单词 | minatory |
释义 | minatoryadj.n. A. adj. Expressing, uttering, or conveying a threat; (also) of the nature of a threat or menace; threatening, menacing. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] ticklec1325 boastful1382 threatinga1400 menacing?a1439 louringa1450 shoring1513 threatening1530 minatory1532 threatful?1567 minanta1657 minacious1660 menaceful1742 minitant1854 minitabund1890 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 612/1 Those wordes be mynatory and threttes. 1543 R. Grafton Contin. in Chron. J. Hardyng f. lxxxiv Kyng Richard..reiected the dukes request, with many spitefull & minotary woordes. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande iii. f. 12 v/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I With rough and minatory speaches [he] began to menace them. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 75 The King also made a Statute in that Parliament, Monitory and Minatory, towards Iustices of Peace, that they should duly execute their office. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 59 This minatory Agitation of the Hand. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. p. viii I was obliged to retire, not by fear arising from his minatory reproaches, which, as I said above, I value not of a rush; but from the sudden effect produced by a barbel's row. 1851 T. Carlyle Life J. Sterling i. xiii. 113 Considerable clouds of Invasion..hung minatory over the North and North-East of Spain. 1898 J. E. C. Bodley France II. iv. vii. 425 A doctrine minatory to the army of France. 1918 A. G. Gardiner Leaves in Wind 176 You can never be absolutely sure of a man's moral nature..until you have..liberated him from the conventions and respectabilities that encompass him with minatory fingers and vigilant eyes. 1944 R. Lehmann Ballad & Source 13 A life-wish so crackling with energy that it could overcome no matter what minatory fate. 1965 L. Trilling Beyond Culture (1967) 70 Another morality..regards with a stern and even minatory gaze all that is implied by affluence. 2008 A. Davies Mine All Mine 13 We..start circling each other in deep kung-fu stances, making threatening movements—dog-paddle punches, minatory half-kicks. A threat, a menace. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > a threat menacec1300 menacec1350 minatory1572 1572 Ld. Burleigh in D. Digges Compl. Ambassador (1655) 334 With some sweet minatories, he intrated that he might be staied. 1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 525 The Emperor sending his Minatories to the K: of Denmark. Derivatives ˈminatoriness n. rare ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [noun] > threatening quality minaciousness1825 threateningness1891 minatoriness1961 1961 J. N. Findlay Values & Intentions viii. 344 Acknowledging a God capable of such universal minatoriness. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1532 |
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