单词 | maimed |
释义 | maimedadj.n. A. adj. a. Of a person, limb, etc.: mutilated, crippled, injured. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] maimed1340 remuled1481 mutilate1525 dismembered1552 trunked1552 martyred1567 bodiless1587 limbless1594 mutilated1598 memberless1611 maim1653 concised1660 dislimbed1662 truncated1731 obtruncate1805 lop-limbed1809 decurtate1859 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 135 (MED) He þet is ymaymed. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 311v In hem þat ben maymed þat haue þe senewes I-hurt of smellyng and smelleþ nouȝt þerfore. c1450 (?a1400) Wars Alexander (Ashm.) 4544 To so many mayned gods ȝour menbris ȝe dele. 1578 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1899) IV. 176 iiij. meymed men that cum fourth of Eyrland. 1591 E. Spenser Prosopopoia in Complaints 272 But my late maymed limbs lack wonted might To doo their kindly services. 1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 184 Hospitals for Maimed Soldiers. 1638 F. Junius Painting of Ancients 42 They stand and stare upon such maimed creatures as want either legges or armes. ?c1663 B. Whitelocke Diary (1990) 587 Order for reliefe of mayhemed soldiers, widdowes & orphans of soldiers. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 208 This maim'd Man. 1796 Grose's Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue (ed. 3) Rufflers,..notorious rogues pretending to be maimed soldiers or sailors. 1809 R. K. Porter Trav. Sketches xix. 208 Were such a concourse of carriages to assemble in our island,..fractured poles, broken sides, and maimed coachmen..would be the certain consequences. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 4 A maiméd giant in his agony. 1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl x With my maimed fingers, it would be impossible for me to type-write for three days at least. 1987 D. Morris Catlore (1989) (BNC) 43 A de-clawed cat is a maimed cat. b. In extended uses. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > [adjective] > harmed or affected detrimentally annoyedc1330 infectc1384 palledc1390 harmedc1440 hinderedc1440 weakened1548 maimed1570 interessed1598 crazy1601 impaired1611 wronged1632 appaired1637 deboist1641 sunken1642 vitiated1660 crippled1674 wounded1692 etiolated1847 injured1857 murdered1876 dicked-up1967 1570 H. Billingsley in tr. Euclid Elements Geom. vii. Introd. f. 183 Geometrie boroweth of it [sc. Arithmetic] principles,..and is as it were maymed without it. 1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet v. i. 214 Who is this they follow? And with such maimed rites? View more context for this quotation 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 308 In such a maimed and dislocated form. 1900 S. Phillips Paolo & Francesca i. 26 All these maiméd wants and thwarted thoughts. 1983 P. Dickinson Healer i. viii. 69 He..tied the maimed and distorted flower-head into a paper bag. 1991 M. Young Inside Job (BNC) 39 This maimed psyche..creates a specific concept of the self. B. n. With the: maimed people regarded as a class. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [noun] > person cripplec950 lameOE maimed1340 halterc1440 maima1500 maim?a1500 Vulcan1600 lamester1639 limpard1653 vulcanist1656 lameter1823 gammy1893 hoppy1904 crip1918 gimp1925 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 135 He is ase þe y-maymed ate porche of þe cherche þet ne heþ none ssame uor to sseawy alle his maimes to alle þon þet þer guoþ. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 141 Þo he hedde y-preched and y-ued þet uolk and þe zike and þe ymamed y-held. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 1098 For leuer here was þe pore to fede, Þe maymot, þe seke to wasshe & hele. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xv. f. xxij In so moche that the people wondred, to se..the maymed whole. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Macc. viii. 30 And made the maimed, orphanes, widowes, yea, & the aged also, equal in spoiles with themselues. View more context for this quotation 1675 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 10 304 He thought it best to Ingratiate with Ladies, to do many of the good offices of charity, to heal the sick, lame, maimed and wounded, [etc.]. 1764 S. Foote Mayor of Garret i. 3 Is it your worship's will that I lend a ministring hand to the maim'd? 1848 A. Jameson Sacred & Legendary Art II. 298 The sick and maimed who are healed by her intercession. 1990 P. Callow V. van Gogh (BNC) 125 He drew peasants..and labourers of all kinds..as well as the sick and the old, the maimed and the deformed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1340 |
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