单词 | mannered |
释义 | manneredadj. I. Characterized by manners or mannerism. 1. Having manners, habits, or behaviour of a specified kind.For uses with a prefixed adjective or adverb forming established compounds, as well-, ill-mannered, etc., see under the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > [adjective] > behaved or conducted in a specific manner thewedc1200 i-lateta1225 ytheweda1400 demeaned14.. manneredc1400 tachedc1400 behavioured1589 behaved1604 conversationeda1625 carriaged1633 conducted1856 c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. ii. 23 And Mede is manered after hym riȝte as kynde axeth. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) xx. 448 He is not manered like a gentyll man. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 110 (MED) Folwe oft-sithes þe conseill of þe most best manered men of þi court. 1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) xv. f. 187v Thou could not stawnche The hunger of thy greedye gut and euill mannerd pawnche. 1603 G. Owen Descr. Penbrokshire (1891) v. 41 I finde..Pembrokshere to be worst manred and hardest to find personable. 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xiii. 17 Beseeching you to giue her Princely training, that she may be manere'd as she is borne. View more context for this quotation 1673 W. Temple Observ. United Provinces iv. 137 A people differently bred and manner'd from the Traders. 1798 H. Brand Adelinda ii. viii, in Plays & Poems 298 I might have spared har the trouble of coming, for a dancing bear from our fair, might have sat for yar likeness, yow are so bad mannered. 1815 C. Lamb Let. 16 Apr. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 140 From thence I turned to V[incent] Bourne—what a sweet unpretending pretty-mannered matter-ful creature. 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. III. 103 The Americans are better mannered than others, in as far as they reverence intellect more than wealth and fashion. 1854 J. R. Lowell Jrnl. Italy in Wks. (1890) I. 175 We graver-tempered and -mannered Septentrions. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie III. ix. 145 He was well-dressed, and mannered like a gentleman. 1880 B. Disraeli Endymion III. iii. 25 The most sweetly mannered gentleman alive. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 772/2 I had trained it into being a perfectly mannered house pet. 1952 Times-Picayune (New Orleans) 6 May 1/6 A mild-mannered bank vice-president..was accused..of embezzling about $400,000 to plunge on the stock market. 1983 ‘J. le Carré’ Little Drummer Girl i. 16 Against his wishes, they saddled him at the last minute with a slow-mannered Silesian policeman from Hamburg. 2. Having good manners; well-behaved, polite; refined, gracious, sophisticated. Now chiefly regional.In quot. 1575 in extended use, of a dwelling: elegant. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > [adjective] > well-mannered well-theweda1200 theweda1400 mannerablea1475 mannered1483 well-mannereda1513 mannerlya1529 well-fashioned1540 unrude1648 good-mannered1715 mannersome1876 couth1896 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 150 b/1 Lerne of marye to be manerd and fere ful to all men. a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 240 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 102 Mansweit but malice manerit & meike. 1568 T. Howell Newe Sonets (1879) 157 Who are more feate or trim traind vp, then manerd seruents are? 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus ii. f. 19v Thair manerit Mans sa perfyit and preclair, Enuirond all about with hailsum air. 1829 H. F. Lyte Tales in Verse (ed. 2) 93 His wife, good Mrs. Field, Heaven bless her face! Was one might well adorn a higher place; Accomplished, mannered, lady-like and fair. 1867 E. Lazarus Poems & Transl. 159 Lissome and lithe was she, with slender form, Girlishly delicate, exquisitely fair, Mannered with perfect and unconscious grace. 1920 E. A. Robinson Lancelot i. 13 A still fear that would not be veiled wholly With any mask of mannered nonchalance. 1976 Drum (Johannesburg) June (E. Afr. ed.) 21/3 My parents want me to look for a beautiful and mannered lady to marry. 1992 C. Sargent Castle Drachenfels (BNC) To each soul, be they merchant or prospector, mannered gentlewoman or rough-handed son of toil, Drachenfels told a story which appealed to their own greatest vanity or desire. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > [adjective] > exhibiting manners mannered1755 1755 J. Grainger Solitude in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems 241 Then know thyself, the human mind survey... Hence Inspiration plans his manner'd lays. 1789 T. Twining tr. Aristotle Treat. Poetry 400 The moral, or rather mannered [Gk. ἠθική] Tragedy (for we seem to want a word here). 4. Of art, architecture, etc.: characterized by or given to mannerism; artificial, affected, or over-elaborate in style. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > qualities of works generally wateryc1230 polite?a1500 meagre1539 over-laboured1579 bald1589 spiritless1592 light1597 meretricious1633 standing1661 effectual1662 airy1664 severe1665 correct1676 enervatea1704 free1728 classic1743 academic1752 academical1752 chaste1753 nerveless1763 epic1769 crude1786 effective1790 creative1791 soulless1794 mannered1796 manneristical1830 manneristic1837 subjective1840 inartisticala1849 abstract1857 inartistic1859 literary1900 period1905 atmospheric1908 dateless1908 atmosphered1920 non-naturalistic1925 self-indulgent1926 free-styled1933 soft-centred1935 freestyle1938 pseudish1938 decadent1942 post-human1944 kitschy1946 faux-naïf1958 spare1965 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > inelegance > [adjective] > affected affected1578 affecting1597 coxcombical1723 mannered1796 manneristical1830 manneristic1837 1796 J. Farington Diary 2 Apr. (1978) II. 518 The drawings of Turner are very ingenious, but it is a manner'd harmony which He obtains. 1801 H. Fuseli Lect. Painting I. ii. 74 The mannered and feeble etchings of Theodore van Tulden. 1861 G. W. Thornbury Life J. M. W. Turner I. 157 The colour has a slightly greenish-blue tinge, which is mannered, but not unpleasing. 1884 H. R. Haweis My Mus. Life II. 633 That Spohr was too doctrinaire and mannered,..most musicians will allow. 1896 J. W. Mackail Lat. Lit. (ed. 2) 101 That passages in it [sc. Virgil's Aeneid] here and there are mannered, and even flat, is true. 1934 Daily Tel. 18 Feb. 19/1 Her air of impudence is so engaging, her movements are mannered, and yet easy, her speech rhythmic and Celtically lilted. 1964 I. Murdoch Italian Girl (1967) i. 19 I looked at..the mannered engravings which had once seemed the equal of Bewick. 1987 Trad. Interior Decoration Summer 35/1 Of all our native architectural styles, the Jacobean is perhaps the most mannered. 5. Moderate, within bounds. Cf. manner n. 15. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] methelyeOE i-meteOE methefulOE attempre1297 measurablec1330 temprea1340 temperatec1380 temperantc1384 attemperatec1386 attemperelc1386 chastea1400 mannered1435 measureda1450 moderatea1450 well-measuredc1450 attempered1474 modest1548 sober1552 measurely1570 temperable1619 contemperate1647 submissive1753 managed1770 self-contained1838 inexplosive1867 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 94 (MED) Lufe..of kynsmen, if it be vn-manerd, fleschly affeccione it is cald..And if it be manerd [L. moderatus], kyndely it is calde. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.c1400 |
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