单词 | discoloured |
释义 | discoloureddiscoloredadj. 1. a. Altered from the usual or natural colour; changed to a duller or less natural colour; stained, tarnished; deprived of colour, pale. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > change of colour > [adjective] > having changed colour discoloureda1393 changeda1413 the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [adjective] > having lost colour fade1303 discoloureda1393 walloweda1400 discolorate?a1425 whitterish1679 fady1736 washed out1796 greyed-out1919 a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) viii. l. 1908 The descoloured pale hewe Is now become a rody cheke. c1450 (c1440) S. Scrope tr. C. de Pisan Epist. of Othea (Longleat) (1904) 31 Sche become throw here ensorgyng in envye..discolourd and grene as ivy leffe. a1500 ( J. Yonge tr. Secreta Secret. (Rawl.) (1898) 234 Who-so hath the visage litill and streyte, yelowe and discolourid, he is ful malicious. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. F2 With lanke, and leane discolour'd cheeke. View more context for this quotation 1628 O. Felltham Resolves: 2nd Cent. xxxvi. sig. O8 The eye is dimme, in the discoloured face; and the whole man becomes as if statued into stone and earth. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 256 Smooty and discoloured Clouds. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 2 All Manners take a tincture from our own, Or come discolour'd thro' our Passions shown. 1768 L. Sterne Sentimental Journey I. 86 The learned Smelfungus travelled from Boulogne to Paris,..but he set out with the spleen and jaundice, and every object he pass'd by was discoloured or distorted. 1840 F. D. Bennett Narr. Whaling Voy. II. 112 The green, or discoloured, water which marks the extent of D'Agulhas Bank. 1888 W. R. Gowers Man. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. iv. 403 The sclerotic after death was rotten and discoloured. 1908 A. Conan Doyle in Strand Mag. 36 247 With a slow smile he drew a folded and discoloured scrap of paper from his pocket. 1988 N. Bissoondath Casual Brutality xii. 254 Windows hung with discoloured lace. 2000 Daily Tel. 17 May 25/2 Her ankles swell and the skin is red, discoloured and itchy. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > heraldic tincture > [adjective] > natural colour > not discoloured1610 1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie iii. xii. 123 Foure footed Beasts, whether they be Borne Proper or Discoloured (that is to say, varying from their Naturall colour). a. Variously coloured; of different colours; variegated, particoloured. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > variegation > [adjective] fawa700 medleyc1350 freckledc1380 motleyc1380 pied1382 specked1382 vary1382 partyc1385 parted1393 peckleda1400 polymitec1425 sere-colouredc1425 vairc1425 discoloured?1440 motleyed1447 varying1488 sheld1507 fleckered1508 piet1508 mellay1515 particoloured1530 pickled1552 varied1578 mingled1580 partly coloured1582 chequered1592 medley-coloured1593 mingle-coloured1593 piebald1594 feathered1610 changeable1612 particolour1612 enamelled1613 variousa1618 pie-coloured1619 jaspered1620 gangean1623 versicolour1628 patchwork1634 damasked1648 variously-coloureda1660 variegateda1661 agated1665 varicoloured1665 damaska1674 various-coloureda1711 pieted1721 versicoloured1721 diversicoloured1756 mosaic1776 harlequin1779 spanged1788 calico1807 piety1811 varied-coloured1811 discolorate1826 heterochromous1842 jaspé1851 discolor1859 discolorous1860 jasperoid1876 damascened1879 heterochromatic1895 variotinted1903 batik1914 varihued1921 rumbled1930 damasky1931 pepper-and-salt1940 partihued1959 tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) iv. l. 836 (MED) Stalons best beth clere in oon coloured..hem that beth discoloured Excuse [L. nisi magnitudo meritorum culpam coloris excuset], and in a maner so exclude. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. ii. sig. B4v On his crauen crest A bounch of heares discolourd diuersly. a1596 G. Peele Loue King Dauid & Fair Bethsabe (1599) sig. Bij May that sweet plaine..Be still enameld with discoloured flowers. 1652 Ripley's Compend of Alchemy in E. Ashmole Theatrum Chemicum Britannicum 141 Wyth Flowers dyscoloryd bewtyosely to syght. 1660 F. Brooke tr. V. Le Blanc World Surveyed 307 Beautifyed with columns of discolour'd marble. 1700 J. Hopkins Gloria 2 Lightning Fancy, quick in Flashes breaks, And paints the guilded way with gay discolour'd streaks. b. Of two or more things: different from each other in colour. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1647 J. Cleveland Poems in Char. London-diurnall (Wing C4662) 28 Who askt the Banes 'twixt these discolour'd Mates? ΚΠ 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 250 Amo. And you haue still in your hat the former colours. Mer. You lie, sir, I haue none: I haue pull'd 'hem out. I meant to play discolour'd. Derivatives disˈcolouredness n. rare the state or quality of being discoloured. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > change of colour > [noun] discoloura1398 discolouring?a1425 discolouration1545 discolouredness1585 transcoloration1664 discolourment1762 discolorization1827 metachromatism1876 metachromism1876 metachrosis1887 tinctumutation1895 electrochromism1961 the world > matter > colour > state or mode of having colour > absence of colour > [noun] > loss of colour discoloura1398 palingc1450 discolouration1545 discolouredness1585 discolouring1598 decoloration1623 etiolation1784 discolourment1821 pallescence1822 discolorization1827 lightening1839 decolorizing1861 decolorization1871 1585 J. Banister Wecker's Compend. Chyrurg. iii. 411 An vlcer with..hardnesse and discolourednesse of lippes. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 77 Losing that discolouredness which appeared in the Fever. 2000 Chicago Rev. 46 No. 3–4. 140 Even the most intensive rays of sunlight would not brighten or even vaguely tint this discoloredness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1393 |
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