单词 | owned |
释义 | ownedadj. 1. Held as one's own property; possessed.Rare before the 19th cent., and now usually as the second element in compounds. For more established compounds see the first element. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > owning > [adjective] > owned ownedOE own own1829 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 15 Sume [naman] synd possessiva, þæt synd geagnigendlice, þa geswuteliað þa þing, þe beoð geagnode. 1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 407 Seated in his owned, and earned Throne. 1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 308 British-owned..vessels. 1863 All Year Round 18 July 488/1 Owned horses take cold, throw out splints or curbs. 1899 Daily News 24 Nov. 3/2 Occupying an employer-owned cottage, with no other available house in case the tenant for any offence loses work and home. 1937 Life 16 Aug. 34/3 (caption) The city-owned Skyport charges $1 up per landing. 1984 Which? Jan. 17/1 Dutch-owned firm selling medium-priced machines which are widely available. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > acknowledgement, avowal, or confession > [adjective] > acknowledged, avowed, or confessed ownedeOE openOE avowed1340 confessed1561 avouched1637 granted1640 declared1651 eOE King Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care (Hatton) (1871) xxxvii. 263 Ne underfengon ge no ðone Gast æt ðæm fulluhte to ðeowigeanne for ege, ac ge hine underfengon to ðæm ðæt ge Gode geagenudu bearn beon scielen. 1649 J. Owen Serm. preached to House of Commons 93 For those that stand at a greater distance from the publickly owned and declared truths,..the orderly way of dealing with such, is in the first place to bring them off from the error of the way. 1674 N. Fairfax Treat. Bulk & Selvedge 178 A more owned truth than that which this is brought to strengthen. 1692 James II Instr. Son in C. Petrie Jacobite Movement (1932) App. v. 296 The late King my Brother..had children by all his owned Mistresses and none by the Queen. 1706 T. Forrester Rev. & Consideration Two Late Pamphlets ix. 194 The generally owned Principle of all the Bishops in his time. 1827 R. Southey Select. from Lett. (1856) IV. 49 Theirs is an owned language. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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