living deadadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌlɪvɪŋ ˈdɛd/, U.S.

/ˌlɪvɪŋ ˈdɛd/

Forms: see living adj. and n.¹ and dead adj., n., and adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: living adj., dead adj.; living adj., dead n.

Etymology: < living adj. + dead adj., after living death n. at living adj. and n.¹ Compounds. As noun also partly (especially in sense B. 2) < living adj. + dead n. Compare undead adj. With use as noun compare earlier living corpse n. at living adj. and n.¹ Compounds.

A. adj.

Usually hyphenated. Both dead and alive; esp. alive, but experiencing no enjoyment of life; (in a religious or spiritual context) distanced from the true purpose of living.

ΚΠ

1612 H. Peacham Minerua Britanna i. 66 Thy Snuffe went out, and yet thou want'st no fire: Not that same which, thy fat Ambition fed, But that of Hell, that eates thee, liuing-dead.

a1628 F. Greville Cælica xcvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 243 A liuing-dead thing, till it be new borne, A Phenix-life.

1659 B. Parry Chymia Cœlestis 65 The world was already drown'd in sin, when the waters, to compleat it's excesse, came and carried away these living-dead men, and buried them in the same grave together.

1729 T. Consett tr. Gabriel, Bp. of Rezan Anniversary Serm. Death Peter the Great in tr. Present State Church of Russia II. 400 In a Word, all these living-dead Men are only walking Sepulchres who are estranged from God in their Souls.

1789 Oracle 17 July Some little sustenance is communicated by her children, of which she has five to lament their ‘living-dead mother.’

1808 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3270 Shakespere, Milton, Boyle, all the great living-dead men of our Isle.

1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xiii. 284 So deeply engaged had the living-dead man been, in thus communing with himself, that he had regarded neither the wind nor the way.

1917 R. Graves Fairies & Fusiliers 28 You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 168 I know the unliving factory-hand, living-dead millions Is unliving me, living-dead me, I, with them, am living dead.

2010 L. Buzbee Haunting of Charles Dickens 254 She remembered the living-dead children in the workhouse.

B. n.

1. With plural agreement (usually with the). Living-dead people considered as a class; esp. the class of people who lead a miserable or empty existence.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > manner of life > specific > one who

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1696 in J. Dennis Lett. Several Occasions sig. i4^v A days we converse with the living dead; that is, with those who being dead yet speak.

1776 Morning Chron. & London Advertiser 27 May At whose door is the cause of this horrid assemblage of living dead to be laid?

1820 W. Scott Monastery III. vii. 191 The Living Dead, whose sober brow Oft shrouds such thoughts as thou hast now Whose hearts within are seldom cured Of passions by their vows abjured.

1860 Michigan Jrnl. Educ. 7 243 The dead thus called on ‘to bury their dead’ are not the actually dead but the living dead.

1958 Listener 14 Aug. 225/2 What they thought of ‘squares’, and the living dead in general.

2004 D. D. Moore GI Jews vii. 234 Their revulsion at the camps collided with their recognition that these living dead were Jews like themselves.

a. A supernatural creature (such as a zombie or vampire) viewed as a reanimated corpse or undead being. Somewhat rare.In later use typically with reference to a zombie: see note at sense B. 2b.

ΚΠ

1888 A. D. Crake Stories from Old Eng. Hist. 139 Yon vulture..As the vampire draweth near her, Seeketh on a crag a refuge Till the living dead hath vanished.

1985 Literary Rev. Fall 49 Last words spoken from the grave like a promise or warning, spoken to her! as if she were one of them—a living dead, a zombie!

2015 O. Hakola Rhetoric of Mod. Death in Amer. Living Dead Films ii. 27 It is not merely the technical death that makes a person a living dead.

b. With plural agreement (usually with the). Supernatural creatures (such as zombies or vampires) viewed as reanimated corpses or undead beings.In later use typically with reference to zombies (see zombie n. 2b), following the popularity of the 1968 U.S. film Night of the Living Dead and subsequent films in the series.

ΚΠ

1889 Current Lit. Sept. 243/2 The coffins were opened... Loathsome beyond thought, ghoul-like beyond nightmare dream, they were the living dead.

1943 Washington Post 16 May vi. 1/7 ‘I Walked With a Zombie’, the eerie film drama of the living dead.

1968 V. Canby in N.Y. Times 5 Dec. 59/2 ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a grainy little movie acted by what appear to be nonprofessional actors, who are besieged in a farm house by some other nonprofessional actors who stagger around, stiff-legged, pretending to be flesh-eating ghouls.

1986 D. Koontz Strangers ii. iv. 319 He had no expression whatsoever, and soulless eyes that reminded Dom of horror movies about the living dead.

2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 May (Culture section) 12 In this cheap and cheerfully violent zombie movie from Australia, the coming of the living dead coincides with a mysterious fuel shortage.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	living dead
释义	living deadadj.n. Brit. /ˌlɪvɪŋ ˈdɛd/, U.S. /ˌlɪvɪŋ ˈdɛd/ Forms: see living adj. and n.¹ and dead adj., n., and adv. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: living adj., dead adj.; living adj., dead n. Etymology: < living adj. + dead adj., after living death n. at living adj. and n.¹ Compounds. As noun also partly (especially in sense B. 2) < living adj. + dead n. Compare undead adj. With use as noun compare earlier living corpse n. at living adj. and n.¹ Compounds. A. adj. Usually hyphenated. Both dead and alive; esp. alive, but experiencing no enjoyment of life; (in a religious or spiritual context) distanced from the true purpose of living. ΚΠ 1612 H. Peacham Minerua Britanna i. 66 Thy Snuffe went out, and yet thou want'st no fire: Not that same which, thy fat Ambition fed, But that of Hell, that eates thee, liuing-dead. a1628 F. Greville Cælica xcvi, in Certaine Wks. (1633) 243 A liuing-dead thing, till it be new borne, A Phenix-life. 1659 B. Parry Chymia Cœlestis 65 The world was already drown'd in sin, when the waters, to compleat it's excesse, came and carried away these living-dead men, and buried them in the same grave together. 1729 T. Consett tr. Gabriel, Bp. of Rezan Anniversary Serm. Death Peter the Great in tr. Present State Church of Russia II. 400 In a Word, all these living-dead Men are only walking Sepulchres who are estranged from God in their Souls. 1789 Oracle 17 July Some little sustenance is communicated by her children, of which she has five to lament their ‘living-dead mother.’ 1808 S. T. Coleridge Notebks. (1973) III. 3270 Shakespere, Milton, Boyle, all the great living-dead men of our Isle. 1865 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend I. ii. xiii. 284 So deeply engaged had the living-dead man been, in thus communing with himself, that he had regarded neither the wind nor the way. 1917 R. Graves Fairies & Fusiliers 28 You'll find me buried, living-dead In these verses that you've read. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 168 I know the unliving factory-hand, living-dead millions Is unliving me, living-dead me, I, with them, am living dead. 2010 L. Buzbee Haunting of Charles Dickens 254 She remembered the living-dead children in the workhouse. B. n. 1. With plural agreement (usually with the). Living-dead people considered as a class; esp. the class of people who lead a miserable or empty existence. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > manner of life > specific > one who liverc1405 living corpse1659 living dead1696 lifer1939 1696 in J. Dennis Lett. Several Occasions sig. i4^v A days we converse with the living dead; that is, with those who being dead yet speak. 1776 Morning Chron. & London Advertiser 27 May At whose door is the cause of this horrid assemblage of living dead to be laid? 1820 W. Scott Monastery III. vii. 191 The Living Dead, whose sober brow Oft shrouds such thoughts as thou hast now Whose hearts within are seldom cured Of passions by their vows abjured. 1860 Michigan Jrnl. Educ. 7 243 The dead thus called on ‘to bury their dead’ are not the actually dead but the living dead. 1958 Listener 14 Aug. 225/2 What they thought of ‘squares’, and the living dead in general. 2004 D. D. Moore GI Jews vii. 234 Their revulsion at the camps collided with their recognition that these living dead were Jews like themselves. 2. a. A supernatural creature (such as a zombie or vampire) viewed as a reanimated corpse or undead being. Somewhat rare.In later use typically with reference to a zombie: see note at sense B. 2b. ΚΠ 1888 A. D. Crake Stories from Old Eng. Hist. 139 Yon vulture..As the vampire draweth near her, Seeketh on a crag a refuge Till the living dead hath vanished. 1985 Literary Rev. Fall 49 Last words spoken from the grave like a promise or warning, spoken to her! as if she were one of them—a living dead, a zombie! 2015 O. Hakola Rhetoric of Mod. Death in Amer. Living Dead Films ii. 27 It is not merely the technical death that makes a person a living dead. b. With plural agreement (usually with the). Supernatural creatures (such as zombies or vampires) viewed as reanimated corpses or undead beings.In later use typically with reference to zombies (see zombie n. 2b), following the popularity of the 1968 U.S. film Night of the Living Dead and subsequent films in the series. ΚΠ 1889 Current Lit. Sept. 243/2 The coffins were opened... Loathsome beyond thought, ghoul-like beyond nightmare dream, they were the living dead. 1943 Washington Post 16 May vi. 1/7 ‘I Walked With a Zombie’, the eerie film drama of the living dead. 1968 V. Canby in N.Y. Times 5 Dec. 59/2 ‘Night of the Living Dead’ is a grainy little movie acted by what appear to be nonprofessional actors, who are besieged in a farm house by some other nonprofessional actors who stagger around, stiff-legged, pretending to be flesh-eating ghouls. 1986 D. Koontz Strangers ii. iv. 319 He had no expression whatsoever, and soulless eyes that reminded Dom of horror movies about the living dead. 2015 Sunday Times (Nexis) 10 May (Culture section) 12 In this cheap and cheerfully violent zombie movie from Australia, the coming of the living dead coincides with a mysterious fuel shortage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1612
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