance, in which was described how the ‘darklings’ (?) unloosened a pair of shackles from the wrists of one R. H. Winslow, a medium from Chicago. 1942 Future Oct. 53/1 What were these darklings? Surely not ghosts! 2007 C. Stross Halting State (2008) 99 It's been personally blessed by the Spirit of the Age, which gives it a serious edge against superstitionists and darklings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). darklingn.² Brit. /ˈdɑːklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɑrklɪŋ/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: darkling adj. Etymology: < darkling adj. Now rare. A period of darkness, or in which darkness falls; the dark; nightfall. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] thesternessc888 thesterc897 murkOE theosterleykc1000 darkc1300 darkheadc1300 murknessa1325 therknessa1325 darknessc1350 tenebres1413 tenebrousa1450 obscurity1481 tenebrosity1490 obscureness1509 dern?a1513 sable?a1513 darksomeness1571 fuliginousness1576 darkishness1583 murksomeness1625 obscure1667 soot1789 tenebrity1789 nightness1839 raylessness1843 lightlessness1845 darkling1882 unlight1883 1882 G. Stables Cruise of Snowbird xvi. 215 She [sc. the ship] went down in the short darkling of a summer's night, a very few minutes after being struck. 1903 Westm. Gaz. 13 Jan. 2/3 At darkling of the moon. 1923 H. G. Wells Men like Gods i. vii. 112 He..blundered by two couples of lovers who whispered softly in the darkling. 1963 A. Garner Moon of Gomrath xiii. 102 Once Anghalac sounds you may not know peace again, not in the sun's circle nor in the darkling of the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021). darklingadv.adj. Brit. /ˈdɑːklɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈdɑrklɪŋ/ Forms: see dark adj. and -ling suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: dark adj., -ling suffix². Etymology: < dark adj. + -ling suffix². Compare flatling adv., grovelling adv., α. forms at halflings adv. and adj., etc.In branch B. often interpreted as an adjective in -ing suffix²: compare darkle v. †A. adv. In the dark; in darkness. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adverb] > in the dark darkling?c1450 darklong1561 darklins1600 overdark1847 ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 21 She wolde not come in mennis chaumbres bi night derkelyng withoute candell. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. ii. 92 O, wilt thou darkling leaue me? View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 39 The wakeful Bird Sings darkling, and in shadiest Covert hid Tunes her nocturnal Note. View more context for this quotation 1712 R. Steele Spectator No. 406. ⁋7 Darkling and tir'd we shall the Marshes tread. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. xxvi. 39 Wilfrid is..destined, darkling, to pursue Ambition's maze by Oswald's clue. B. adj. Chiefly literary and poetic. 1. Dark (in various figurative senses); hidden; obscure; unenlightened; unhappy. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > unintelligibility > depth, obscurity > [adjective] higheOE dighela1000 deepc1000 darkOE starkOE dusk?c1225 subtle1340 dimc1350 subtilea1393 covert1393 mystica1398 murka1400 cloudyc1400 hard?c1400 mistyc1400 unclearc1400 diffuse1430 abstractc1450 diffused?1456 exquisitec1460 obnubilous?a1475 obscure?a1475 covered1484 intricate?a1500 nice?a1500 perplexeda1500 difficilea1513 difficult1530 privy1532 smoky1533 secret1535 abstruse?1549 difficul1552 entangled1561 confounded1572 darksome1574 obnubilate1575 enigmatical1576 confuse1577 mysteriousa1586 Delphic1598 obfuscatea1600 enfumed1601 Delphicala1603 obstruse1604 abstracted1605 confused1611 questionable1611 inevident1614 recondite1619 cryptic1620 obfuscated1620 transcendent1624 Delphian1625 oraculous1625 enigmatic1628 recluse1629 abdite1635 undilucidated1635 clouded1641 benighted1647 oblite1650 researched1653 obnubilated1658 obscurative1664 tenebrose1677 hyperbyssal1691 condite1695 diffusive1709 profound1710 tenebricose1730 oracular1749 opaque1761 unenlightening1768 darkling1795 offuscating1798 unrecognizable1817 tough1820 abstrusive1848 obscurant1878 out-of-focus1891 unplumbable1895 inenubilable1903 non-transparent1939 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > obscurity > [adjective] darkOE murka1400 cloudyc1400 mistyc1400 unclearc1400 obturate?a1425 obscure?a1439 unplain?c1535 obumbilatec1540 abstruse?1549 darksome1574 mysteriousa1586 obstruse1604 muddy1611 unperspicuous1634 clouded1641 imperspicuous1654 cramp1674 unlucid1711 abstract1725 opaque1761 obumbratory1799 darkling1813 sludgy1901 1689 N. Lee Princess of Cleve ii. iii. 24 Your Darklin Mistress the first shou'd come in my way, Iove and Europa, I'd leap her in thy Face. 1795 G. Wakefield Reply 2nd Pt. Age of Reason 24 To let the sun of your intellect shine out..for the illumination of us darkling mortals. 1813 W. Scott Rokeby vi. xiii. 294 Darkling was the sense; the phrase And language those of other days. 1878 E. White Life in Christ (ed. 3) iii. xix. 257 Some darkling sensation of pleasure or pain. 1996 M. Cheek Sleeping Beauties v. 42 At that precise and darkling hour in his life a new light had entered. 2. Of, relating to, or associated with the dark or the night; carried out or occurring in the dark or at night.In quot. 1695, Hume is commenting on Milton’s use in ‘the wakeful Bird Sings darkling’ (see quot. 1667 at sense A.), but uses darkling adjectivally to describe the nightingale. Cf. similarly quot. 1859. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > being or taking place in the dark darklinga1762 1695 P. Hume Annot. Paradise Lost iii. 100 Thus the Nightingale is called Darkling, chearing the Night with its Charming Serenade. a1762 Lady M. W. Montagu Upon Riddles in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems (1763) V. 64 Ye writers..O spare your darkling labours! 1859 G. Meredith Ordeal Richard Feverel II. iv. 43 Here like darkling nightingales they sit. 1863 M. Oliphant Salem Chapel I. xvi. 286 The mother and son hurried on upon their darkling journey. 2001 tr. S. Ghose Shock Therapy 22 A darkling owl shudders and sits quiet on the branch of a tree. 3. Growing dark or characterized by darkness; dark; dim, gloomy. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] blinda1000 darkOE lightlessOE murkOE therka1325 murkfula1400 unsheena1400 tenebrousc1420 tenebrose1490 tenebrate1492 sable?a1513 unlightsome1574 tenebrious1594 blindfold1601 Stygian1602 dayless1657 unenlightened1662 darklinga1718 rayless1727 tenebrific1786 twinkless1830 transdiurnal1848 glimmerless1889 gleamless1891 unlightened1896 a1718 T. Parnell Poems Several Occasions (1721) 34 With weary Steps he quits the Shades, Resolv'd the darkling Dome he treads. 1739 P. Whitehead Manners 3 A doleful tenant of the darkling Cell. 1855 M. Arnold Balder Dead ii And by the darkling forest-paths the Gods Follow'd. 1901 F. H. Trench Deirdre Wed 32 Far up, where darkling copses over-grow Scarps of the gray cliff from his river'd base. 2001 P. Goldsworthy This goes with That 97 The silver snail of the moon Creeps across the darkling sky. 4. That darkens or obscures. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure > darkening or obscuring obscuring1594 filmy1691 tenebrificous1714 overcasting1739 darkling1801 tenebrific1825 1801 H. J. Pye Alfred iv. 132 As, through the darkling mist, a transient beam Of setting day oft throws a golden gleam. 1890 J. R. Lowell Poems IV. 122 As many poets with their rhymes Oblivion's darkling dust o'erwhelms. 2001 R. D. Outram Dove Legend 40 In her wiles Insidious As darkling fog. Compounds darkling beetle n. any beetle of the large family Tenebrionidae, the members of which are mainly scavengers of plant material, and include cellar and flour beetles (cf. tenebrionid n.).Originally spec. denoting the cellar beetle Blaps mortisaga, which is black in colour and often found in dark places. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Tenebrionidae > blaps mortisaga (darkling-beetle) darkling beetle1817 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Heteromera > family Tenebrionidae > member of tenebrio1753 darkling beetle1841 tenebrionid1921 1817 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. II. xxi. 242 Pliny tells us of a Blatta,—which, from his description, is evidently the darkling-beetle (Blaps mortisaga, F.). 1841 T. W. Harris Rep. Insects Massachusetts 11 There are others [sc. fungus-eaters], such as the stag-beetles (Lucanidæ), some spring-beetles (Elateridæ), darkling beetles (Tenebrionidæ) and many bark-beetles. 1944 R. Matheson Entomol. for Introd. Courses xv. 349 The darkling beetles are nearly all of a uniform black color, but they vary greatly in size. 2015 Herald-Times (Bloomington, Indiana) 8 Sept. b7/1 Mealworms and superworms aren't actually worms at all—they're the larval forms of two species of darkling beetles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2021; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.¹1633n.²1882adv.adj.?c1450
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darklingn.1

darklingn.2

darklingadv.adj.

Compounds

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