单词 | minded |
释义 | † mindedadj.1 Obsolete. That has been mentioned; aforementioned. Cf. fore-minded adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attention > attracting attention > [adjective] > mentioned mindedc1460 mentioned1531 recited1534 c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 92 (MED) To þe myndid religiouse men and to þe forsaide church. a1475 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Godstow Nunnery (1906) ii. 424 (MED) The mynded luke yaf to the mynded William at the entryng vij mark. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxxxii. f. xxxvi He then buylded the Castell before myndyd. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). mindedadj.2 1. a. In predicative use only: intending, disposed, inclined to (†for to) (do something). to be so minded: to be inclined to do what has been mentioned or specified. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > wish or inclination > [adjective] disposedc1340 willed1417 affecta1425 willinga1425 affectionatec1487 mindedc1487 talenteda1500 well-minded1524 affectioned?1532 affectionated1561 mindful1565 aminded1571 ingineda1583 affected1584 pregnant1604 in the (also a) —— mooda1625 fond1666 apt1677 the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [adjective] > having specific disposition hearteda1200 cheeredc1225 entechedc1374 tempered1390 disposedc1430 conditioneda1450 mindedc1487 conceited?1536 inclined1543 natured1552 humoured1566 mettled1576 digested1607 complexioned1643 dispositioned1646 complexionated1650 constitutioned1711 complexionate1750 temperamented- c1487 J. Skelton tr. Diodorus Siculus Bibliotheca Historica iv. 296 This noble and myghty prynce..was mynded euermore to observe the cours and disposition of the starry heven. 1503–4 Act 19 Hen. VII c. 28 Preamble His Highnes is not mynded..to calle & somone a newe parliament. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 482/1 He was so mynded yesterday, but I have chaunged his purpose nowe. a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Boke M. Aurelius (1559) sig. Oo iijv For if that the goddes giue me longe life, I am mynded for to amende. 1592 T. Kyd Trueth Murthering of Brewen 6 But if I were so minded (quoth he) I would be twice aduised how I did wed with such a strumpet as thy selfe. 1607 (?a1425) Chester Plays (Harl. 2124) i. 230 Go we therfore, Brethren, while the day is light, To doe my fathers workes, as I am fully minded. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures lxx. 285 I am not minded to make mention of them. 1700 Moxon's Mech. Exercises: Bricklayers-wks. 13 They are minded to make their Plastering very streight and even. 1757 Poor Robin sig. A7v If you are minded for to wed..Let her be..chaste..Lest if at Cuckolds Point you land, [etc.]. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals iv. i Ne'er a St. [sic] Lucius O'Trigger in the kingdom should make me fight, when I wa'n't so minded. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary III. viii. 169 I am no minded to answer ony o' thae questions. 1861 J. W. Carlyle Lett. III. 73 Mr. C. was minded to go nowhere this summer. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid iv, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 214 I am minded to finish the rite..Sacred to Stygian Jove. 1915 F. M. Hueffer Good Soldier iv. ii. 227 I was pretty busy at the time and I was half minded to send him a reply cable to the effect that I would start in a fortnight. 1955 Times 29 Aug. 5/1 For those who are so minded, the explanation of Dr. Adenauer's position helps to put first things first. 1996 H. Marks Mr Nice (1998) v. 115 You can rest assured that the police are not minded to arrest you. b. Chiefly in predicative use: having a specified disposition towards a person or thing. Cf. well-minded adj. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > state of feeling or mood > [adjective] > having certain disposition towards minded1512 1512 Lett. James IV 264 [James affirms that he] never wes mindit uthirways to yow. a1535 T. More Hist. Richard III in Wks. (1557) 37/2 Whiche [sc. Clarence's death] hee [sc. Richard] resisted openly, howbeit somwhat (as menne deme) more faintly then he yt wer hartely minded to his welth. 1579 W. Wilkinson Confut. Familye of Loue f. 3 He..standeth minded agaynst God, and his Church. 1587 R. Holinshed et al. Hist. Eng. (new ed.) vi. xvi. 148/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I This worthie prince minded well toward the common wealth of his people..did studie..to instruct his subiects. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. i. 57 We come..to know How you stand minded in the waighty difference Betweene the King and you. View more context for this quotation 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 218 As to assert Two Gods, contrarily minded to one another. 1854 H. H. Wilson tr. Rig-veda II. 158 Creator of the Maruts, favourably-minded towards us, grant us those blessings which are most dear to thee. 1939 E. C. Mayne & J. Riviere tr. S. Freud Civilization, War & Death 24 Our unconscious is just as..murderously minded toward the stranger..as was man in earliest antiquity. 2. With prefixed adjective or noun (chiefly in parasynthetic formations): having a mind of a specified character.The more common words of this formation, as absent-, bloody-, double-, feeble-, healthy-, high-, noble-, strong-minded, etc., as well as many of the less common ones, are given either as headwords or as compounds at their first element.Recorded earliest in high-minded adj. ΚΠ ?1503 J. Flamank in J. Gairdner Lett. Reigns of Richard III & Henry VII (1861) I. 239 The lady Luce was a proude hij myndyd woman, and lovyth not the kyngis grace. 1528 W. Tyndale Parable Wicked Mammon in Wks. I. 105 Were altogether worldly and fleshly-minded. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie i. viii. 13 Being a quiet mynded man and nothing ambitious of glory. 1603 tr. Batchelars Banquet sig. F2 The humor of a couetous minded woman. 1651 T. Randolph et al. Hey for Honesty sig. A3 Muck-worm-minded men. 1777 S. Johnson Let. in H. L. Piozzi Lett. to & from S. Johnson (1788) I. 389 I suspect a winder to be always a man vacant, and commonly little-minded. 1830 H. C. Backhouse Jrnl. 25 Sept. in Jrnl. & Lett. (1858) vi. 84 Several of the..doubtful-minded were present. 1872 C. J. Lever Ld. Kilgobbin (1875) 172 Supporters, one-minded with them in everything. 1926 C. Day Lewis in Oxf. Poetry 19 What sense Have they the pioneer-minded, the rebel-hearted, If man's fulfilment rest on no ‘perhaps’ Outside him? 1988 Plays Internat. Dec. 8 European-minded British director, Pierre Audi, who bows out of the Almeida theatre to work in Belgium. 1993 I. Rilke tr. C. Nooteboom Following Story (1996) 19 I was in love, and thus a member of the same weak, glutinous fraternity of one-track-minded automatons which I had always claimed to despise. 3. With preceding adverb. a. Habitually thinking, inclined to think, or capable of thinking in a specified manner.Frequently hyphenated when compound is used attributively. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > disposition or character > [adjective] > constitutionally disposed to minded1529 complexionated1653 the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [adjective] > inclined set13.. tendenta1340 disposedc1380 enclinant1400 inclining?c1400 inclinedc1405 prone1408 hieldingc1480 talenteda1500 inclinablea1513 prone1528 propense1528 minded1529 propensed1530 ready1533 proclivec1540 fit1574 tending to1578 forward1581 minded1588 propensive1599 intense1620 propendenta1646 propended1693 calculated1723 oriented1925 prone1926 turned1931 orientated1964 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iii, in Wks. 213/2 Diuers yonge scolers such as thei founde..newfangly minded. 1599 J. Rainolds Overthrow Stage-playes 35 An occasion of drawing & provoking corruptlie minded men to most heinous wickednes. 1611 Bible (King James) Rom. viii. 6 For to be carnally minded [1535 Coverdale fleshly mynded; cf. sense 2], is death: but to be spiritually minded, is life and peace [1535 Coverdale goostly mynded] . View more context for this quotation 1642 T. Fuller Holy State v. xi. 405 None but devils and men devilishly minded. 1700 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Rom. viii. 6 The End and Condition of all carnally minded Persons..is death; always Demeritoriously, that which deserves Death. 1867 F. Francis Bk. Angling (1880) i. 31 A bait for roach when they are vegetably-minded. 1890 Spectator 3 May From the point of view of an imperially-minded Englishman. 1903 Daily Chron. 9 Jan. 3/3 Rather monotonous even to the most commercially and statistically-minded. 1930 Heal & Son Catal. 2 Heal & Son had realized the fatuity of eternally reproducing the styles of the past ages long before this had been appreciated by most logically minded people. 1983 J. Jones Dostoevsky i. 8 This world can be, has been invaded and taken over by religious and mystically minded people. 1996 C. Bateman Of Wee Sweetie Mice & Men v. 41 I was never politically minded. b. In uses more regularly expressed by parasynthetic formations with the corresponding adjective (see sense 2). ΚΠ a1596 G. Peele Anglorum Feriæ in Wks. (1839) III. 186 Both nobly-minded, and became them well, Resolv'd to run in honour of the day. 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. xix. 271 They are bloodily minded, for if they cannot get money, they will do any murder. 1712 A. Philips Distrest Mother iv. viii. 43 Pyrrhus is nobly minded; and I fain Would live to thank him for Astyanax. 1828 Sporting Mag. 22 229 This man was strongly minded. 1843 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters I. 236 We are in the constant hope of seeing this finely-minded artist shake off his lethargy. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets vii. 227 Make not fine speeches, but be rightly minded! 1945 L. Lane How to become Comedian i. 11 The majority of comedians I have met are very seriously minded in private life: it's a relief from their trade of laughter-making. 1998 Racing Post (Electronic ed.) 27 Aug. It never ceases to amaze me why seriously minded people send letters to the Racing Post on the subject of jockeys' sponsorship. 4. As the final element of a compound formed with a noun: interested in or preoccupied with the thing specified.Usually forming adjectives but occasionally forming nouns. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > state or condition > tendency > [adjective] > inclined set13.. tendenta1340 disposedc1380 enclinant1400 inclining?c1400 inclinedc1405 prone1408 hieldingc1480 talenteda1500 inclinablea1513 prone1528 propense1528 minded1529 propensed1530 ready1533 proclivec1540 fit1574 tending to1578 forward1581 minded1588 propensive1599 intense1620 propendenta1646 propended1693 calculated1723 oriented1925 prone1926 turned1931 orientated1964 1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children sig. C3 One of these money minded parents. 1877 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 10) xviii. 264 Their holy and apostolic crew Peace minded, who with love all worlds, all souls, subdue. 1907 Daily Chron. 12 Oct. 4/7 Allah forfend, my pleasure-minded love, That aught shall harm thee in the Desert Lands. 1932 Daily Express 27 June 11/3 Get travel-minded. 1966 C. Mackenzie Paper Lives viii. 109 You must get computer-minded and appreciate that with the development of automation more and more people will be out of employment. 1990 Times Educ. Suppl. 12 Oct. 23/5 To the acronym-minded, TOIL with education may be an accurate description of the fate of those working within the system. 1999 Teacher Mar. 7/3 A certain type of career-minded individual who doesn't share ideas or believe in teamwork but looks after Number One. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1c1460adj.2c1487 |
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