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单词 manacle
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manaclen.

Brit. /ˈmanəkl/, U.S. /ˈmænəkəl/
Forms: Middle English manakelle, Middle English manakyll, Middle English manycle, Middle English manykil, Middle English manykle, Middle English–1600s manicle, Middle English– manacle, 1500s manakle, 1500s manikel, 1500s mannicle, 1600s manackle, 1600s mancle, 1600s manickle, 1600s mannacle, 1600s manucle; also Scottish pre-1700 manackle, pre-1700 manicle, pre-1700 mannakill, pre-1700 mannykill, pre-1700 menniekill.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French manicle, manique.
Etymology: < Anglo-Norman manicle, manichle plough-handle, gauntlet, (in plural) manacles, Old French, Middle French, French manicle (c1165 in sense ‘armlet, gauntlet’; c1350 in plural in sense ‘handcuffs’; also French manique (1680)) < classical Latin manicula plough-handle (in Plautus with meaning ‘little hand’ or perhaps ‘manacle’; in post-classical Latin in sense ‘manacle’, from 1287 in British sources, but certainly earlier, since it is borrowed as Old Saxon menichilo ) < manus hand (see manus n.1) + -cula -cule suffix; compare -cle suffix. Compare manacle v.The usual word for ‘manacle’ and ‘gauntlet’ in classical Latin and early post-classical Latin is manica (see manica n.). Cognate with the Anglo-Norman and Old French words are Catalan manilla (see manilla n.1) and Old Occitan manelha handle (15th cent.).
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.
2. A tether or shackle for a horse. Obsolete.
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.

Brit. /ˈmanəkl/, U.S. /ˈmænəkəl/
Forms: Middle English mankle, Middle English manycle, Middle English manykyl, Middle English– manacle, 1500s manakyll, 1500s mannacle, 1500s–1600s manackle, 1500s–1600s manicle, 1600s manakell, 1600s manckell (probably transmission error), 1700s mancle (Scottish).
Origin: Probably formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: manacle n.
Etymology: Probably < manacle n. Compare Anglo-Norman manacler (in the past participle, in a mid-14th cent. manuscript).
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.
manacling n. Obsolete rare
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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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