单词 | immartial |
释义 | immartialadj. Now rare. ΚΠ 1584 W. Warner Pan his Syrinx sig. P4v Newes of Tymaetes his immartial imprisonment, was anon conuaied into Licia. 2. Not martial or military; unwarlike. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacific character or disposition > [adjective] > unwarlike unwarlike1590 immartial1598 imbellious1602 imbellic1623 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iii. 52 Assay not me like one, Yong and immartiall. ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) ix. 638 To oppose their least Against a man immartial, and a guest. 1743 J. Highmore Dettingen 8 In Dancing Air, the Enemy they meet..And all who can't do this..Suffer, as guilty of immartial Crime. 1796 W. Amphlett Triumphs of War 9 Low on the earth Persia Immartial lies; so falls, so fades the glare Of Sublunary grandeur! 1848 ‘J. Kirkland’ Eerie Laird iii. 41 Yet these beings..are the most immartial men known. 1890 Trans. Med. Soc. Calif. 20 279 The date and herb-fed son of the desert, raised..to the immartial life of a simple shepherd. 1990 M. E. Lewis Sanctioned Violence in Early China iii. 133 Tales in which weak, immartial, or even crippled men defeated great warriors or powerful armies. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1584 |
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