单词 | manacle |
释义 | manaclen. 1. Usually in plural. a. A fetter for the hand; (more generally) a shackle. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) > for the hands or arms copsa700 manaclec1350 handlock1532 hand-bolt1563 handcuff1649 cuff1663 Darbies1673 glim-fenders1699 government securities1707 pinion1736 ruffles1776 bracelet1817 nippers1821 handicuff1825 shangy1839 snitchers1864 come-along1874 shackle-irons1876 mitten1880 wristlet1881 snaps1891 snips1891 stringers1893 twister1910 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [noun] > bond(s) or fetter(s) or shackle(s) bendc890 shacklea1000 bandc1175 bonda1325 aneus1360 warlockc1400 leashc1430 link?a1500 shackle1540 cramp-ring1567 locketa1643 restraint1650 pinion1733 manacle1838 span1856 c1350 Psalter (BL Add. 17376) in K. D. Bülbring Earliest Compl. Eng. Prose Psalter (1891) cxlix. 8 (MED) To bynde her kynges in feteris and her nobles in manicles [L. manicis] of iren. c1390 Pistel of Swete Susan (Vernon) 176 (MED) Þei dede hire in a dungon..Marred in manicles. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 325 Manycle, Manica, cathena. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxlix. 8 For to bynde..the noblis of thaim in manykils of yryn. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1957) ii. iii. 147 And, first of all, the mannakillis and hard bandis Chargit he lows of this ilk mannis handis. 1590 E. Webbe Rare & Wonderfull Things (new ed.) sig. Bv Our handes fastned with a paire of Mannacles. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) i. x. 56 Wee'le put you (Like one that meanes his proper harme) in Manacles, Then reason safely with you. View more context for this quotation 1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 1309 His manacles remark him, there he sits. View more context for this quotation 1734 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. I. 184 Twenty thousand pair of manacles were found. 1798 S. T. Coleridge France in Fears & Solitude 17 Slaves..burst their manacles, and wear the name Of freedom graven on a heavier chain! 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. xi. 405 Their limbs loaded with heavy manacles. 1897 A. Balfour By Stroke of Sword xii. 43/2 The men..fastened my wrists together with manacles. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xv. [Circe] 492 He lies in the lowest dungeon With manacles and chains around his limbs. 1994 L. A. Graf Firestorm xv. 171 His hands clenched within the manacles behind his back. b. figurative. A bond, a restraint. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action > that which fetterOE shackle?c1225 cagec1300 chainc1374 to cut a large thong of another man's leatherc1380 corda1382 gablea1555 obligation1582 manacle1587 hamper1613 tethera1628 girdlea1630 confiner1654 trammela1657 cramp1719 swathe1864 tie1868 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvii. 310 That [sc. the body] which was given it [sc. the soul] for an instrument, is become Manicles and Stocks. a1616 W. Shakespeare Cymbeline (1623) i. i. 123 For my sake weare this [bracelet], It is a Manacle of Loue. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) ii. iv. 93 The Manacles Of the all-building-Law. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 27 No Poet durst have fetcht his Fancy so farr, as to call Prayer the Manicles of the Almighty, had not God himselfe..confessed it. 1677 tr. A.-N. Amelot de La Houssaie Hist. Govt. Venice 3 They continued to elect a Prince, but with such manacles and restrictions, that they left him scarce any thing but the Title. 1794 W. Blake London in Songs of Experience in Compl. Poetry & Prose (1982) 27 In every ban, The mind-forg'd manacles I hear. 1804 T. Jefferson Let. 28 June in Writings (1984) 1147 To open the doors of truth, and to fortify the habit of testing everything by reason, are the most effectual manacles we can rivet on the hands of our successors. 1852 M. Arnold Empedocles on Etna, & Other Poems 226 I [sc. Nature] knew not yet the gauge of Time, Nor wore the manacles of Space. 1963 M. L. King Strength to Love xii. 95 Under Communism, the individual soul is shackled by the chains of conformity; his spirit is bound by the manacles of party allegiance. 1992 Earth Matters Summer 1/1 These are the macroeconomic manacles which force them to ‘cash crop’ their natural resources. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping or management of horses > horse-gear > [noun] > hobble or fetter fetterlockc1440 shackle1529 trammelc1550 manacle1553 rapshin1677 fetlock1695 French lock1704 heel rope1854 1553 J. Withals Shorte Dict. f. 40/1 The manakle for a horse nose, postomis. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 304 Bind with a manicle his [sc. the horse's] fore-legge to the hinder leg on the contrary side. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 321 There is a kind of Manicle for the pasternes of Horsses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). manaclev. 1. a. transitive. To fetter or confine (the hands); to fetter (a person) with handcuffs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] > by the hands or arms manaclea1350 pinion1556 handfast1587 handlock1587 pinno1596 immanacle1637 handcuff1649 cuff1693 hand-bolt1702 a1350 ( in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 18 (MED) Boþe wiþ yrn ant wiþ stel mankled were ys honde. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 178 (MED) Sche wyl boþe smytyn & bityn, & þerfor is sche manykyld on hir wristys. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 227 To Manacle, manicare. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 594/39 Maniculo, to manycle. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 632/2 I manakyll a suspecte person to make hym to confesse thynges... And he will nat confesse it manakyll hym, for undouted he is gylty. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2287/1 He was..so manacled that ye bloud spurt out of his fingers endes. 1622 J. Taylor Arrant Thiefe in Wks. (1630) ii. 124/2 Thieues are manacled when they are found. 1630 J. Wadsworth Eng. Spanish Pilgrime (new ed.) 41 Their masters manicling their hands before for feare they should make an insurrection. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 426 Spirits..Not ti'd or manacl'd with joynt or limb. View more context for this quotation 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Iliad in Iliad & Odyssey I. xxi. 38 Manacling their hands Behind them fast with their own tunic-strings. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. I. 78 Porteous..ordered him to be manacled. 1878 in G. P. Lathrop Masque of Poets 27 Roman hands Can never manacle alive The daughter of the Ptolomies. 1955 Times 25 Aug. 7/3 It was alleged that at various times during that day they beat Kamau..and also assaulted him by putting his hands between his legs and manacling his wrists at the back of his head. 1992 C. McCarthy All Pretty Horses (1993) iii. 154 The prisoners sat in the sand..with their hands still manacled before them. b. transitive. More generally: to fetter (legs, etc.); to fasten, secure. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > bind, fetter, or shackle [verb (transitive)] bind971 to bind hand and footOE i-bindec1000 umgivea1300 warrok1362 hampera1375 bolt1377 shacklec1440 astrainc1475 estrain1483 to put in irons1533 to tie up1570 manacle1582 beshackle1599 to tie (also lay) neck and heels1618 fillet1633 kilta1689 to tie down1699 oblige1718 hog-tie1886 zip-tie1985 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 9 Thee gates of warfare wyl then bee mannacled hardly With steele bunch chayne knob. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 (1623) v. i. 147 Wee'l bate thy Bears to death, And manacle the Berard in their Chaines. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 464 Ile manacle thy necke and feete together. View more context for this quotation 1898 Argosy May 246 Then they manacled my legs. 1986 J. Gloag Only Yesterday (1988) 8 The house was locked and double locked and manacled with chains. 1991 M. Duffy Illuminations (1992) 13 The book falls open at a grey photograph of the cathedral's chained library, heavy books manacled to upright lecterns. 2. transitive. figurative. To constrain as with shackles; to limit, inhibit.Very common in the 17th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)] bindc1200 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 corset1935 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action bind971 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 to box up1659 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 hog-tie1924 corset1935 1577 tr. ‘F. de L'Isle’ Legendarie Pref. sig. A ivv I..being surprised, and as it were manicled with an ineuitable let. 1610 J. Donne Pseudo-martyr xi. 322 It seemes that the Pope when hee would restraine the subiects of Princes, and..fetter and manacle them in perplexities..is content to send his Breues. 1625 N. Carpenter Geogr. Delineated ii. vii. 106 What should hinder the Red Sea to ouer-flow all Ægypt..vnlesse it were manicled with the Creators power? 1649 R. Lovelace Lucasta: Epodes, Odes, Sonnets, Songs 45 Griefe too can manckell the minde. 1660 J. Milton Readie Way Free Commonw. (ed. 2) 65 A number of new injunctions to manacle the native liberty of mankinde. 1721 A. Ramsay Scribblers Lash'd 88 An ancle Or foot is seen, might monarchs mancle. a1790 B. Franklin Autobiogr. (1981) iii. 1457 The Proprietaries obstinately persisted in manacling their Deputies with Instructions inconsistent not only with the Privileges of the People, [etc.]. 1859 J. Bright Speeches 40 Men who seem to be manacled to the triumph of 1832. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling iii. i How often have I crushed their [sc. reeds'] cracking stems, Sered by the wind and manacled in ice. 1971 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 24 Nov. 2/1 The thimble-brains who perpetrate the law-breaking know the police are so manacled. 1993 I. Watson Inquisitor (BNC) 149 It must needs manacle the minds of men. Derivatives ˈmanacled adj. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > binding or fettering > [adjective] > bound, fettered, or shackled > by the hands or arms handfastc1410 pinioned1567 manacled1586 handboundc1604 handcuffed1742 the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [adjective] > restricted in free action coarctc1420 shackledc1440 coarcteda1500 haltered?1510 catesnd1566 straited1581 immurate1593 chained1613 hampered1633 muzzled1647 throttled1677 tethereda1680 fetlocked1725 strangled1813 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 iron-bound1850 cabined1853 manacled1861 vaulted1863 tied1876 strait-jacketed1894 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [adjective] > restricted or limited > in free action coarctc1420 shackledc1440 coarcteda1500 haltered?1510 catesnd1566 straited1581 chained1613 hampered1633 muzzled1647 tethereda1680 fetlocked1725 strangled1813 trammelled1813 spancelled1835 iron-bound1850 cabined1853 manacled1861 vaulted1863 tied1876 strait-jacketed1894 1586 A. Day Eng. Secretorie i. sig. K4v His manacled and benummed olde ioyntes. 1861 Sat. Rev. 23 Nov. 523 A packed Assembly, reported by a manacled press. 1990 D. Walcott Omeros ii. 15 Its nostrils might flare at the stench from manacled ankles, the coffled feet scraping like leaves. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > [noun] locking1503 coarctinga1513 constraint1590 stint1593 coarctation1605 manacling1649 strait-waistcoating1859 hemming-in1905 strait-jacketing1950 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > [noun] > of free action coarctinga1513 constraint1590 stint1593 coarctation1605 manacling1649 strait-waistcoating1859 hemming-in1905 strait-jacketing1950 1649 H. Hammond Vindic. Addresse 31 The infinite goodnesse of God..is a manicling, or restraining his Omnipotence. 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