单词 | defeatment |
释义 | † defeatmentn. Obsolete. 1. A defeat in battle or war. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [noun] confusionc1290 scomfit13.. cumber1303 discomfitc1330 scomfitingc1333 discomfiturea1400 scomfiturea1400 discomfitingc1405 overthrowc1440 male journey1455 overset1456 foilc1478 discomforture1485 supprise1488 reversea1529 distrage?1548 loss1548 defeat1553 underdeal1553 discomfort1589 defeatment1598 defeature1598 rufflec1600 defeatance1608 routa1616 Caudine Forks1619 disrout1623 conviction1631 bang1644 derout1644 conquest1677 drubbing1769 check1793 thrashing1797 sauve-qui-peut1815 debacle1847 smash1888 pasting1942 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres iv. 98 The cause of many defeatments. 1699 S. Willard Man of War 18 Most of our Surprizes and Defeatments by the Enemies, have deserved to be imputed to this. 1733 J. Millner Compend. Jrnl. 167 The Seat of the War was wholly in Flanders, removed thither by the French Defeatment. 1779 McLaughlin & Creery Let. 26 Feb. in B. Franklin Papers (1990) XXVIII. 614 We went to New York, and there remain'd untill the defaitment—from thence we retrait'd to harlon. 2. The prevention of the progress, success, or realization of something; frustration of a plan or purpose; an instance of this. Cf. defeat n. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > of plans, etc. defeat1581 defeature1583 defeatment1611 1611 R. Bolton Disc. State True Happinesse 146 A timely discouerie and wise defeatment of Satans stratagems and policies. 1647 J. Sprigge Anglia Rediviva i. vi. 48 Had these Letters bin delivered to the King (as they might have bin but for this defeatment). 1674 J. Owen in S. Annesley Suppl. to Morning-exercise at Cripple-gate xxviii. 615 The defeatment of these advantages. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel 261 In defeatment of his Power and Laws in the Church. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1598 |
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