单词 | disguisement |
释义 | disguisementn. 1. The fact of disguising, or of being disguised. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [noun] > act of disguising misguising1581 disguisement1583 disguising1587 vizarding1609 disguisea1616 disguisal1834 maskinga1933 cover-up1958 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie cxi. 684 That they might not be put out of countenance by any faire disguisement. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 82 To lend..an old gowne, and a blacke vaile for his disguisement. a1681 J. Pordage Theologia Mystica (1683) 130 Blessed are they who through all these wiles and disguisements can find him. 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 57 732 No disguisement of natural form is attempted. 1885 Times 13 Apr. 4/2 Such disguisement was always a direct infraction of international and military law. 2. That which disguises, or whereby disguising is effected; a disguise; a garb that conceals the wearer's identity. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > dress, garb > [noun] disguising1485 disguisementa1586 disguise1596 fancy dress1770 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xiv. sig. I7 Assuring my selfe, that vnder that disguisment, I should find opportunitie to reueal my self to the owner of my harte. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. vii. sig. Ii2v What mister wight..That in so straunge disguizement there did maske. 1801 J. Strutt Glig-gamena Angel-ðeod iii. iii. 171 Minstrels and persons in disguisements. 1823 C. Lamb Christ's Hosp. in Elia 38 In this disguisement he was brought into the hall. 1861 T. A. Trollope La Beata II. xvii. 186 To don a black disguisement, and put our own hands to the work of mercy. 3. plural. Additions or accessories that alter the appearance; adornments, bedizenments. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beautification > [noun] > ornamentation or decoration > an ornament ornamenta1382 paramentc1395 adornmentc1405 flower1542 furniture1548 furniments1553 bravery1577 grace1579 trim1579 honour1589 outsetc1590 parergy1592 trapping1596 adornation1597 parergon1601 accomplishment1605 bellishment1611 facing1622 decorement1632 embellishment1632 gallantry1633 ornamentals1650 disguisements1655 decorationa1678 buska1687 decorament1727 pretty1736 tahalli1833 chicken fixings1840 ornamentality1842 grace note1922 1655 R. Baker et al. tr. J. L. G. de Balzac Lett. 105 It hath paintings and disguisements, to alter the purity of all worldly things. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. ii. 4 Stripped of all the disguisements, and foreign mixtures cast upon them. 1867 D. G. Mitchell Rural Stud. 199 If the charming but costly disguisements of a park cannot be ventured upon at once. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1583 |
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