单词 | outcast |
释义 | outcastn.1 1. a. A person who has been cast out (of a society, institution, etc.); a person ostracized by his or her friends or social group; an exile, a homeless vagabond; a lowly or humble person. In early use frequently: a sinner, a person rejected by God. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast outcastc1390 outwalea1400 abjection1447 abject1528 overcast1574 rejectament1681 castaway1799 pariah1818 leper1825 cagot1844 Ishmaelite1848 hinin1884 expellee1888 eta1897 Ishmael1899 reject1917 c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 28 (MED) Boxum me make wiþ-oute feyning..Serwhful wiþ-outen þat luþer last, To maken of my-self out-cast. a1425 (?a1350) Gospel of Nicodemus (Galba) (1907) 746 Þou outcast [v.r. outecaste] of all men, how dar þou negh þis tempill. a1425 (c1395) Bible (Wycliffite, L.V.) (Royal) (1850) Psalms lxxxiii. 11 I chees to be an out cast [a1382 E.V. be cast awei; L. abiectus esse] in the hous of my God. a1450 in C. Brown Relig. Lyrics 15th Cent. (1939) 46 Outlawes & outcastes, the sones of synne. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. MMviv I shall than be reputed as an outcast & nothing set by. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1254/1 My Lorde mayre being set with the bishop and one of the shriues, wine was walking on euery syde, I standing before them as an outcast. 1649 Platform Church Discipline (Cambridge Synod) 3 If the example of such poor outcasts as our selves, might prevaile..it would..prevent (by the mercy of Christ) the perill of the distraction & destruction of all the churches in both kingdoms. 1734 A. Pope Epist. to Visct. Cobham 10 He dies, sad out-cast of each Church and State. 1818 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Feb. 524/2 Gypsies have actually among themselves outcasts and vagabonds. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. iii. 363 Quarters peopled by the outcasts of society. 1937 ‘G. Orwell’ Road to Wigan Pier ix. 181 My mind turned..towards..the social outcasts: tramps, beggars, criminals, prostitutes. 1991 S. Alterburn & J. Felton Toxic Faith vii. 235 When outcasts surface, they are identified as troublemakers and pushed out of the system. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > group Ruminantia (sheep, goats, cows, etc.) > genus Ovus > [noun] > Ovus Aries (domestic sheep) > flock of > inferior member of culler1538 kebber1538 outcast1671 cull1791 1671 Inventory Sir J. Anderson 27 Apr. in A. Stark Acct. of Lea with Lea Wood (1841) ii. 25 Fifty-two weathers and hogges, outcasts. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > refuse or rubbish > [noun] wrakea1350 outcastingc1350 rammel1370 rubble1376 mullockc1390 refusec1390 filtha1398 outcasta1398 chaff?a1400 rubbishc1400 wastec1430 drossc1440 raff?1440 rascal1440 murgeonc1450 wrack1472 gear1489 garblec1503 scowl1538 raffle1543 baggage1549 garbage1549 peltry1550 gubbins?1553 lastage1553 scruff1559 retraict1575 ross1577 riddings1584 ket1586 scouring1588 pelf1589 offal1598 rummage1598 dog's meat1606 retriment1615 spitling1620 recrement1622 mundungus1637 sordes1640 muskings1649 rejectament1654 offscouring1655 brat1656 relicts1687 offage1727 litter1730 rejectamenta1795 outwale1825 detritus1834 junk1836 wastements1843 croke1847–78 sculch1847 debris1851 rumble1854 flotsam1861 jetsam1861 pelt1880 offcasting1893 rubbishry1894 littering1897 muckings1898 wastage1898 dreck1905 bruck1929 crap1934 garbo1953 clobber1965 dooky1965 grot1971 tippings- a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 243v Hvlkis and offall and out cast of corne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 375 Owte caste, or refuse, or coralyce of corne cribalum. c1600 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (1790) 283 The Yeoman Garnetor hath..for his fee the ryvinges and outcast of the corne when it is cleansed. 1698 J. Gale Let. 17 Apr. in D. R. Hainsworth Corr. J. Lowther (1983) 568 These with all the outcasts of the banks, must..be brought to such owners account. 1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 309 Found..in a situation that would allow of its being an out~cast of a garden. 1842 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 3 ii. 325 A nobleman..made a large pond in the solid clay, and burnt all the outcast. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [noun] > other projecting parts jetty1422 relish1428 jutty1519 outcast1574 brow1601 saillie1664 sally1665 break1685 bowa1723 sweep1726 foreshot1839 marquee1926 podium1954 1574 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1889) IV. 157 For a chymney and ij. out castes or purprestures to his house. 1625 in I. L. Foster & L. Alcock Culture & Environment (1963) 479 A house of one bay of building and an outcast on the west side of the same. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > [noun] > missile discharged from weapon shotc893 shotec1330 projectile1654 outcast1674 project1675 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 120 The rist or spring of all that swiftness that is given to outcasts. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 129 When we give a dartingness to outcasts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). outcastn.2ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > [noun] > means of exit > specific for things emissary1601 outcast1601 vent1602 fontanelle1649 pass-port1682 vomitory1822 emissory1858 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxxi. iii. 409 On either side of such pits..certaine out-casts, tunnels, or venting holes, to receiue those hurtfull and dangerous vapours. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming out > letting or sending out > [noun] > expulsion or driving out outputtinga1387 outcastinga1398 outing1440 deboutement1481 expulsiona1513 expulsing1528 expelling1532 expulsement1537 propulsation1578 expulsure1598 ejectment1602 outcast1602 abandoning1611 unroosting1615 propulsion1626 eliminationa1631 chucking-out1881 the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > [noun] > throwing out or away out-throwingc1454 outcast1864 1602 W. Watson Decacordon Ten Quodlibeticall Questions 46 [There is] no danger at all..to the Church..by their [sc. the Jesuits'] outcast. 1864 Good Words 5 599/2 At each out-cast, it [sc. a net] opens at every mesh. 3. Scottish. A falling out, a quarrel. Cf. to cast out 6 at cast v. Phrasal verbs.Sc. National Dict. s.v. records this sense as still in use in 1964. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > quarrel or falling out > [noun] slit1390 variancec1425 quarrellingc1460 falling out1539 quarrel1566 feud1568 breach1573 rupture1583 outcast1620 outfall1647 outfallingc1650 fallout1725 split1729 break-off1860 society > society and the community > dissent > quarrel or quarrelling > [noun] > a quarrel controversy1448 tencion?1473 brulyie1531 pique1532 feudc1565 quarrel1566 jar1583 controverse1596 brack1600 outcast1620 rixation1623 controversarya1635 simultya1637 outfall1647 outfallingc1650 controversion1658 démêlé1661 embroilment1667 strut1677 risse1684 rubber1688 fray1702 brulyiement1718 fallout1725 tossa1732 embroil1742 ding-dong?1760 pilget1777 fratch1805 spar1836 splutter1838 bust-up1842 whid1847 chip1854 kass-kass1873 wap1887 run-in1894 go-round1898 blue1943 hassle1945 square-up?1949 ruck1958 1620 in A. I. Ritchie Churches St. Baldred (1880) 191 Thair was ane great outcast betwixt James Neilsone and his wyfe. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 21 Nov. in Joshua Redivivus (1671) 321 I tremble at the remembrance of a new out-cast betwixt him and me. 1758 Session Papers in Sc. National Dict. (1965) VI. (at cited word) Her Mother had an Outcast with old Peter Blair the Miller about Multures. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian x, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. IV. 217 Reuben never sleeps weel, nor I neither, when you and he hae had ony bit outcast. 1898 D. Willox Poems & Sketches 205 I could hardly believe ma ears when I heard you had haen an oot-cast. ΚΠ 1843 W. L. Tizard Theory & Pract. Brewing iii. 68 Though the additional increase in measure or outcast is not 3 per cent., the additional extract from an equal quantity brewed is 4.88 per cent. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 269/2 The increase by measure of malt over dry barley, called the ‘outcast’, is from 3 to 8 per cent. 5. Astronomy. A body of matter thrown up to or beyond the surface of a star. ΚΠ 1903 Astrophys. Jrnl. Sept. 158 (Cent. Dict. Suppl.) Miss Clarke's division of the solar outcasts into ‘several distinct envelopes’..is somewhat too definite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). outcastadj. 1. Of a person or a community: socially despised; exiled from or ostracized by society; abject, homeless, or neglected. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [adjective] > left alone outcasta1325 desolatec1386 lornc1475 destitute1530 widoweda1586 destituteda1680 marooned1883 waif-like1924 waifish1936 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [adjective] > outcast outcasta1325 refusea1413 refusedc1530 Ishmaelitish1687 a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 212 (MED) Now worþ þe prince of þis worlde out ycast. ?a1425 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. iv. pr. i. 57 The gode folk ben alwey myghty, and schrewes ben alwey outcast [v.r. owt cast; yuel; L. abiectos]. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) lxxxiii. 11 I chees to be out kast in godis hows. 1581 J. Studley tr. Seneca Agamemnon (new ed.) ii. ii, in T. Newton et al. tr. Seneca 10 Trag. f. 146 Shall I forsooth of royal bloud with al the speede I can Refuse the King of Kinges, and wed an outcast banisht man? 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xxix. sig. C2v I all alone beweepe my out-cast state. View more context for this quotation 1694 E. Settle Ambitious Slave iii. i. 27 Spend not thy prodigall Breath On a poor Outcast Wretch, not worth his Thought. 1757 J. Home Douglas ii. 26 An outcast beggar, and unpitied too! 1794 R. Southey Elinor in Poet. Wks. (1838) II. 72 Barbarous climes, Where angry England sends her outcast sons. 1828 S. R. Maitland Let. to C. Simeon 20 In this state of out-cast misery he lived for more than four years. 1860 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (ed. 2) V. 112 The highways and the villages were covered..with forlorn and outcast families, now reduced to beggary. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 23 Oct. 1/2 The bitter cry of outcast London. 1924 Chambers's Jrnl. Aug. 497/2 Dulloc..was nothing better than an outcast Kanjar. 1993 Independent on Sunday 4 Apr. (Review Suppl.) 32/1 His principal characters are unhistorical, unanchored—destitute, outcast, loner figures. 2. Of a thing; rejected or discarded; flung out. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] shedc1430 castaway?1542 outcastc1560 discarded1593 moulted1776 out-thrown1869 junked1915 c1560 R. Morice in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eminent Lit. Men (1843) 25 Emongs the outecaste papers I haue founde one fragment of a Bull of Indulgences. 1605 W. Camden Remaines Ded. sig. A3v The rude rubble and out-cast rubbish..of a greater and more serious worke. 1792 J. Barlow Conspiracy of Kings 11 Since wrecks and outcast relics still remain. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xvii. 129 To convert several outcast eatables to good palatable food. 1991 Antiquity 65 911/2 These remains constitute the outcast residue of hearths. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > [adjective] > projecting part sailing1493 jettied1585 outcasta1647 outshot1820 a1647 T. Habington Surv. Worcs. (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) (1895) I. i. 135 In the Churcheyarde... On the Southe syde above an outcast chappell. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). outcastv. transitive. To cast out, to reject, to banish. Cf. to cast out at cast v. Phrasal verbs. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] > cast out from society to cast out1297 outcasta1325 expel1534 abandon1548 a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) 109 (MED) He let out caste & do Alle þe sulleres in þe temple. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Trin. Cambr.) 18231 Out cast [a1400 Vesp. Skorning] þou art of goddes aungele. a1425 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (1987) v. 615 Here I dwelle out cast [v.r. cast out] from alle joie. 1483 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 89074) (1881) 264 To Oute caste, Abicere. c1580 Howers Bless. Virg. 100 Thou..wilt, as I think, me utterly outcast. 1612 J. Davies Muses Sacrifice 2 Then keep me in thy Wounds (my soules sole heau'n) From whence if out-cast, I to Hell must fall. a1662 P. Heylyn Cyprianus Anglicus (1668) 156 It being the custom of all those whom the Court casts out, to labour by all means they can to out-cast the Court. 1741 E. Erskine Serm. in Wks. (1871) III. 17 Their suspending, outcasting and deposing seven men from the holy ministry. 1798 W. Munford Almoran & Hamlet iv. ii. 80 Like a vile spirit Out cast from bliss. 1855 T. T. Lynch Rivulet xxiv. 32 Fill us with the love, outcasting Murmur, fearfulness, and sleep. 1886 E. Pfeiffer Etna in Sonnets 4 Fierce evils, out-cast from a depth unknown, Pour from thy open wounds by day and night. 1936 N. Wales in E. Snow Living China 336 The healthy parvenu pai-hua, ‘plain speech’, literature of the people in the spoken language, ashamed of itself and despised and outcast by the wen-yen literati. 1989 W. Horwood Duncton Found xx. 323 The eldrene, Wort, believing Ris spreading disease to be a judgement of the Word, ordered him to be outcast into the vale. 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