α. Middle English iplygte, Middle English iplyth, Middle English plight, Middle English pliht, Middle English ypliȝt.
β. 1500s– plighted.
单词 | plighted |
释义 | plightedadj.1α. Middle English iplygte, Middle English iplyth, Middle English plight, Middle English pliht, Middle English ypliȝt. β. 1500s– plighted. Now rare (chiefly archaic). 1. Of a thing: given in pledge or assurance; solemnly promised. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adjective] > promised or vowed behotenc1200 hotena1325 plightedc1325 fasted1440 promised1449 pledged1552 faithed1556 behighted1571 voted1586 vowed1590 sacramental1665 avowed1720 sworn1819 arrhal1873 c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 3819 Sikernesse & treuþe ypliȝt of þis voreward hii nome. 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. P.iiiv Nor greatly with theyr own hard hap dismayd, Nor plighted fayth, prone in sharp time to break. 1567 G. Turberville tr. A. Sani di Cure Aunsweres in tr. Ovid Heroycall Epist. 156v I broken haue my plighted Hest. 1629 F. Quarles Argalus & Parthenia ii. 70 Where plighted faith, and sacro-sanctius vowe Hath giuen possession, dispossesse not thou. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics i, in tr. Virgil Wks. 70 Perfidious Mars long plighted Leagues divides. View more context for this quotation 1716 J. Gay in M. W. Montagu Court Poems 21 False is the crafty Courtier's plighted word. 1794 R. Southey Wat Tyler iii. i The King must perform His plighted promise. 1826 J. F. Cooper Last of Mohicans I. xvi. 254 Monsieur, you have the plighted faith of ‘un gentil-homme Français’, for your safety. 1893 F. Thompson Poems 72 The Assisian, who kept plighted faith to three, to Song, to Sanctitude, and Poverty. 1946 G. Hopkins tr. F. Mauriac Woman of Pharisees ix. 100 The dead woman was still in his eyes a heroine who might have died for love but would never have been false to her plighted word. 2004 Washington Post (Nexis) 18 Jan. c2 The moral obligations to preserve untarnished Virginia's integrity and plighted faith. 2. Of a person: bound by a pledge; engaged; betrothed. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > agreement > promise > [adjective] > bound by promise troth-plighta1300 sworna1325 plightedc1390 assured1426 jurate1433 abjured1552 sure1567 trothed1567 obliged1600 testeda1616 ingudged1650 betrothed1651 sacramental1785 undertaking1786 oath-bound1795 committed1821 word-bound1836 tied1876 c1390 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Vernon) (1867) A. v. 116 I..was his pliht prentys. ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 1044 Þou haly bischop and preste plight. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis xii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 579 I promis'd my Lavinia for your Bride: Her from her plighted Lord by force I took. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 31 Soon as the Maid was from her Wound restor'd, Her all she yielded to her plighted Lord. 1849 D. M. Mulock Ogilvies xii Unless they were plighted lovers. 1898 T. Hardy Wessex Poems 219 He rose, and sought his plighted one. 1985 Financial Times (Nexis) 22 Oct. 25 Jackie Lye as Grusha and Michael Garner as her plighted lover Simon. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † plightedadj.2 Obsolete. Plaited, pleated, or folded. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > folding or folded condition > [adjective] > arranged in folds or pleated rideledc1400 plaited1440 rivelled1482 pleated1483 pinched1500 plighted1502 plightc1530 tucked1530 well-plighted1590 furbelowc1680 quilled1694 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) ii. v. sig. k.i Sleuys with syde lappes or plyted. 1575 W. Patten Cal. Script. 82 Complicatus: Plighted. Folden vp. 1601 J. Weever Mirror of Martyrs sig. Cvijv This all-affrighting Comet I haue heard To be the plighted tresse of Meropes. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 67 She [sc. Boadicea] wore a plighted Garment of divers colours, with a great gold'n Chain. 1693 A. Gavin Short Hist. Monastical Orders 152 A black plited cloak. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1c1325adj.21502 |
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