单词 | battled |
释义 | battledadj.1 1. Ranged in battle-array; disposed in battalions. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > formation > [adjective] > formed or forming in battle array embattled1475 battled1592 embodied1667 embattling1796 1592 W. Wyrley Lord Chandos in True Vse Armorie 46 He sommoned braue Dukes, stout Earles and Lordes In batteled armes before him to appeere. 1841 J. W. Orderson Creoleana xviii. 213 She could not..stay the ‘battled pestilence.’ 2. poetic. Fought, contested. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [adjective] > contested well-fought1523 well-foughten1525 battled1810 wagered1876 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake i. 38 Soldier, rest! thy warfare o'er..Dream of battled fields no more. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2019). battledadj.2 Obsolete exc. poetic. 1. Fortified with battlements; embattled. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defence > defensive work(s) > defensive walls > [adjective] > battlemented battledc1400 embattledc1400 trochedc1400 battlemented1603 c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1183 For þe borȝ watz so bygge baytayled alofte. c1400 Rom. Rose 4162 Lest ony tyme it were assayled, Ful wel aboute it was batayled. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xiii. xlviii. 244 Built like a batled wall. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake v. 235 The castle's battled verge. 1832 Ld. Tennyson Dream Fair Women lxii, in Poems (new ed.) 137 The valleys of grapeloaded vines that glow Beneath the battled tower. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > condition or fact of receding > condition or action of indentation of edge > [adjective] battledc1386 embattledc1386 indentedc1440 incoled1543 gapped1562 crenated1688 vandyked1832 indentured1885 c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale 40 His comb was redder than the fyn coral, And batayld, as it were a castel wal. 1405 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 318 Unum gobellum..cum operculo batellato. ?1422 in J. Raine Testamenta Eboracensia (1836) I. 404 j. murreus..cum ligacione batilde.] This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). † battledadj.3 Obsolete. Of animals: Nourished, fed up, fattened. Of pasture, land; Fertilized, manured. (Commonly well-battled.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > feeding animals > [adjective] > fed > fattened franked1466 masteda1500 frank-fed?1545 battled1600 battened1791 long-fed1901 the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > manured or fertilized dungedOE marledc1265 mucked1290 chavedc1420 dungyc1450 manured1551 fatted1552 folded1579 chalked1598 battled1600 seasoned1604 limed1707 sanded1707 fattened1725 sooted1776 wared1795 littery1805 plastered1819 nitred1822 gypsumed1841 nitrated1841 sewaged1861 sewage-irrigated1867 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 276 Well manured and battled ground. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. lviii. 395 In a free and well battild [1616 battilled] ground. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Vne fille bien advenuë, well proeued, well growne..well batned, or batled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < adj.11592adj.2c1386adj.31600 |
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