单词 | loved |
释义 | lovedadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. That is the object of love or affection; beloved. In attributive use now chiefly poetic except with prefixed adverb as dearly loved, much-loved, etc.; see also well-loved adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [adjective] lief and deara900 dearOE sweetOE lovedOE dearlyOE liefOE dearworth?c1225 chere1297 lovered1340 beloveda1375 dearworthyc1374 chary?a1400 sugaredc1475 tender1485 chereful1486 affectionatea1513 dilect1521 chare1583 ingling1595 darling1596 affected1600 in the love of1631 jewel-darling1643 adorable1653 fonded1684 endeared1841 dotey1852 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) iv. 207 Se ælmihtiga hælend ne forlet to gymeleaste his gelufedan apostol. OE West Saxon Gospels: Mark (Corpus Cambr.) i. 11 Þa wæs stefn of heofenum geworden: þu eart min gelufoda sunu [c1200 Hatton min gelufede sune] on þe ic gelicode. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Royal) 2 Pet. i. 17 This is my loued sone, in whom I haue plesid to me. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10416 (MED) Þis leuedi was o mikel prise, Loued and lered. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ix. l. 21 O lowit leid, with worschip, wys and wicht. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. xii. 46 Thy wepyng..Quhilk thou makis for thi luffyt Crevsay. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene iii. ii. sig. Dd5 To compas thy desire, and find that loued knight. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vi. 116 In loued lakes they striue. 1680 E. Settle Female Prelate i. i. 3 Still, my loved Lord, you make..poor Angeline uneasie. 1706 N. Rowe Ulysses v. i. 60 I'll fly, as I have sworn For thy lov'd sake, far from the Sight of Man. c1751 T. Gray Elegy in Poems (1966) 41 Thy once-loved haunt, this long-deserted shade. 1808 W. Scott Marmion iv. xi. 197 Thy turrets rude, and tottered Keep, Have been the minstrel's loved resort. 1866 M. Arnold Thyrsis xii, in Macmillan's Mag. Apr. 451 Many a dingle on the loved hill-side. 1890 E. Favenc in C. Taylor Tales Austral Tropics (1997) 13 I lay there watching the dearly-loved Austral constellations in simple, peaceful ecstasy. 1911 ‘M. Field’ Trag. Pardon v. vi. 114 The passing-over Of a loved hand even as one falls asleep! 1933 Times 8 Sept. 14/2 It is enough to record the qualities which made him to many the best-loved and best trusted statesman of his day. 1963 I. Layton Tall Man executes Jig in Balls for One-armed Juggler 112 He..felt..as a man who has held A loved and lovely woman in his arms. 1998 M. Gluck Superplonk 1999 52 Like a comfortable, much-loved old leather sofa, it simply and warmly enfolds you. b. loved one n. (a) A person who is beloved; (in plural) a person's close family or friends; (b) spec. a close relation or friend who has died (frequently in allusion to Evelyn Waugh's use of the phrase; see quot. 1948). ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > relations or kindred > [noun] kinc825 sibOE kindredOE sibness?a1300 kindc1325 affinity1357 cousinagea1382 cognationc1384 kinhoodc1440 kinsfolkc1450 evenkina1500 relation1502 kindsfolk1555 folks1715 cousinhood1748 loved onea1756 parentage1768 concerns1818 belonging1842 cousinry1844 cousinship1865 kinspeople1866 kinfolk1873 the mind > emotion > love > a lover > [noun] > one who is loved or a sweetheart copenerc897 lovec1225 lemanc1275 sweetinga1300 druery13.. doceamurc1320 paramoura1375 honeybirdc1390 honey-sweetc1440 dowsec1450 heart-rootc1460 prim1509 joa1529 sweetheart1576 love-mate1582 belamour1590 copemate1593 frister1639 sprunny1739 Liebling1868 Liebchen1876 angel pie1878 loved one1879 cariad1899 square piece1925 sheikha1926 sweetie-pie1928 oppo1932 poopsie1937 mi'jita1970 squeeze1980 boo1988 bae2006 the world > life > death > dead person or the dead > [noun] > dead friend or relation loved one1926 a1756 W. Collins Song in S. Johnson Wks. Eng. Poets (1790) XXXIX. 66 Within his grave she dropp'd in grief, And o'er her lov'd-one died. 1814 Ld. Byron Corsair iii. vi. 73 Thy loved one from thee riven. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ Let. 20 Feb. (1956) VII. 104 I want, if I can, to write a ‘characteristik’ of my loved one—no memoir, but a brief sketch. 1926 A. Huxley Jesting Pilate iv. 272 Lay the Loved Ones to rest in—Graveyard, the Cemetery Unusual. 1938 D. Castle Do your Own Time iii. 35 I sat idly drawing designs on my writing-paper while nineteen heartsick men began writing to their loved ones. 1948 E. Waugh Loved One 32 I saw the Happy Resting Place of Countless Loved Ones. And I saw the Waiting Ones who still stood at the brink of that narrow stream that now separated them from those who had gone before. 1968 Guardian 17 Aug. 8/1 Montpellier has just acquired..Europe's first funeral parlour on the American model..the Loved Ones make their final appearances in rooms done up in sky blue, water green, pink, or beige. 1971 Progress (Cape Town) May 8/3 In many cases these people would have to travel more than two or three hundred miles to be with their loved ones. 1999 Wired Jan. 144/1 I'm not afraid of being killed, nor of any of the projected African perils that have my loved ones so spooked. 2. Scottish. In royal and feudal documents: prefixed to designations and personal names as a form of address. Frequently with plural ending. Now historical.Equivalent to the formula ‘trusty and well-beloved’ in English charters. ΚΠ 1388 in W. Fraser Douglas Bk. (1885) III. 32 Til wr lufd cosyn Dame Margaret Stewart. 1460 Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 135 Our lwfyt burges Ihon Smayll. 1461 Charters etc. Peebles (1872) 140 Our luffit burges and nychtbur Andro Mylner. 1545 in J. Stuart Extracts Council Reg. Aberdeen (1844) I. 217 To our louittis cousingis, bailzeis, counsale, and communitie of Abirdene. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus i. f. 15v To our louit condigne Maistres..Dewlie greting. 1637 Bk. Common Prayer Church of Scotl. Proclam. Charles..to our Lovits Messengers. 1679 King Charles II Proclam. in G. Hickes Spirit of Popery (1680) 64 Charles, by the Grace of God King of Great Britain, France and Ireland, Defender of the Faith; To Our Lovits Heraulds, Macers, Pursevants, or Messengers at Arms. 1707 Acts Parl. Scotl. XI. App. 121 It is showen to us by our Lovit John Davie. 1715 Proclam. George I 6 Sept. (single sheet) To our Lovits Macers, Messengers at Arms, [etc.]. 1868 Act 31 & 32 Victoria c. 101 Sched. (QQ), [‘Form to be used under this Act’.] It is humbly shown to us by our lovite A.B., complaner, against C.D. [etc.]. 1937 Green’s Encycl. Legal Styles V. 330 Whereas it is humbly shewn to us by our lovite A.B. complainer. 1999 Archit. Hist. 42 145 The degree of affection—beyond the customary ‘lovit familiar’ or ‘familiar servant’—was given the strongest possible emphasis by the king in 1531. B. n. A beloved person; (also) beloved people as a class. Usually with the or possessive.For plural use in quots. 1740, 1792, 1841 cf. sense A. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > love > loved one > [noun] darlingc888 the apple of a person's eyeeOE lief971 light of one's eye(s)OE lovedOE my lifelOE lovec1225 druta1240 chere1297 sweetc1330 popelotc1390 likinga1393 oninga1400 onlepya1400 belovedc1430 well-beloved1447 heart-rootc1460 deara1500 delicate1531 belove1534 leefkyn1540 one and only1551 fondling1580 dearing1601 precious1602 loveling1606 dotey1663 lovee1753 passion1783 mavourneen1800 dote1809 treasure1844 seraph1853 sloe1884 darlint1888 asthore1894 darl1930 OE Lambeth Psalter: Canticles vi. 244 Incrassatus est dilectus et recalcitrauit : gefættod is se gelufoda & he ongean spearn. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 87 Þer spekys þe lufyd to þe hart of þe lufar. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene iv. v. sig. E5v Britomart..Vpon her first aduenture forth did ride, To seeke her lou'd. 1632 H. Reynolds Mythomystes 101 It is I That both the loued am, and louer too. 1665 G. Havers & J. Davies tr. Another Coll. Philos. Conf. French Virtuosi cxlviii. 190 The Lover is less perfect then the Loved, into which he is transform'd. 1740 Ars Notariatus ii. 196 To F, &c. our Lovits, or any one of you, conjunctly and severally. 1792 W. Ross Lect. Pract. Law Scotl. I. 284 The King of England says to our beloved, or well beloved. The King of France, à nos amés, or à nos bien amés. And the King of Scotland, to our lovites. 1796 I. Kelly Ruins Avondale Priory II. 91 The loved, the lover of St. Clair. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus ii. v. 50/1 By what Pre-established Harmony of occurrences did the Lover and the Loved meet one another in so wide a world? 1841 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. at Luve Victoria, etc.,—Our Lovites, Thomas Blaikie, plumber in Aberdeen, present Provost of the Royal Burgh of Aberdeen; Patrick Simpson, manufacturer in Aberdeen, Leslie Clark, merchant there. 1898 G. Meredith Odes French Hist. 51 This loved and scourged of angels. 1913 R. Brooke in Poetry & Drama Dec. 404 Who decries the loved, decries the lover. 1945 C. Butler Cut is Branch 50 The loved and lonely, the crafty, the open-handed, The common, the rare, mass in a terrible throng. 1964 A. Baraka Dead Lecturer 69 The killed is the killer, the loved the lover. 2006 Scotl. on Sunday (Nexis) 16 July 18 The process of loving somebody creates something that is separate from either person, the lover or the loved. Compounds With adverbs. loved-up adj. slang (chiefly British). (a) under the influence of the drug Ecstasy; experiencing a feeling of euphoria, heightened affection, or sensuality induced by Ecstasy; (also) relating to or producing such an experience; (b) in love, amorous (esp. intensely so, as if under the influence of the drug Ecstasy).Quot. 1963, although a figurative use of to love up (see love v.1 1g), shows an early association of the effects of mind-altering drugs with those of love. ΚΠ 1963 F. Seidel Final Solutions 4 Doped up and heartless, loved up by heroin, running out of veins.] 1991 Face Dec. 75/1 So all the lads became loved-up? No, this wasn't a cure for violence. 1995 Unique June 81/1 It's not every day that you meet two such loved-up people and you could be missing out on a lot of fun. 1998 S. Reynolds Energy Flash ii. 46 Back in 1988..the heartless hoolie turned loved-up nutter was proof that Ecstasy really was a wonder drug, the agent of a spiritual and social revolution. 2002 B Jan. 86/3 As for the rest of the gang I probably see more of them than Tom does because he's so loved-up with Fay! This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.OE |
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