单词 | mutilated |
释义 | mutilatedadj. 1. Of (a part of) a person or animal: that has been mutilated; damaged by mutilation; (rare) †castrated (obsolete). Also figurative. Cf. mutilate adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] maimed1340 remuled1481 mutilate1525 dismembered1552 trunked1552 martyred1567 bodiless1587 limbless1594 mutilated1598 memberless1611 maim1653 concised1660 dislimbed1662 truncated1731 obtruncate1805 lop-limbed1809 decurtate1859 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. *iv Wounded & mutilatede persons. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia ii. 141 In one place lay Heads deposed from their soveraignties, yawning and staring as if they looked for their Bodies; In another heaps of mutilated Arms, Hands, and Legs. 1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. III. 36 Such mutilated persons as have voluntarily and deliberately deprived themselves of their virility. 1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 106 The most splendid palace in the world, which they left..strewed with..mutilated carcases. View more context for this quotation 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. lvii. 89 The lively, supple Greek; And swarthy Nubia's mutilated son. 1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps ii. xvii. 315 Mutilated statuary. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 67 Some..portion of the mutilated organ or limb should be left in situ. 1922 L. Stoddard Revolt against Civilization iv. 129 It is a mutilated, deformed, moron humanity which glowers or drivels at us through expressionist pictures. 1958 P. Gibbs Curtains of Yesterday 38 If she walked up Sloane Street she would meet another of these groups of mutilated men. 1990 Animals' Agenda Mar. 44/2 Rangers have found dead, mutilated spotted owls. 2. Of a thing (material or immaterial): having some part cut out, destroyed, or severely curtailed; deprived of some part essential to completeness. Cf. mutilate adj. 1. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty > incomplete mutilatea1522 castrated1609 mutilated1628 mutilous1649 1628 R. Le Grys tr. J. Barclay Argenis ii. 93 Thou mayest yet see the Cities, as it were mutilated, the roofes and pinacles of the Temples being broken downe. 1684 tr. S. Blankaart Physical Dict. 204 Myurus is a mutilated Pulse, increasing or decreasing gradually. 1766 O. Goldsmith Vicar of Wakefield I. i. 4 His lady [would] return my wife's civilities at church with a mutilated curtsey. 1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xl. 264 Harley's own story, from the mutilated passages I have mentioned..I found to have been simple to excess. 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 774 Folly such as your's..Has made..Our arch of empire..A mutilated structure, soon to fall. 1862 J. H. Burton Book-hunter (1863) 43 A call by a public library to replace a mutilated book with a new copy. 1875 C. Darwin Insectivorous Plants xiii. 319 This mutilated leaf..re-expanded in two days. 1906 Westm. Gaz. 19 Mar. 3/1 To attempt to flashlight him at night is an invitation..to trample the photographer and his camera into a jumble of mutilated fragments. 1990 M. Rowe So Very English (BNC) 243 A badly mutilated and heavily censored version of some third-rate continental film. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > celestial sphere > zone of celestial sphere > [adjective] > degree azimene1647 mutilated1696 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Mutilated, otherwise called Azimene Degrees, are certain degrees in several Signs, that threaten the Native that has them Ascending, with Lameness [etc.]. 4. ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Corniche Mutilated Cornice, is that whose Projecture is cut or interrupted, to the right of the Larmier, or reduced into a Platband with a Cimaise. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Corniche Mutilated Roof. Sometimes it is cut, or mutilated, that is, consists of a true and a false roof which is laid over the former: this last is particularly called a mansard. 1802 C. James New Mil. Dict. (at cited word) A battalion is said to be mutilated, when its divisions, &c., stand unequal. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > taxonomy > taxon > [adjective] > species or sub-species > deficient in part mutilate1760 mutilated1793 muticate1842 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M5v Mutilatus s. Mutilus flos, a mutilated flower. Not producing a corolla, when it ought regularly to do it. c. Of a cogwheel: lacking teeth round part of its circumference. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1504/1 Mutilated Wheel, a wheel, from a part of the perimeter of which the cogs are removed. 1971 Sci. Amer. Feb. 107 (caption) Conversion of rotary motion into reciprocating motion is achieved by the use of a pair of ‘mutilated’ (only partly toothed) gears on a single crankshaft. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598 |
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