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单词 nighted
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nightedadj.

Brit. /ˈnʌɪtᵻd/, U.S. /ˈnaɪdᵻd/
Forms: see night v. and -ed suffix1; also 1700s 'nighted.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: night v., -ed suffix1, night n., -ed suffix2.
Etymology: In sense 1 < night v. + -ed suffix1. In other senses < night n. + -ed suffix2.
1. Overtaken by night or by darkness; enveloped in darkness. Also figurative.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > enveloped in dark of night > overtaken by night
nighted1593
benighted1810
1593 A. Chute Shore's Wife in Beawtie Dishonoured 37 So now, eternall night, now desolation, Deuining horror to the nighted land: Insues to all by sodaine alteration, That of a tyrant ill suspected stand.
1639 H. Glapthorne Trag. Albertus Wallenstein iii. iii. sig. Fi Like those fire rakes, Mis-guiding nighted travellers.
1673 H. N. Payne Fatal Jealousie iii. 36 Like Nighted Travellers we lose our way; Then every Ignis Fatuus makes us stray.
1731 S. Boyse To Same in Transl. & Poems 90 So in some desert unfrequented Wild, The 'nighted Traveller lies in Sleep beguil'd.
1765 E. Thompson Meretriciad 39 So have I seen a brilliant Star retire, And leave the nighted lover in the mire.
1819 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 88 Upon the nighted pilgrim's way.
1859 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Aeneid v, in tr. Virgil Wks. II. 67 His reeling ship,..himself e'en steered her in the nighted waves.
1894 R. Reid Poems 64 Some nichtit traveller, storm-sted.
1954 N. Marsh Spinsters in Jeopardy Prol. 13 Mr. Oberon looked across the nighted Mediterranean.
1980 W. M. Spackman Presence with Secrets i. ii. 23 Perhaps instead it was his footfall she had heard as he came looking for her through those rooms that were nighted now, and echoing.
2. Dark or black as night. Frequently figurative.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [adjective] > darkened
darked?c1425
forderked1513
darkened1565
nighted1604
bedarkened1655
endarkened1744
1604 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. ii. 68 Good Hamlet cast thy nighted [1623 nightly] colour off. View more context for this quotation
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xix. 13 [Edmund] I thinke is gone In pitie of his misery to dispatch his nighted life. View more context for this quotation
1823 T. Doubleday Ital. Wife i. iii. 17 What writhings of the mind, what hot remorse, What cold despair, what nighted destitution, Were bad enough for thee?
1850 G. H. Boker Anne Boleyn iii. ii. 79 As if in mockery of my sullen wo, To show how cheerless is my nighted soul.
1923 H. P. Lovecraft Dagon & Other Macabre Tales (1965) 192 After more aeons of descent I saw some side passages or burrows leading from unknown recesses of blackness to this shaft of nighted mystery.
1962 M. Cowry Sel. Poems 39 Our ideal life contains a tavern Where man may sit and talk or just think, All without fear of the nighted wyvern.
3. Of or belonging to the night; occurring at night. Obsolete. rare.
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the world > time > day and night > night > [adjective]
nightlyeOE
nightyc1475
nocturnal1485
noxiala1500
nightish1530
nocturn?1530
nighterly1559
owlish1596
night-tripping1598
epinyctal1600
nighted?1606
nightern1615
noctual1632
nocturnous1727
overnight1870
nitely1970
?1606 M. Drayton Man in Moone in Poemes sig. H Now the goodly moon Was in the full, and at her nighted noon.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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