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单词 absconded
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abscondedadj.

Brit. /əbˈskɒndᵻd/, /abˈskɒndᵻd/, U.S. /æbˈskɑndᵻd/, /əbˈskɑndᵻd/
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: abscond v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < abscond v. + -ed suffix1. Compare slightly later abscond adj.
1. Concealed, hidden away, secluded, secret. Obsolete.
ΚΠ
1652 C. Manuche Loyal Lovers i. i. 10 One that onely trusts this Gentleman with his absconded living.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 83 The Author was living in an absconded Condition in Fifteen hundred fifty & six.
1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. ii. 213 I am now oblig'd to go far in the pursuit of Beauty; which lies very absconded and deep.
1834 Ld. Houghton Mem. Many Scenes 42 The eager heart was wont To lead us to the boar's absconded rest, Unwearied.
2. Esp. of a criminal, debtor, etc.: that has absconded; escaped, fugitive.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > [adjective] > running away > having run away
fugitive1467
forloppin?a1513
runaway1548
runagate1653
absconded1735
decamped1887
1735 S. Bowden Poet. Ess. II. 130 May pirate Boys explore the Nest And there th'absconded Thief infest.
1855 Ladies' Repository Dec. 719/2 Carlo Ribas, an absconded Neapolitan felon.
a1905 L. Wallace Autobiogr. (1906) II. lxiii. 640 It remained for me to make report; and I did it to Secretary Stanton, advising that the absconded prisoners be let alone for a time.
1948 J. C. Miller Triumph of Freedom iii. 40 The Virginia House of Burgesses invited the absconded governor to return to Williamsburg and resume the exercise of his duties.
2007 Mirror (Nexis) 29 Dec. 19 Police who called at an absconded convict's Brighton home were told he wasn't there by his partner.

Derivatives

abˈscondedly adv. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > inaction > quietness or tranquillity > [adverb] > in concealment or retirement
abscondedly1691
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 537 He [sc. Thomas Fitzherbert] would now and then hear a sermon..by an old Roman priest that then lived abscondedly in Oxon.
1838 B. von Arnim Diary of Child 222 What could more inly, more abscondedly be embodied than this germ of future blossom?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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adj.1652
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