单词 | fedifragous |
释义 | † fedifragousadj.n. Obsolete. Pledge-breaking, faithless, perfidious. Also as n. with the: promise-breakers as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > wrongdoing > treachery or treason > [adjective] > perfidious trothlessc1175 proditorious?a1475 perfidiousa1538 truthless1567 fedifragous1600 false-hearta1616 fidious1640 society > morality > duty or obligation > recognition of duty > undutifulness > unfaithfulness > [adjective] > breaking pledge or agreement vow-breaking1533 fedifragous1600 1600 Abp. G. Abbot Expos. Prophet Ionah 359 Perfidious, and fedifragous, and barbarous Princes. 1632 J. Vicars tr. Virgil XII Aeneids xii. 384 Jove..whose thunders great Do truces tie, fright the fedifragous. 1651 Animadversions in C. Love Case 53 Such desultory and fedifragous practices. 1859 Dublin Univ. Mag. May 584/2 Remonstrated with him on his ‘fœdifragous’ and atrocious conduct at Drogheda and Wexford. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.n.1600 |
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