单词 | honoured |
释义 | honouredhonoredadj. 1. Held in or worthy of honour; highly esteemed or respected; distinguished, dignified; celebrated.age-, all-, time-honoured: see the first elements. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > good repute > reputability or honourableness > [adjective] faireOE wortheOE worthlyeOE worthfulOE menskful?c1225 toldc1275 digne1297 of price?a1300 worshiply1340 worthya1350 menska1375 thriftyc1374 worshipfula1375 worthilya1375 honesta1382 honourablec1384 unshamedc1384 sada1387 of reputationc1390 well-nameda1393 reverent1398 worthy (worshipful, wise) in wanea1400 celebrable?c1400 honouredc1400 worshipablec1425 substantialc1449 undefameda1450 unreviled?1457 honorousa1500 reputed?1532 well-thought-ona1533 well-spoken1539 credible1543 undespised?1548 imitable1550 famous1555 undistained1565 undefame1578 untarred1579 well-reputed1583 unsoiledc1592 dishonourless1595 well-deemed1595 nameworthy1598 regardful1600 indisgraced1606 credenta1616 undishonoureda1616 unscandalized1618 unscandalous1618 unslandered1622 untainted1627 dignousa1636 undisparaged1636 considerable1641 unbranded1641 glorifiable1651 reputable1671 unsullied1743 unstigmatized1778 undisgraced1812 unstained1863 well-thought-of1865 uncompromised1882 scandal-proof1904 cred1987 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) l. 2412 Myn honoured ladyeȝ..þus hor knyȝt wyth hor kest han koyntly bigyled. 1523 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles I. lxxvii. 98 The moste douted and honoured prince. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) i. iii. 152 I am from humble, he from honored name. View more context for this quotation 1644 Sir S. Luke in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. IV. 222 Honoured Sir, Give mee leave to beg your favour. ?1765 C. Lucas Cursory Remarks Bath & Bristol Waters 41 You and the rest of my honored friends of the college were pleased to judge me well versed in Chemistry. 1798 M. Pilkington Mirror for Female Sex 99 To precede his royal guest, and make preparations for the honoured visit. 1809 S. T. Coleridge Friend 19 Oct. 149 Have I then endeavoured to connect public odium with his honoured name? 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xvii. 40 There Ken passed a happy and honoured old age. 1903 Humanitarian Mar. 104 An honoured place among the prophet-poets of democracy. 1974 R. J. Smethurst Social Basis for Prewar Japanese Militarism iv. 106 He became an honored member of the community. 2003 Eastern Eye 3 Oct. 80/3 They are our honoured guests and we will ensure nothing goes wrong. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of articles of clothing > [adjective] > crowned or coroneted crownedc1405 coronetty1688 honoured1688 imperially crowned1715 navally crowned1816 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. vii. 138/2. This Lion..is crowned with a Coronett is termed a Lion (in such or such a posture) honored..and no otherwise anciently, though now we say crowned. ?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Ff3v Honoured or Crowned, the former term is sometimes used in old blazon when any animal, &c. is borne crowned. Compounds Honoured Society n. (also with lower-case initials) [after Italian onorata società (1888 or earlier), so called with allusion to the organization's code of honour] (usually with the) (a name for) the Camorra (camorra n. 2); (in later use also more generally) any of various organized crime syndicates originating in southern Italy; the Mafia. ΚΠ 1904 S. Fitzgerald Naples iv. 69 The full meaning of the word ‘Camorra’ (or ‘Honoured Society’, as the Camorristi call it) is probably known only by the Neapolitans themselves. 1959 E. J. Hobsbawm Primitive Rebels (1963) iii. 49 The so-called Honoured Society ('ndranghita, fibbia) has long been known to one and all in Southern Calabria. 1972 New York 7 Aug. 7/1 The main responsibility of the..gang to the honored society, however, is to bring in the Mafia recruits. 2006 Herald Sun (Melbourne) (Nexis) 8 Feb. 9 The Honoured Society is a worldwide Calabrian gang with a major presence in Australia, specialising in marijuana, protection rackets and fraud. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1400 |
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