molestn.

Brit.

/məˈlɛst/, U.S.

/məˈlɛst/

Forms: Middle English moleste, Middle English 1600s 1800s– molest; Scottish pre-1700 molest.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French moleste.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moleste, molest and Middle French moleste trouble, hardship, affliction, harm (1155 in Old French), apparently < post-classical Latin *molesta , unattested variant of classical Latin molestia trouble (see molestie n.). Compare Old Occitan molesta (14th cent.), Italian molesta (13th cent.), Spanish molesta (1425).

Now rare.

Trouble, hardship; molestation, injury.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction

teeneOE

harmOE

sourc1000

trayOE

angec1175

wosithc1200

ail?c1225

barrat?c1225

misease?c1225

passion?c1225

troublec1230

sorenessc1275

grievancea1300

cumbermentc1300

cumbering1303

thro1303

angera1325

strifea1325

sweama1325

encumbrancec1330

tribulationc1330

threst1340

mischiefa1375

pressc1375

unhend1377

miseasetya1382

angernessc1390

molestc1390

troublancec1400

notea1425

miseasenessc1450

cumber?a1513

tribule1513

unseasonableness?1523

troublesomeness1561

tribulance1575

tine1590

trials and tribulations1591

pressure1648

difficulty1667

hell to pay1758

dree1791

trial and tribulation1792

Queer Street1811

Sturm und Drang1857

a thin time1924

shit1929

crap1932

shtook1936

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile interference

molestc1390

vexationa1425

molestation1435

molesting1523

molestance1642

c1390 in C. Innes Registrum Honoris de Morton (1853) I. App. xl Thou..tuk away twenty-one beistis..doand to the..men beforsaid il molest wrang and greif.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5434 Þe kyng þere-of hadde molest.

c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5802 (MED) Of wondres nadden hij more siȝth..And of þe wederes stronge and tempestes, Þat hem duden grete molestes.

c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 577 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 505 What grevous molest and what besynesse..doth vs to doute!

1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xviii. 58 Neuertheles, they lefte not to lodge hem self there, what for daunger nor moleste that men coude do to them.

1616 Greenes Mourning Garment (new ed.) sig. K2 Thus clogg'd with loue, with passions and with griefe, I saw the country life had least molest.

1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clxxxv. 821 You have victory,..and acquire what you desired..even out of these molests.

1865 W. J. Linton Claribel & Other Poems 53 Alfred..Sat down to keep the feast of Epiphany Within his walls, secure from all molest.

1994 New Paper (Singapore) 1 Oct. 32/2 The sad thing about molest is that though it is physical, the harm is always mental and emotional anguish.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

† molestadj.

Forms: late Middle English moleste, 1500s molest; Scottish pre-1700 molest.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French moleste; Latin molestus.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moleste, molest and Middle French moleste (1164 in Old French) and their etymon classical Latin molestus (see molest v.). Compare Old Occitan molest (15th cent.), Catalan molest (1489), Spanish molesto (1424).

Obsolete. rare.

Injurious; troublesome, vexatious.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious

angeeOE

swinkfuleOE

plightlyOE

teenfulOE

contrariousc1320

drefa1325

troublinga1325

despitousa1340

thornya1340

discomfortablec1350

troublablec1374

noyousa1382

noyfulc1384

diseasy1387

angrya1393

painful1395

hackinga1400

annoying?c1400

annoyousc1400

cumbrousc1400

teenc1400

annoyfulc1405

sputousc1420

diseasefula1425

molest?a1425

noying?a1425

noisomea1450

grievingc1450

tedious?1454

troublous1463

noisantc1475

displeasant1481

strouble1488

nuisant1494

noyanta1500

irksome1513

sturting1513

molestious1524

vexatious1534

cumbersome1535

uncommodious1541

spiteful1548

vexing?1548

incommodious1551

molestous1555

diseasing1558

grating1563

pestilent1565

sturtsome1570

molestuousa1572

troublesome1573

murrain1575

discommodable1579

galling1583

spiny1586

unsupportable1586

troubleful1588

plaguey1594

distressingc1595

molestful1596

molesting1598

vexful1598

fretful1603

briery1604

bemadding1608

mortifying1611

tiry1611

distressfula1616

irking1629

angersome1649

disobliging1652

discomforting1654

incomfortable1655

incommode1672

ruffling1680

unconvenient1683

pestifying1716

trying1718

offending1726

bothering1765

pesky1775

weary1785

sturty1788

unaccommodating1790

tiresome1798

werriting1808

bothersome1817

plaguesome1828

pestilential1833

fretsome1834

languorous1834

pesty1834

pestersome1843

nettlesome1845

miserable1850

niggling1854

distempering1855

be-maddeninga1861

nattery1873

nagging1883

pestiferous1890

trouble-giving1893

maddening1896

molestive1905

nuisancy1906

balls-aching?1912

nuisance1922

nattering1949

noodgy1969

dickheaded1991

dickish1991

cockish1996

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 69^v Of drawing out of þingez infixed þat it be lesse moleste, i. disesy.

a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. vii. 96 The quhilk Drances was the self man That..Was rycht molest to Turnus euermor.

1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) sig. Hviii Many there be which while they studye to do a man good, do him moch harme, or otherwise be molest and greuouse vnto him.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

molestv.

Brit.

/məˈlɛst/, U.S.

/məˈlɛst/

Forms: late Middle English moleste (past participle), late Middle English–1500s moleste, late Middle English– molest, 1500s–1600s mollest, 1600s molest (past tense); Scottish pre-1700 melest (transmission error), pre-1700 molest (past participle), pre-1700 mollest, pre-1700 mollest (past participle), pre-1700 1700s– molest.

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French molester.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French molester to trouble, annoy, harm (early 13th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin molestāre to trouble, annoy < molestus troublesome, burdensome, annoying < the same base as mōlēs mass, burden (see mole n.²) + -tus, suffix forming adjectives. Compare Italian molestare (a1292), Old Occitan molestar (1440), Catalan molestar (1360), Spanish molestar (1325).

a. transitive. To cause trouble, grief, or vexation to; to disturb, annoy, inconvenience. Occasionally intransitive. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex

gremec893

dretchc900

awhenec1000

teenOE

fretc1290

annoyc1300

atrayc1320

encumberc1330

diseasec1340

grindc1350

distemperc1386

offenda1387

arra1400

avexa1400

derea1400

miscomforta1400

angerc1400

engrievec1400

vex1418

molesta1425

entrouble?1435

destroublea1450

poina1450

rubc1450

to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450

disprofit1483

agrea1492

trouble1515

grig1553

mis-set?1553

nip?1553

grate1555

gripe1559

spitec1563

fike?1572

gall1573

corsie1574

corrosive1581

touch1581

disaccommodate1586

macerate1588

perplex1590

thorn1592

exulcerate1593

plague1595

incommode1598

affret1600

brier1601

to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603

discommodate1606

incommodate1611

to grate on or upon1631

disincommodate1635

shog1636

ulcerate1647

incommodiate1650

to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653

discommodiate1654

discommode1657

ruffle1659

regrate1661

disoblige1668

torment1718

pesta1729

chagrin1734

pingle1740

bothera1745

potter1747

wherrit1762

to tweak the nose of1784

to play up1803

tout1808

rasp1810

outrage1818

worrit1818

werrit1825

buggerlug1850

taigle1865

get1867

to give a person the pip1881

to get across ——1888

nark1888

eat1893

to twist the tail1895

dudgeon1906

to tweak the tail of1909

sore1929

to put up1930

wouldn't it rip you!1941

sheg1943

to dick around1944

cheese1946

to pee off1946

to honk off1970

to fuck off1973

to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977

to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983

to wind up1984

to dick about1996

to-teen-

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed [verb (intransitive)] > cause annoyance or vexation

to work (also do) annoyc1300

noya1387

to do noisance1437

molest1580

bothera1774

annoy1848

needle1874

stir1972

a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 880 But how this cas dooth Troilus moleste, That may non erthely mannes tonge seye.

c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 749 (MED) It was no þing in her entencioun..For to moleste or greuen ony wyȝt.

1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 26 Elysse faynynge that she ne myghte no lenger duelle in the hous of Acerbe late her husbonde, bycause that she was overmoche moleste and greved by [etc.].

1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 35 For lacke of the saide water [they] shall be muche greeued annoyed and molested.

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 645 Neither will I molest you with the recitall of all the perticulers thereof.

1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 103 Your pardons obteined, if I offend in sharpnesse, and your patience graunted, if molest in length, I thus begin to conclude against you al, [etc.].

1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden ii. 5 If ouer-flowing molest you after one day, auoid it then by deepe trenching.

a1667 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose These are the small uneasie things Which about Greatness still are found, And rather it Molest than Wound.

1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 72 The Colds of Winter, and the Heats of Summer, are equally incapable of molesting you.

1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 4/1 The Western..Reflections of the Sun..molest us most of all: because they double the Heat.

1760 R. Lloyd Actor in Ann. Reg. 218 Of all the evils which the Stage molest, I hate your fool who overacts his jest.

1827 D. Douglas Jrnl. 20 Apr. (1914) 249 Was molested out of my life by the men singing their boat-songs.

1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 48 Prudent suspicions still molest the Captain.

1974 J. Gardner Nickel Mountain vi. vi. 253 He knew that despite his principles he'd be molested from time to time by doubts.

†b. transitive. Of a disease: to afflict or affect, esp. recurrently. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > affect or afflict

aileOE

takec1300

visitc1340

troublec1400

vex?c1425

surprise1485

vizy1488

attaintc1534

heart-burn?1537

molest1559

gar1614

possess1617

misaffect1618

corrept1657

invalid1803

1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 374 And another certain person molested [L. infestatus] for iii yeares with the Ascarides,..was restored with this iuice once received.

1564 P. Moore Hope of Health ii. sig. Gvii To preserue themselfes from the daunger of any disease, that is like shortly to ensue and moleste them.

1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 268 If he be molested still, with that mischiefous maladie.

1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. viii. 299 With the French poxe I think that no other countrie vnder heauen is so molested.

1601 T. Wright Passions of Minde iv. 30 If the Passions of the Minde be not moderated according to reason..immediately the soule is molested with some maladie.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xiii. 253 Using continuall riding, they were generally molested with the Sciatica or hippegowte.

1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 252 He has been..generally molested with a Diarrhœa for some years past.

1770 S. Johnson Let. 1 May (1992) I. 337 A..painful Rheumatism..continues to molest me.

1802 E. Malone Let. 20 July in Percy Lett. (1944) I. 101 I have been for some time past molested with the gout.

1823 Ld. Byron Let. 12 Oct. (1981) XI. 44 I have been less molested [by headaches] since that period.

a. transitive. To interfere or meddle with (a person, animal, etc.) injuriously or with hostile intent; to pester or harass, esp. in an aggressive or persistent manner. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)]

tawc893

ermec897

swencheOE

besetOE

bestandc1000

teenOE

baitc1175

grieve?c1225

war?c1225

noyc1300

pursuec1300

travailc1300

to work (also do) annoyc1300

tribula1325

worka1325

to hold wakenc1330

chase1340

twistc1374

wrap1380

cumbera1400

harrya1400

vexc1410

encumber1413

inquiet1413

molest?a1425

course1466

persecutec1475

trouble1489

sturt1513

hare1523

hag1525

hale1530

exercise1531

to grate on or upon1532

to hold or keep waking1533

infest1533

scourge1540

molestate1543

pinch1548

trounce1551

to shake upa1556

tire1558

moila1560

pester1566

importune1578

hunt1583

moider1587

bebait1589

commacerate1596

bepester1600

ferret1600

harsell1603

hurry1611

gall1614

betoil1622

weary1633

tribulatea1637

harass1656

dun1659

overharry1665

worry1671

haul1678

to plague the life out of1746

badger1782

hatchel1800

worry1811

bedevil1823

devil1823

victimize1830

frab1848

mither1848

to pester the life out of1848

haik1855

beplague1870

chevy1872

obsede1876

to get on ——1880

to load up with1880

tail-twist1898

hassle1901

heckle1920

snooter1923

hassle1945

to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946

to bust (a person's) chops1953

noodge1960

monster1967

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > interfere with in hostile manner

molest?a1425

molestate1543

mislestc1573

society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > assault sexually

abuse1447

rouze1582

touse1624

tousle1839

molest1902

interfere1948

?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 50 Ȝif he touched þe visibel spirites wiþ outen mene of þe humor cristalline, he schulde molesten him to hugelye.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxi Certayne men of the Duchie of Burgoyne..gaue vnto hym to the entent he shulde nat Molest or hurte that Countre, CC. M. Floryns of golde.

1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Jvij Their chiefe studie is, in no case to moleste their neyghboures.

1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 443 Another companie of mice ioyned with these, and molested them more then before.

1659 J. Milton Treat. Civil Power 34 No protestant..ought, by the common doctrine of protestants, to be forc'd or molested for religion.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 231 in Justice Vindicated No person shall be molested for any offences abovesaid.

1694 T. Ken Morning & Evening-Hymn in New-Year's Gift 113 Let not..Powers of Darkness me molest.

1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vi. vii. 69/1 In the year 1683 the House of Nicholas Desborough..was very strangely molested by Stones, by pieces of Earth, by Cobs of Indian Corn.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 115 By the statute 1 & 2 Ph. & Mar. c. 8. to molest the possessors of abbey lands granted by parliament to Henry the eighth, and Edward the sixth, is a praemunire.

1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. v. 115 If further molested, it [sc. a lizard] buries itself with great quickness in the loose sand.

1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ii. 20 Prussians, under strict discipline, molest no private person.

1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxix. 213 Fifty other ‘mines’ that had never been molested by a shovel or scratched with a pick.

1902 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. II. vii. 156 It does not seem..to follow that she intended to persecute or molest Protestants.

1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 182 When I had sworn—as I did—that she should never be molested again, she consented to remain.

1973 E. Caldwell Annette (1974) vii. i. 151 Police records revealed that a person was more likely to be mugged or assaulted or otherwise molested in downtown Zephyrfield.

b. transitive. spec. To harass, attack, or abuse sexually.

ΚΠ

1889 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 386 It appears that the crew of an English barque..provoked the natives by molesting their women.

1938 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 25 425 The post-bellum assertion that a slave during the war never molested a white woman is refuted by specific example.

1955 Court-martial Rep. (U.S.) 18 691/1 Patrick was sure it was the same man who had molested him, by his nose, his eyes, his glasses, his hair and his voice.

1972 A. Sillitoe Raw Material v. 21 She would carry a bag of pepper to throw in the face of any man who might try to molest her.

1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Dec. a1/1 An Ontario woman awarded $284,000 in damages against the father who molested her from the time she was 5.

†3. transitive. To tamper with (a thing). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > interfere in or meddle with > tamper with

molest1603

monkey1878

1603 True Narration Entertainm. His Maiestie sig. E4^v A great common (which as the people there-about complaine, sir I. Spenser of London hath very vncharitable molested).

1665 W. Killigrew Ormasdes i, in Three Playes 6 Such proffer'd gifts from Princes are not us'd To be molested, and much less refus'd.

1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 366 When it was first molested, some of the tomb stones were removed.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	molest
释义	molestn. Brit. /məˈlɛst/, U.S. /məˈlɛst/ Forms: Middle English moleste, Middle English 1600s 1800s– molest; Scottish pre-1700 molest. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French moleste. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moleste, molest and Middle French moleste trouble, hardship, affliction, harm (1155 in Old French), apparently < post-classical Latin molesta , unattested variant of classical Latin molestia* trouble (see molestie n.). Compare Old Occitan molesta (14th cent.), Italian molesta (13th cent.), Spanish molesta (1425). Now rare. Trouble, hardship; molestation, injury. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction teeneOE harmOE sourc1000 trayOE angec1175 wosithc1200 ail?c1225 barrat?c1225 misease?c1225 passion?c1225 troublec1230 sorenessc1275 grievancea1300 cumbermentc1300 cumbering1303 thro1303 angera1325 strifea1325 sweama1325 encumbrancec1330 tribulationc1330 threst1340 mischiefa1375 pressc1375 unhend1377 miseasetya1382 angernessc1390 molestc1390 troublancec1400 notea1425 miseasenessc1450 cumber?a1513 tribule1513 unseasonableness?1523 troublesomeness1561 tribulance1575 tine1590 trials and tribulations1591 pressure1648 difficulty1667 hell to pay1758 dree1791 trial and tribulation1792 Queer Street1811 Sturm und Drang1857 a thin time1924 shit1929 crap1932 shtook1936 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > [noun] > hostile interference molestc1390 vexationa1425 molestation1435 molesting1523 molestance1642 c1390 in C. Innes Registrum Honoris de Morton (1853) I. App. xl Thou..tuk away twenty-one beistis..doand to the..men beforsaid il molest wrang and greif. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5434 Þe kyng þere-of hadde molest. c1400 (?a1300) Kyng Alisaunder (Laud) (1952) 5802 (MED) Of wondres nadden hij more siȝth..And of þe wederes stronge and tempestes, Þat hem duden grete molestes. c1460 (a1449) J. Lydgate Fabula Duorum Mercatorum (Harl.) 577 in Minor Poems (1934) ii. 505 What grevous molest and what besynesse..doth vs to doute! 1490 Caxton's Blanchardyn & Eglantine (1962) xviii. 58 Neuertheles, they lefte not to lodge hem self there, what for daunger nor moleste that men coude do to them. 1616 Greenes Mourning Garment (new ed.) sig. K2 Thus clogg'd with loue, with passions and with griefe, I saw the country life had least molest. 1647 W. Lilly Christian Astrol. clxxxv. 821 You have victory,..and acquire what you desired..even out of these molests. 1865 W. J. Linton Claribel & Other Poems 53 Alfred..Sat down to keep the feast of Epiphany Within his walls, secure from all molest. 1994 New Paper (Singapore) 1 Oct. 32/2 The sad thing about molest is that though it is physical, the harm is always mental and emotional anguish. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † molestadj. Forms: late Middle English moleste, 1500s molest; Scottish pre-1700 molest. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French moleste; Latin molestus. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman moleste, molest and Middle French moleste (1164 in Old French) and their etymon classical Latin molestus (see molest v.). Compare Old Occitan molest (15th cent.), Catalan molest (1489), Spanish molesto (1424). Obsolete. rare. Injurious; troublesome, vexatious. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > [adjective] > annoying or vexatious angeeOE swinkfuleOE plightlyOE teenfulOE contrariousc1320 drefa1325 troublinga1325 despitousa1340 thornya1340 discomfortablec1350 troublablec1374 noyousa1382 noyfulc1384 diseasy1387 angrya1393 painful1395 hackinga1400 annoying?c1400 annoyousc1400 cumbrousc1400 teenc1400 annoyfulc1405 sputousc1420 diseasefula1425 molest?a1425 noying?a1425 noisomea1450 grievingc1450 tedious?1454 troublous1463 noisantc1475 displeasant1481 strouble1488 nuisant1494 noyanta1500 irksome1513 sturting1513 molestious1524 vexatious1534 cumbersome1535 uncommodious1541 spiteful1548 vexing?1548 incommodious1551 molestous1555 diseasing1558 grating1563 pestilent1565 sturtsome1570 molestuousa1572 troublesome1573 murrain1575 discommodable1579 galling1583 spiny1586 unsupportable1586 troubleful1588 plaguey1594 distressingc1595 molestful1596 molesting1598 vexful1598 fretful1603 briery1604 bemadding1608 mortifying1611 tiry1611 distressfula1616 irking1629 angersome1649 disobliging1652 discomforting1654 incomfortable1655 incommode1672 ruffling1680 unconvenient1683 pestifying1716 trying1718 offending1726 bothering1765 pesky1775 weary1785 sturty1788 unaccommodating1790 tiresome1798 werriting1808 bothersome1817 plaguesome1828 pestilential1833 fretsome1834 languorous1834 pesty1834 pestersome1843 nettlesome1845 miserable1850 niggling1854 distempering1855 be-maddeninga1861 nattery1873 nagging1883 pestiferous1890 trouble-giving1893 maddening1896 molestive1905 nuisancy1906 balls-aching?1912 nuisance1922 nattering1949 noodgy1969 dickheaded1991 dickish1991 cockish1996 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 69^v Of drawing out of þingez infixed þat it be lesse moleste, i. disesy. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. vii. 96 The quhilk Drances was the self man That..Was rycht molest to Turnus euermor. 1545 R. Taverner tr. Erasmus Prouerbes (new ed.) sig. Hviii Many there be which while they studye to do a man good, do him moch harme, or otherwise be molest and greuouse vnto him. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020). molestv. Brit. /məˈlɛst/, U.S. /məˈlɛst/ Forms: late Middle English moleste (past participle), late Middle English–1500s moleste, late Middle English– molest, 1500s–1600s mollest, 1600s molest (past tense); Scottish pre-1700 melest (transmission error), pre-1700 molest (past participle), pre-1700 mollest, pre-1700 mollest (past participle), pre-1700 1700s– molest. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French molester. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Middle French molester to trouble, annoy, harm (early 13th cent. in Old French) < classical Latin molestāre to trouble, annoy < molestus troublesome, burdensome, annoying < the same base as mōlēs mass, burden (see mole n.²) + -tus, suffix forming adjectives. Compare Italian molestare (a1292), Old Occitan molestar (1440), Catalan molestar (1360), Spanish molestar (1325). 1. a. transitive. To cause trouble, grief, or vexation to; to disturb, annoy, inconvenience. Occasionally intransitive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed by [verb (transitive)] > annoy or vex gremec893 dretchc900 awhenec1000 teenOE fretc1290 annoyc1300 atrayc1320 encumberc1330 diseasec1340 grindc1350 distemperc1386 offenda1387 arra1400 avexa1400 derea1400 miscomforta1400 angerc1400 engrievec1400 vex1418 molesta1425 entrouble?1435 destroublea1450 poina1450 rubc1450 to wring (a person) on the mailsc1450 disprofit1483 agrea1492 trouble1515 grig1553 mis-set?1553 nip?1553 grate1555 gripe1559 spitec1563 fike?1572 gall1573 corsie1574 corrosive1581 touch1581 disaccommodate1586 macerate1588 perplex1590 thorn1592 exulcerate1593 plague1595 incommode1598 affret1600 brier1601 to gall or tread on (one's) kibes1603 discommodate1606 incommodate1611 to grate on or upon1631 disincommodate1635 shog1636 ulcerate1647 incommodiate1650 to put (a person) out of his (her, etc.) way1653 discommodiate1654 discommode1657 ruffle1659 regrate1661 disoblige1668 torment1718 pesta1729 chagrin1734 pingle1740 bothera1745 potter1747 wherrit1762 to tweak the nose of1784 to play up1803 tout1808 rasp1810 outrage1818 worrit1818 werrit1825 buggerlug1850 taigle1865 get1867 to give a person the pip1881 to get across ——1888 nark1888 eat1893 to twist the tail1895 dudgeon1906 to tweak the tail of1909 sore1929 to put up1930 wouldn't it rip you!1941 sheg1943 to dick around1944 cheese1946 to pee off1946 to honk off1970 to fuck off1973 to tweak (a person's or thing's) tail1977 to tweak (a person's or thing's) nose1983 to wind up1984 to dick about1996 to-teen- the mind > emotion > suffering > state of annoyance or vexation > be annoyed or vexed [verb (intransitive)] > cause annoyance or vexation to work (also do) annoyc1300 noya1387 to do noisance1437 molest1580 bothera1774 annoy1848 needle1874 stir1972 a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) iv. 880 But how this cas dooth Troilus moleste, That may non erthely mannes tonge seye. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 749 (MED) It was no þing in her entencioun..For to moleste or greuen ony wyȝt. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Eneydos vi. 26 Elysse faynynge that she ne myghte no lenger duelle in the hous of Acerbe late her husbonde, bycause that she was overmoche moleste and greved by [etc.]. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 35 For lacke of the saide water [they] shall be muche greeued annoyed and molested. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 645 Neither will I molest you with the recitall of all the perticulers thereof. 1580 J. Lyly Euphues & his Eng. (new ed.) f. 103 Your pardons obteined, if I offend in sharpnesse, and your patience graunted, if molest in length, I thus begin to conclude against you al, [etc.]. 1618 W. Lawson New Orchard & Garden ii. 5 If ouer-flowing molest you after one day, auoid it then by deepe trenching. a1667 A. Cowley Ess. in Verse & Prose These are the small uneasie things Which about Greatness still are found, And rather it Molest than Wound. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 72 The Colds of Winter, and the Heats of Summer, are equally incapable of molesting you. 1726 G. Leoni tr. L. B. Alberti Architecture I. 4/1 The Western..Reflections of the Sun..molest us most of all: because they double the Heat. 1760 R. Lloyd Actor in Ann. Reg. 218 Of all the evils which the Stage molest, I hate your fool who overacts his jest. 1827 D. Douglas Jrnl. 20 Apr. (1914) 249 Was molested out of my life by the men singing their boat-songs. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick ix. 48 Prudent suspicions still molest the Captain. 1974 J. Gardner Nickel Mountain vi. vi. 253 He knew that despite his principles he'd be molested from time to time by doubts. †b. transitive. Of a disease: to afflict or affect, esp. recurrently. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > affect or afflict aileOE takec1300 visitc1340 troublec1400 vex?c1425 surprise1485 vizy1488 attaintc1534 heart-burn?1537 molest1559 gar1614 possess1617 misaffect1618 corrept1657 invalid1803 1559 P. Morwyng tr. C. Gesner Treasure of Euonymus 374 And another certain person molested [L. infestatus] for iii yeares with the Ascarides,..was restored with this iuice once received. 1564 P. Moore Hope of Health ii. sig. Gvii To preserue themselfes from the daunger of any disease, that is like shortly to ensue and moleste them. 1576 A. Fleming tr. Hippocrates in Panoplie Epist. 268 If he be molested still, with that mischiefous maladie. 1600 J. Pory tr. J. Leo Africanus Geogr. Hist. Afr. viii. 299 With the French poxe I think that no other countrie vnder heauen is so molested. 1601 T. Wright Passions of Minde iv. 30 If the Passions of the Minde be not moderated according to reason..immediately the soule is molested with some maladie. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xiii. 253 Using continuall riding, they were generally molested with the Sciatica or hippegowte. View more context for this quotation 1696 Philos. Trans. 1695–7 (Royal Soc.) 19 252 He has been..generally molested with a Diarrhœa for some years past. 1770 S. Johnson Let. 1 May (1992) I. 337 A..painful Rheumatism..continues to molest me. 1802 E. Malone Let. 20 July in Percy Lett. (1944) I. 101 I have been for some time past molested with the gout. 1823 Ld. Byron Let. 12 Oct. (1981) XI. 44 I have been less molested [by headaches] since that period. 2. a. transitive. To interfere or meddle with (a person, animal, etc.) injuriously or with hostile intent; to pester or harass, esp. in an aggressive or persistent manner. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being harassed > harass [verb (transitive)] tawc893 ermec897 swencheOE besetOE bestandc1000 teenOE baitc1175 grieve?c1225 war?c1225 noyc1300 pursuec1300 travailc1300 to work (also do) annoyc1300 tribula1325 worka1325 to hold wakenc1330 chase1340 twistc1374 wrap1380 cumbera1400 harrya1400 vexc1410 encumber1413 inquiet1413 molest?a1425 course1466 persecutec1475 trouble1489 sturt1513 hare1523 hag1525 hale1530 exercise1531 to grate on or upon1532 to hold or keep waking1533 infest1533 scourge1540 molestate1543 pinch1548 trounce1551 to shake upa1556 tire1558 moila1560 pester1566 importune1578 hunt1583 moider1587 bebait1589 commacerate1596 bepester1600 ferret1600 harsell1603 hurry1611 gall1614 betoil1622 weary1633 tribulatea1637 harass1656 dun1659 overharry1665 worry1671 haul1678 to plague the life out of1746 badger1782 hatchel1800 worry1811 bedevil1823 devil1823 victimize1830 frab1848 mither1848 to pester the life out of1848 haik1855 beplague1870 chevy1872 obsede1876 to get on ——1880 to load up with1880 tail-twist1898 hassle1901 heckle1920 snooter1923 hassle1945 to breathe down (the back of) (someone's) neck1946 to bust (a person's) chops1953 noodge1960 monster1967 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > hostile action or attack > make an attack upon [verb (transitive)] > interfere with in hostile manner molest?a1425 molestate1543 mislestc1573 society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > loss of chastity > deprive of chastity [verb (transitive)] > assault sexually abuse1447 rouze1582 touse1624 tousle1839 molest1902 interfere1948 ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (Hunterian) f. 50 Ȝif he touched þe visibel spirites wiþ outen mene of þe humor cristalline, he schulde molesten him to hugelye. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. cxxi Certayne men of the Duchie of Burgoyne..gaue vnto hym to the entent he shulde nat Molest or hurte that Countre, CC. M. Floryns of golde. 1553 R. Eden tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India sig. Jvij Their chiefe studie is, in no case to moleste their neyghboures. 1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 443 Another companie of mice ioyned with these, and molested them more then before. 1659 J. Milton Treat. Civil Power 34 No protestant..ought, by the common doctrine of protestants, to be forc'd or molested for religion. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 231 in Justice Vindicated No person shall be molested for any offences abovesaid. 1694 T. Ken Morning & Evening-Hymn in New-Year's Gift 113 Let not..Powers of Darkness me molest. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi vi. vii. 69/1 In the year 1683 the House of Nicholas Desborough..was very strangely molested by Stones, by pieces of Earth, by Cobs of Indian Corn. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. 115 By the statute 1 & 2 Ph. & Mar. c. 8. to molest the possessors of abbey lands granted by parliament to Henry the eighth, and Edward the sixth, is a praemunire. 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. v. 115 If further molested, it [sc. a lizard] buries itself with great quickness in the loose sand. 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xv. ii. 20 Prussians, under strict discipline, molest no private person. 1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It xxix. 213 Fifty other ‘mines’ that had never been molested by a shovel or scratched with a pick. 1902 A. Lang Hist. Scotl. II. vii. 156 It does not seem..to follow that she intended to persecute or molest Protestants. 1927 A. Conan Doyle Case-bk. Sherlock Holmes 182 When I had sworn—as I did—that she should never be molested again, she consented to remain. 1973 E. Caldwell Annette (1974) vii. i. 151 Police records revealed that a person was more likely to be mugged or assaulted or otherwise molested in downtown Zephyrfield. b. transitive. spec. To harass, attack, or abuse sexually. ΚΠ 1889 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 18 386 It appears that the crew of an English barque..provoked the natives by molesting their women. 1938 Mississippi Valley Hist. Rev. 25 425 The post-bellum assertion that a slave during the war never molested a white woman is refuted by specific example. 1955 Court-martial Rep. (U.S.) 18 691/1 Patrick was sure it was the same man who had molested him, by his nose, his eyes, his glasses, his hair and his voice. 1972 A. Sillitoe Raw Material v. 21 She would carry a bag of pepper to throw in the face of any man who might try to molest her. 1992 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 3 Dec. a1/1 An Ontario woman awarded $284,000 in damages against the father who molested her from the time she was 5. †3. transitive. To tamper with (a thing). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > acting in another's business or intervention > intervene between [verb (transitive)] > interfere in or meddle with > tamper with molest1603 monkey1878 1603 True Narration Entertainm. His Maiestie sig. E4^v A great common (which as the people there-about complaine, sir I. Spenser of London hath very vncharitable molested). 1665 W. Killigrew Ormasdes i, in Three Playes 6 Such proffer'd gifts from Princes are not us'd To be molested, and much less refus'd. 1774 T. West Antiq. Furness (1805) 366 When it was first molested, some of the tomb stones were removed. 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