nervedadj.

Brit.

/nəːvd/, U.S.

/nərvd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nerve n., -ed suffix².

Etymology: < nerve n. + -ed suffix². With use in heraldry (see sense 3b) compare French nervé (1681 in this sense). Compare earlier unnerved adj.

†a. Courageous; vigorous. Also figurative. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > courage > [adjective]

courageous1297

heartya1375

leoninec1386

heartlya1450

well-stomached1478

couraged?1529

noble couraged1561

heartsome1567

Roman1577

generous1596

nerved1615

noble-spiriteda1617

noble-hearted1684

courageable1689

lion-hearted1708

1615 R. A. Valiant Welshman iii. i. sig. E The name of King Were able to create a man of stone, With more then animall courage, to inspire Dulnesse, with nerued resolution.

1635 T. May Victorious Reigne Edward III iv. sig. H3 The men at armes, and nerved Archers come.

1779 H. Cowley Albina iv. 55 Was e'er the nerved arm Of Youth triumphant on the side of falsehood?

1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 196 His left arm straightens as the dexter bends, And his nerved knuckle with the gripe distends.

b. figurative (poetic and literary). In predicative use. With with: having nerves of iron, steel, etc., and so exceptionally strong, vigorous, or courageous. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. v. 66 The difference between this Man, nerv'd with Wire, and others, that were clean-Limb'd, and streight slender-Bodyed.

1680 Protestants Vade Mecum xxiv. 96 Hard as Adamant, and nerv'd with steel.

1811 Port Folio June 542 In the horrid walks of war, Where valour's heart is nerved with steel.

1846 Graham's Mag. Feb. 76/2 He..braved the storm as though nerved with iron.

1956 Poetry Aug. 323 She is life-toughened, nerved with steel.

2. As the second element in adjectival compounds, with the sense: having nerves of a specified kind, as full-nerved, strong-nerved, weak-nerved, etc.

ΚΠ

a1628 F. Greville Trag. Cicero (1651) sig. B3^v/1 With strong-nerv'd eys, Like a young Eagle, he confronts our Sun.

1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 168 Our antient sturdy barons..whose race is now so thoroughly refin'd and fritter'd away into the more delicate modern-built frame of our pap-nerv'd softlings.

1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 2 A man of a long-sighted and a strong-nerved humanity.

1802 Sketch Paris II. lx. 293 These weak-nerved females, who would have fainted at the sight of a spider mangling a fly.

1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 4 Even men called brave and steady-nerved waited for company to make the journey.

1932 New Yorker 14 May 22/1 The bankers who were setting up the biggest financial pyramids of yesterday are replaced by other steel-nerved bankers today.

1995 New Yorker 30 Jan. 75/2 Historically, this trembling-nerved, loud and heroic Winchell is invisible.

a. Botany. Of a leaf or analogous plant part: having nerves or veins; spec. having parallel venation. Also (with distinguishing word and in compounds): having nerves of a specified character or number.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having or not having veins

venose?a1425

venous1626

nervous1668

veiny1681

nervose1753

nerveless1783

veinless1783

nerved1793

nervated1802

trinerved1811

trinervate1813

venulose1821

penninerved1849

penniveined1855

parallelinervate1857

parallelivenous1857

penninervate1857

net-veined1860

basinerved1866

nervate1866

obtectovenose1866

palm-veined1866

parallelinerved1866

parallelivenose1866

parallelinervous1893

pinninervate1893

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M7 A Nerved leaf... Having vessels perfectly simple and unbranched.

1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. U4 A three-nerved leaf.

1800 T. Hardwicke in Asiatick Researches 6 348 Leaves..entire, one nerved, smooth, veinless.

1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 88 If other veins similar to the midrib pass from the base to the apex of a leaf, such veins have been called nerves; and a leaf with such an arrangement of its veins has been called a nerved leaf.

1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 226 The leaf..minutely crenated five-nerved.

1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's New Man. Bot. (ed. 7) 77 P. rutilus... Stipules 1–2cm. long, acuminate, scarious and strongly nerved.

1943 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 30 97 Leaves pinnate,..many-nerved.

1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses 159 Poa palustris may be distinguished..from P. trivalis by its..obscurely nerved bronze-tipped lemmas.

1998 Austral. Systematic Bot. 11 19 Eriostemon banksii... Leaves thinly coriaceous, 5-nerved, ovate to elliptic.

b. Heraldry. Of a leaf: having the veins detailed in a different colour from their background.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [adjective] > having parts of specific tincture

barbed1610

bladed1610

seeded1610

trunked1678

wisalled1688

banded1787

nerved?1828

stalked1864

?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Eee3/2 Nerved..is said of leaves and plants, the fibres of which are borne of a different tincture.

1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vi. 98 Nerved, leaves are thus described when the Nerves..are of a different tincture to the Leaf itself.

1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 202/2 If some other colour is required the leaf is described as ‘nerved’ of colour.

†4. That feels or is capable of feeling. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

a1851 J. Baillie Wks. (1851) 463 To show that I am made as other men, Of flesh and blood as soft and sensitive, When with no charm secured, thrust it, I pray thee, Into this nerved flesh.

5. figurative. Chiefly U.S. Nervous, agitated, excited; ‘psyched up’. Now with up.

ΚΠ

1934 R. Chandler Finger Man in Black Mask Oct. 18/2 I kept an eye on her all the same. She looked like a lady who was getting nerved for something.

1947 A. Miller All my Sons ii. 39 Sue: You must be all nerved up. Ann: It's always a problem getting yourself married, isn't it?

1986 M. Howard Expensive Habits 113 She has been nerved up since the day his first wife collapsed at his feet.

1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter i. xii. 102 Bonnie, aglow with her boyfriend's attention,..basking too in the nerved-up company of the several black boys.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	nerved
释义	nervedadj. Brit. /nəːvd/, U.S. /nərvd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: nerve n., -ed suffix². Etymology: < nerve n. + -ed suffix². With use in heraldry (see sense 3b) compare French nervé (1681 in this sense). Compare earlier unnerved adj. 1. †a. Courageous; vigorous. Also figurative. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > [adjective] courageous1297 heartya1375 leoninec1386 heartlya1450 well-stomached1478 couraged?1529 noble couraged1561 heartsome1567 Roman1577 generous1596 nerved1615 noble-spiriteda1617 noble-hearted1684 courageable1689 lion-hearted1708 1615 R. A. Valiant Welshman iii. i. sig. E The name of King Were able to create a man of stone, With more then animall courage, to inspire Dulnesse, with nerued resolution. 1635 T. May Victorious Reigne Edward III iv. sig. H3 The men at armes, and nerved Archers come. 1779 H. Cowley Albina iv. 55 Was e'er the nerved arm Of Youth triumphant on the side of falsehood? 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad v. 196 His left arm straightens as the dexter bends, And his nerved knuckle with the gripe distends. b. figurative (poetic and literary). In predicative use. With with: having nerves of iron, steel, etc., and so exceptionally strong, vigorous, or courageous. Now rare. ΚΠ 1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue III. v. 66 The difference between this Man, nerv'd with Wire, and others, that were clean-Limb'd, and streight slender-Bodyed. 1680 Protestants Vade Mecum xxiv. 96 Hard as Adamant, and nerv'd with steel. 1811 Port Folio June 542 In the horrid walks of war, Where valour's heart is nerved with steel. 1846 Graham's Mag. Feb. 76/2 He..braved the storm as though nerved with iron. 1956 Poetry Aug. 323 She is life-toughened, nerved with steel. 2. As the second element in adjectival compounds, with the sense: having nerves of a specified kind, as full-nerved, strong-nerved, weak-nerved, etc. ΚΠ a1628 F. Greville Trag. Cicero (1651) sig. B3^v/1 With strong-nerv'd eys, Like a young Eagle, he confronts our Sun. 1749 J. Cleland Mem. Woman of Pleasure I. 168 Our antient sturdy barons..whose race is now so thoroughly refin'd and fritter'd away into the more delicate modern-built frame of our pap-nerv'd softlings. 1780 E. Burke Speech Oeconomical Reformation 2 A man of a long-sighted and a strong-nerved humanity. 1802 Sketch Paris II. lx. 293 These weak-nerved females, who would have fainted at the sight of a spider mangling a fly. 1865 E. Burritt Walk to Land's End 4 Even men called brave and steady-nerved waited for company to make the journey. 1932 New Yorker 14 May 22/1 The bankers who were setting up the biggest financial pyramids of yesterday are replaced by other steel-nerved bankers today. 1995 New Yorker 30 Jan. 75/2 Historically, this trembling-nerved, loud and heroic Winchell is invisible. 3. a. Botany. Of a leaf or analogous plant part: having nerves or veins; spec. having parallel venation. Also (with distinguishing word and in compounds): having nerves of a specified character or number. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > part of plant > leaf > [adjective] > having or not having veins venose?a1425 venous1626 nervous1668 veiny1681 nervose1753 nerveless1783 veinless1783 nerved1793 nervated1802 trinerved1811 trinervate1813 venulose1821 penninerved1849 penniveined1855 parallelinervate1857 parallelivenous1857 penninervate1857 net-veined1860 basinerved1866 nervate1866 obtectovenose1866 palm-veined1866 parallelinerved1866 parallelivenose1866 parallelinervous1893 pinninervate1893 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. M7 A Nerved leaf... Having vessels perfectly simple and unbranched. 1793 T. Martyn Lang. Bot. sig. U4 A three-nerved leaf. 1800 T. Hardwicke in Asiatick Researches 6 348 Leaves..entire, one nerved, smooth, veinless. 1832 J. Lindley Introd. Bot. i. ii. 88 If other veins similar to the midrib pass from the base to the apex of a leaf, such veins have been called nerves; and a leaf with such an arrangement of its veins has been called a nerved leaf. 1874 A. B. Garrod & E. B. Baxter Essentials Materia Medica (ed. 4) 226 The leaf..minutely crenated five-nerved. 1908 B. L. Robinson & M. L. Fernald Gray's New Man. Bot. (ed. 7) 77 P. rutilus... Stipules 1–2cm. long, acuminate, scarious and strongly nerved. 1943 Ann. Missouri Bot. Garden 30 97 Leaves pinnate,..many-nerved. 1954 C. E. Hubbard Grasses 159 Poa palustris may be distinguished..from P. trivalis by its..obscurely nerved bronze-tipped lemmas. 1998 Austral. Systematic Bot. 11 19 Eriostemon banksii... Leaves thinly coriaceous, 5-nerved, ovate to elliptic. b. Heraldry. Of a leaf: having the veins detailed in a different colour from their background. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > representations of vegetation > [adjective] > having parts of specific tincture barbed1610 bladed1610 seeded1610 trunked1678 wisalled1688 banded1787 nerved?1828 stalked1864 ?1828 W. Berry Encycl. Heraldica I. sig. Eee3/2 Nerved..is said of leaves and plants, the fibres of which are borne of a different tincture. 1869 J. E. Cussans Handbk. Heraldry (rev. ed.) vi. 98 Nerved, leaves are thus described when the Nerves..are of a different tincture to the Leaf itself. 1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 202/2 If some other colour is required the leaf is described as ‘nerved’ of colour. †4. That feels or is capable of feeling. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1851 J. Baillie Wks. (1851) 463 To show that I am made as other men, Of flesh and blood as soft and sensitive, When with no charm secured, thrust it, I pray thee, Into this nerved flesh. 5. figurative. Chiefly U.S. Nervous, agitated, excited; ‘psyched up’. Now with up. ΚΠ 1934 R. Chandler Finger Man in Black Mask Oct. 18/2 I kept an eye on her all the same. She looked like a lady who was getting nerved for something. 1947 A. Miller All my Sons ii. 39 Sue: You must be all nerved up. Ann: It's always a problem getting yourself married, isn't it? 1986 M. Howard Expensive Habits 113 She has been nerved up since the day his first wife collapsed at his feet. 1990 J. C. Oates Because it is Bitter i. xii. 102 Bonnie, aglow with her boyfriend's attention,..basking too in the nerved-up company of the several black boys. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1615
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