单词 | oubliette |
释义 | oublietten. A secret dungeon with access only through a trapdoor in its ceiling. Now chiefly in extended use. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] > dungeon dungOE pitc1300 lakea1382 dungeonc1390 donjona1400 little-easea1529 thieves' hole1578 dungeon cell?1674 oubliette1777 1771 Town & Country Mag. Oct. 540/1 Cardinal Richelieu had a house at Bagneux, which has retained the name of the Oubliettes, (dungeons).] 1777 P. Thicknesse Year's Journey France & Spain II. xlv. 104 There were formerly two or three Obliettes in this castle;..but there are still several in the Bastille. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe III. xii. 306 The place was utterly dark—the oubliette, as I suppose, of their accursed convent. 1840 T. Hood Knight & Dragon in Up the Rhine 162 In the dark Oubliette Let yon Merchant forget That he e'er had a bark richly laden. 1876 Ld. Tennyson Harold ii. ii. 55 The deep-down oubliette, Down thirty feet below the smiling day—In blackness. 1917 D. H. Lawrence Look! We have come Through! 72 Out of this oubliette between the mountains five valleys go, five passes like gates. 1953 E. Wilkins & E. Kaiser tr. R. Musil Man without Qualities I. xxxvii. 164 He was not prepared for..people demanding that he should release them from intellectual oubliettes. 1996 J. Updike In Beauty of Lilies 55 This oubliette that had risen up around him with its slippery invisible walls. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † oubliettev. poetic. Obsolete. transitive. To shut up in, or as in, an oubliette. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)] beloukOE loukOE sparc1175 pena1200 bepen?c1225 pind?c1225 prison?c1225 spearc1300 stopc1315 restraina1325 aclosec1350 forbara1375 reclosea1382 ward1390 enclose1393 locka1400 reclusea1400 pinc1400 sparc1430 hamperc1440 umbecastc1440 murea1450 penda1450 mew?c1450 to shut inc1460 encharter1484 to shut up1490 bara1500 hedge1549 hema1552 impound1562 strain1566 chamber1568 to lock up1568 coop1570 incarcerate1575 cage1577 mew1581 kennel1582 coop1583 encagea1586 pound1589 imprisonc1595 encloister1596 button1598 immure1598 seclude1598 uplock1600 stow1602 confine1603 jail1604 hearse1608 bail1609 hasp1620 cub1621 secure1621 incarcera1653 fasten1658 to keep up1673 nun1753 mope1765 quarantine1804 peg1824 penfold1851 encoop1867 oubliette1884 jigger1887 corral1890 maroon1904 to bang up1950 to lock down1971 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket iv. ii. 156 Could you keep her Indungeon'd from one whisper of the wind, Dark even from a side glance of the moon, And oublietted in the centre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1777v.1884 |
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