单词 | kindled |
释义 | kindledadj. 1. Of a fire, flame, or flammable material: set alight, ignited, burning.In later use frequently with modifying adverb or as the second element in compounds. ΚΠ Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 275 Kynlyd, as fyyr, accensus, succensus. ?1518 A. Barclay tr. D. Mancinus Myrrour Good Maners sig. Hiv Non closeth in a corner, a kyndled lumynary. 1581 T. Howell His Deuises sig. E.ij Kindled coales close kept, continue longest quick. c1632 in Athenæum 27 Jan. (1883) 121/3 When the furious Doggstarr raves throughout the Spanish soyle, which smoakes like kindled flax. 1660 R. Boyle New Exper. Physico-mechanicall xi. 78 Throughly kindled Wood-coals. 1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad VI. xxiii. 49 Th' attending Heralds..With kindled Flames the Tripod-Vase surround. 1752 M. Browne Sunday Thoughts (new ed.) iii, in Wks. & Rest of Creation 237 Walk in the Pilgrim-Spirit..thy kindled Lamp High-lifted in thy Hand. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. viii. 155 Blown, like a kindled rag, the sport of winds. 1858 Harper's Mag. Apr. 638/2 It was flame as pure as the heaven-kindled fires on the altar of the God of the Hebrews. 1923 Mariner's Mirror 9 213 A burning brand, lighted at a newly-kindled fire. 1996 J. Hegland Into Forest (1997) 69 Eva..chasséd past him towards the freshly kindled fire. 2003 New Statesman 14 Apr. The kindled fire of his own enthusiasm. 2. figurative. Aroused, inflamed, inspired; roused from passivity or inaction. ΚΠ a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 125v, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at cited word Kinlit with the zeill of God thai rais aganis thare wikkit king. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. i. 152 Wrath kindled gentleman be ruled by me. View more context for this quotation 1605 R. F. tr. F. Dedekind Schoole of Slovenrie ii. iii. 55 Their husbands will not like of this, but..thinke that all this duetie from some kindled love dooth rise. 1694 E. Settle Ambitious Slave i. i. 3 Rivall's a Title for Aspiring Gazers..; Where kindled Hope, and warm Ambition burn. 1717 W. Massey Musa Parænetica iv. 10 Jonah was with heavy Message sent Of kindled Wrath and Warnings to repent. 1772 W. Jones Poems 57 The magick water pierc'd his kindled brain. 1822 in P. J. Gates Poet. Wks. (1859) II. 69 Fit image of those subtile kindled souls, Who spurned at baseness, and arose from earth. 1898 Daily News 2 Apr. 5/5 The kindled sentiments of the Spaniards. 1919 Biblical World 53 546/1 No reader can leave..the seventeen-year-old girl..without a kindled heart and a deep desire to give her ‘more room’. 1957 Bks. Abroad 31 119/1 He spent long hours..meditating on the problems which some chance reading revealed to his kindled spirit. 2002 N. Tosches In Hand of Dante 96 You have spoken of your late-kindled love for Homer, a love which I share. 3. Lit up or illuminated as if with fire. Also figurative, chiefly with reference to a person's eyes. ΚΠ 1565 T. Norton & T. Sackville Gorboduc ii. i. sig. B.vii The fiery stedes did drawe the flame With wilder randon through the kindled skies. 1628 Z. Boyd Last Battell Soule v. 677 With kindled eyes, sparkling furie, and rage.., hee shall behold these deuils. 1762 S. Derrick Battle of Lora 7 In secret round they glanc'd their kindled Eyes, Their Indignation spoke in bursting Sighs. 1796 T. Townshend Poems 31 The purple might of kindled day..o'er the rosy-dancing tide Beams in warm lustre. 1844 J. Taylor Incidents Apostolic Age in Brit. xi. 182 The lone travellers often turned their faces to observe the kindled horizon. 1874 G. B. Johnson Poems & Sonnets 47 As at eve, the tops of olden Hills are hid by kindled clouds. 1917 F. Rumsey Mr. Cushing & Mlle. du Chastel xviii. 174 A dusk so full of light and with such a kindled sky that there was scarcely twilight. 1965 W. Weaver tr. C. E. Gadda Awful Mess on Via Merulana (2007) 245 From the kindled clouds of the evening. 2003 T. D. Hidier Born Confused xx. 232 The strip of glass was all kindled eyes set in burnished skin. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1440 |
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