单词 | misplaced |
释义 | misplacedadj. 1. a. Devoted to or bestowed on a wrong or inappropriate object; out-of-place, unseasonable. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > [adjective] > placed in wrong position misplaced1563 out of place1748 malposed1900 malpositioned1946 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > disharmony or incongruity > unsuitability or inappropriateness > [adjective] > out of place misplaced1563 ill-placed1650 off-time1938 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > lack of truth, falsity > [adjective] > amiss, out of order amissc1325 out of harrea1327 wronga1425 wide1545 misplaced1563 awrya1586 ajar1807 off the rails1848 agley1882 blooey1920 off-centre1930 off base1940 snafued1944 off target1954 off beam1958 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > deception by illusion, delusion > [adjective] > of affections; placed amiss misplaced1563 1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye Ded. sig. Bviiv For of euery benefite, the receiuours gaine is the hearte... Yea, of suche force is the geuers mynde, as though Cicero accompte the misplaced benefyte losse, yet Aristotle aloweth this recompence. a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) iii. iv. 133 The mis-plac'd -Iohn. View more context for this quotation 1685 J. Bunyan Disc. Pharisee & Publicane 51 This misplacing of Gods Laws, cannot..but produce mis-shaped, and misplaced Obedience. 1759 O. Goldsmith Bee 20 Oct. 86 Misplaced liberality. 1814 C. Lamb Let. 13 Aug. in Lett. C. & M. A. Lamb (1978) III. 102 Ones romantic credulity is for ever misleading into misplaced acts of fool***—. 1953 P. Larkin Let. 4 Jan. in Sel. Lett. (1992) 192 I return with that familiar post-holiday feeling—misdirected energy, misplaced affection, misspent money! 2000 Daily Tel. 3 Jan. 3/1 As an example of millennial overhype and misplaced expenditure it beat even the River of Fire. b. That has been put in a wrong place; (also) mislaid, lost. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > [adjective] > lost > mislaid misplaced1566 mislaid1657 1566 in T. Heskyns Parl. Chryste sig. (⁂)viiv And let the binder looke to the order of the Ternions, for the signatorie letters be some wanting: some mysplaced. 1616 D. Leigh Mothers Blessing sig. A8 My Sonnes, the readers of this book, I doe you not intreate To beare with each misplaced word, for why, my paine's as great To write this little booke to you..As it will be at any time for you the same to read. 1797 E. Burke Third Let. Peace Regicide Directory France 2 The loose, misplaced stones..of this rough, ill kept..French causeway. 1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles II. xxxiii. 166 The incident of the misplaced letter. 1904 J. London Sea-wolf xvi. 148 I have seen Harrison called from his bunk to put properly away a misplaced paint-brush. 1921 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 10 Apr. 4/4 The delicate, poetic cast of features, and the misplaced eyebrow adorning the nether lip of these lounge lizards. 1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) i. ii. 34 She..used numerology to find her perpetually misplaced keys. 2012 Platform Summer 59/2 The play..has elements of high farce including..misunderstandings, slapstick, puns and a pair of misplaced spectacles. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > diseases of tissue > disorders of joints > [adjective] > gout > striking inwards misplaced1768 retrocedent1777 recedent1785 1768 F. Warner Full Acct. of Gout 150 Direct the Management of the Patient as to every Circumstance, from the Beginning of a Regular Fit to the End..and then of an Irregular Fit, or a Gout Misplaced. 1777 W. Cullen First Lines Pract. Physic I. cdlxxxvi. 372 The third state of irregular gout, which we name the misplaced, is when the gouty diathesis, instead of producing the inflammatory affection of the joints produces an inflammatory affection of some internal part. 1833 J. Forbes et al. Cycl. Pract. Med. II. 378/2 The term misplaced gout..has been applied to any and every incidental disease occurring in a gouty habit. For the most part such disease has been inflammatory... It has attacked the stomach, lungs, or brain. 1886 P. H. Pye-Smith Fagge's Princ. & Pract. Med. II. 519 The symptoms in question are those which are commonly described as being the effects of ‘irregular’ gout, the ordinary affection of the joints being, on the other hand, spoken of as ‘regular’ gout. Other epithets sometimes used instead of ‘irregular’ are ‘atonic’, ‘lurking’, ‘masked’ and ‘misplaced’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1563 |
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