单词 | disobedient |
释义 | disobedientadj.n. A. adj. a. Withholding obedience; refusing or failing to obey; neglectful or not observant of authoritative command; guilty of breach of prescribed duty; refractory, rebellious. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [adjective] > disobedient unhersomeOE inobedient1377 disobeisantc1381 unobeisanta1382 inobeisant1382 unobedientc1384 disobeyant1422 unobeishinga1425 unobeying?c1425 disobedient1535 recusant1593 inobsequent1604 disobeying1649 disobservant1672 14.. Why I can't be a Nun 272 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 145 A-nother lady..That hyȝt dame dysobedyent..set nowȝt by her priores. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cv. 7 Oure fathers..were dishobedient at the see. 1549 J. Cheke Hurt of Sedicion sig. B4 Howe is the kynge obeyed, whose wyseste, be wythstanded, the disobedientes [t] obeyed. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 687 Michael and his Powers went forth to tame These disobedient . View more context for this quotation 1819 P. B. Shelley Cenci iii. i. 48 Such was God's scourge for disobedient sons. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth xi, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. III. 313 These are not loving subjects, but disobedient rebels. b. transferred. Unyielding, intractable, stubborn. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things) wickc1330 riotous1340 wickeda1352 untreatablec1374 frowarda1400 inobedient1495 stubborn?1518 unwieldya1538 unruly1548 wieldlessa1560 hard1560 untoward1566 tickle1570 churlish1577 unwieldsome1579 rebellious1587 disobedient1588 unframeable1593 unwilling1593 untractable1601 unmanageable1606 intractable1607 surly1609 unwedgeablea1616 dogged1627 uncontrollable1648 obdurate1651 morose1652 uncompliant1659 sullen1678 unpliant1716 ungovernable1773 sulky1867 intractile1880 unwieldly1881 bunglesome1915 1588 J. Read tr. J. Arderne Treat. Fistula in tr. F. Arcaeus Compend. Method 101 Growing nigh to the manner of a cancer, and disobedient to any medicine. 1828 in N. Webster Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. (at cited word) Medicines..rendering peculiar parts of the system disobedient to stimuli. Darwin. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present iii. x. 259 Disobedient Cotton-fibre, which will not..consent to cover bare backs. A disobedient or refractory person. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > [noun] > insubordinate person > disobedient person disobedientiary1537 disobeisant1542 disobedient1548 inobedient1548 recusant1599 disobeyerc1600 flint1765 1548 Act 2 & 3 Edw. VI c. 23. §2 Inflicting all such Pains upon the Disobedients. c1650 J. Spalding Memorialls Trubles Scotl. & Eng. (1850) I. 123 Refuseris to subscrive the covenant..and vther disobedientis. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.n.14.. |
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