单词 | naufrageous |
释义 | † naufrageousadj. Obsolete. rare. That is in a state of danger or ruin (as if from shipwreck); threatened. Also: = naufragous adj. (in later use as a grandiloquent epithet). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > [adjective] > exposed to danger unsurea1400 periclitate1525 dangeredc1604 endangered1609 unsafea1616 perdua1625 insecure1655 imperilled1656 unsecure1656 naufrageous1694 perilled1819 jeopardized1864 periculant1882 at-risk1965 1694 P. A. Motteux Wks. F. Rabelais (1737) v. 232 Our State's naufrageous and periclitating. 1855 W. H. Curran Life J. P. Curran Aug. 523 Egan, in addressing a jury, having exhausted every ordinary epithet of abuse, stopped for a word, and then added, ‘this naufrageous ruffian’. When afterwards asked by his friends the meaning of the word, he confessed he did not know, but said ‘he thought it sounded well.’] 1860 Punch 21 July 29/2 I am sure the Attorney-General will not admit that what was done on the 21st of September, 1615, could have been performed, in part or in whole, by an elderly, irascible, and naufrageous gentleman, extant in the year of grace 1860. 1880 H. P. Arnold Gleanings from Pontresina iv. 57 Whence this incongruous union, suggestive only of mutual reproaches, eternal bickerings, plumbaginous and naufrageous epithets, broken crockery, charges of cold feet and a final appeal to the courts? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1694 |
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