单词 | orbed |
释义 | orbedadj.1 1. a. Formed into, or having the form of, an orb; circular or spherical; rounded. Now chiefly poetic. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > [adjective] crooked?c1225 roundc1300 ybentc1330 bentc1374 cambera1387 curvate?a1425 curve?a1425 curved?a1425 bowingc1440 crumped1480 bowed1483 bended1495 bowlanda1522 compass?1523 curbed?1541 compassed1551 compassing1576 curvated1598 orbed1598 curving1609 ridgill-backed1611 incurved1623 inflected1646 incurvate1647 curvous1661 incurvated1665 swayed1688 bending1697 circumflex1707 curval1730 sweeping1772 bendy1800 curvatureda1810 curvative1846 hooped1852 swept1903 the world > space > shape > curvature > curved three-dimensional shape or body > [adjective] > spherical or globular roundc1300 orbicular?1440 spherical1523 spheral1571 globous1591 globy1595 bulbed1597 orbed1598 sphery1600 spheric1610 globical1612 rotundious1614 globular1626 globed1633 global1637 globose1667 spheriform1678 globosous1681 globar1699 bulbous1783 ball-shaped1802 globate1806 perispheric1828 bulb-like1836 balloon-shaped1839 bulbiform1849 globuloid1889 1598 L. A. tr. G. Fernandez Honour of Chiualrie vi. 173 His [sc. the sun's] diarnal course about the compasse of the orbed earth. 1609 W. Shakespeare Louers Complaint in Sonnets sig. Kv Th'orbed earth. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV ccxxvii, in Poems (1878) 57 To make his Crescent Orbed in an Hower. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 543 Let each..Fit well his Helme, gripe fast his orbed Shield. View more context for this quotation 1722 W. Hamilton Life of Sir William Wallace ii. vi. ii. 120 Furious he hasts, and heaves his orbed Shield. 1857 T. Martin Aladdin i. ii. 54 The big round moon, mantled in silver clouds, Is not so bright, so witching to the view, As the full radiance of her orbèd cheeks. 1861 Press 9 889/2 An orbed mass of the electric fluid. 1909 A. C. Benson Poems 310 Your incomparable gems, Borrowed from the orbèd dew. 1989 Orange County (Calif.) Reg. (Nexis) 17 Nov. (Show section) p43 Dreager's pieces shimmer with inventiveness: ‘Golden One’, an orbed object like an acorn or a spaceship. 2011 Cambr. Evening News (Nexis) 11 Apr. The stylish, shiny black box and orbed container hint that something special is about to go on. b. figurative and in extended use. Like an orb, fully rounded; (also) bearing an orb, regal. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > completeness > [adjective] fulleOE plenara1325 perfectc1350 completec1380 heala1399 plenary?a1425 absolute1531 explete1534 well-accomplished1568 quit1583 orbeda1657 orbicular1673 saturate1682 rounded1746 broad-blown1855 plene1867 choate1878 ten tenth1948 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry IV in Poems (1878) 69 What Meteors haue crept T'abuse the world! The false fire of a Name Seems orbèd Power. a1795 S. Bishop Poet. Wks. (1796) I. 26 The obedient Beam a Sun confest, In Orbed Splendor rode. 1832 ‘B. Cornwall’ Eng. Songs cxxviii. 156 Only its airy, airy streams, And its singing stars, and its orbed dreams. 1864 J. R. Lowell Fireside Trav. 3 An orbed and balanced life. a1924 M. Ghose Coll. Poems (1970) 73 I, the apprehension And the orbèd whole, Stretched in anguished tension Of man's tortured soul. 1993 S. Howe Nonconformist's Memorial 25 Love is the orbed circle. 2. With modifying adjectives, as gold-orbed, dark-orbed, large-orbed, etc. See also full-orbed adj. at full adj., n.2, and adv. Compounds 1b, half-orbed adj. at half adv. Compounds. ΚΠ 1752 M. Browne Ess. on Universe (new ed.) iii, in Wks. & Rest of Creation 63 Jove, more remote, four large-orb'd Moons obtains. a1800 M. Robinson Poet. Wks. (1806) I. 253 So from the mournful Charlotte's dark-orb'd lids The sainted tear of pitying Virtue flows. 1844 E. B. Barrett Drama of Exile in Poems I. 71 Hid by the dark-orbed pines. 1852 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 5) 487 Where..the gold orbed orange glows. 1929 ‘H. Faust’ Half-light & Overtones 28 Like a gold-orbed fruit The sun smolders amid sulphurous leaves. 1991 M. Dorris & L. Erdrich Crown of Columbus i. 8 Like one of those patrician busts of Roman senators, the eyes large-orbed and marble. 2001 R. Mollise Choosing & using Schmidt-Cassegrain Telescope (2004) vii. 192 The striking beauty of Saturn's golden-orbed, ringed visage. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † orbedadj.2 Obsolete. rare. Bereaved. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > cause of death > bereavement by death > [adjective] orbed1616 bereaved1828 bereft1828 1616 W. Drummond Poems (new ed.) sig. P3 v Wretched Niobè I am,..Seuen Daughters..And Sonnes as many, which one fatall Day (Orb'd Mother!) tooke away. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.11598adj.21616 |
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