α. 1500s– endungeon.
β. 1600s indungion, 1600s–1900s indungeon (rare).
单词 | endungeon |
释义 | endungeonv.α. 1500s– endungeon. β. 1600s indungion, 1600s–1900s indungeon (rare). Chiefly literary and poetic. Now rare. transitive. To confine in or as if in a dungeon; to imprison (literal and figurative). ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > imprison [verb (transitive)] > imprison in a dungeon endungeon1599 dungeon1603 black-hole1834 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 56 Endungeond in his pocket a tweluemonth. 1618 C. David et al. Let. 19 Mar. in B. Churchman Answere to Hollanders Declar. (1622) sig. D2v At that time we being indungeoned at Pollaway,..we were..kept in such extreame miserie, [etc.]. 1653 J. Rogers Ohel or Beth-Shemesh i. ii. 15 Those wicked traditions, formes, and ordinances of men..have inbondaged, and endungeoned ye up in darknesse and deceit. 1705 E. Taylor in Poems (1960) 194 This bright lanthorns flaming light Endungeoning all Darkness underground. 1789 Eng. Chron. 22 Dec. The recruits were endungeoned the night before their departure. a1834 S. T. Coleridge Lit. Remains (1836) IV. 114 To endungeon, through the magistrate, the honest and peaceable Quaker. 1871 Fraser's Mag. Mar. 343/1 I was endungeoned in a labyrinth of grimy, busy streets. 1915 Theosophical Path Sept. 187 The Dey will trust so dangerous a man in no hands but his own; and so..endungeons him safely in the government prison. 2011 G. Dark Susie & Snow-it-alls xxxviii. 182 I couldn't bear to be endungeoned again. Derivatives enˈdungeoned adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adjective] > imprisoned > in a dungeon endungeoned1614 dungeoned1633 1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia i. 28 Mens soules descend not to..where the horrid mansion is Of lothsome deepe-indungion'd Dis. 1752 W. Goodall Adventures Capt. Greenland IV. x. iii. 20 As imperceptible to Narcissa, as to an Indungeon'd Prisoner. 1827 J. Montgomery Pelican Island ix. 163 'Twas a spectacle for angels..To see a dark endungeon'd spirit roused. 1917 Evening Sun (Hanover, Pa.) 1 Dec. 5/3 Exiles like Dante have hugged it [sc. the Bible] to the breast, endungeoned men like Bonventura have found it company. 2004 P. Rushforth Pinkerton's Sister ii. 391 The sound of an endungeoned prisoner struggling in his chains. enˈdungeoning n. rare ΚΠ 1729 Tryal W. Acton 1st Aug. 7 A Goaler [sic] cannot warrant the Ironing of any Debtor, or the Endungeoning of him upon any Pretence whatsoever. 1844 Movement No. 40. 333/1 To hear them tell of..christian yellings over christian endungeonings and gibbetings—oh! surely ‘by their fruits ye shall know them!’ 1997 R.-M. Réjouis & V. Vinokurov tr. P. Chamoiseau Texaco i. 50 One day he imprisoned the..black-man who had cured himself of a snake bite... During that man's endungeoning [Fr. encachotement] the plantation awoke [etc.]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1599 |
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