单词 | misdrawing |
释义 | misdrawingn.ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > change of direction of movement > [noun] > (a) deviation from straight course blenching1398 turna1400 misdrawing?a1425 swerving1545 digression1552 sklenting1568 excursion1603 diverting1611 diversion1626 deflection1646 deflexure1656 prevarication1672 deviation1675 evagation1692 departurea1694 swerve1736 twist1798 out-throw1855 throw1858 turnaway1922 ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iii. pr. xii. 108 Ȝif ther were a yok of mysdrawynges [L. detrectantium] in diverse parties. c1475 ( in Eng. Hist. Rev. (1911) 26 519 (MED) How many prive conventicles undir thaire tuicion and support have ben made to þe subversion and misdrawynge of many men. 2. A mistake in a drawing; a faulty drawing or delineation. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > drawing > [noun] > a drawing > faulty misdrawing1872 1872 R. A. Proctor Ess. Astron. iv. 59 A small misdrawing in an orthographic presentation of a planet. 1905 C. F. Keary in Author 1 Feb. 144 Leslie's misdrawings of mob-capped maidens. 1992 Seattle Times (Nexis) 14 May a13 More even than the partition of Hungary or the misdrawing of Poland, the cobbling together of Yugoslavia..exemplified the ostensibly benevolent misconstructions of the Versailles conference. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?a1425 |
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