beauteousadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈbjuːtɪəs/, U.S.

/ˈbjudiəs/

Forms:

α. late Middle English beautevous, late Middle English beuteuousse, late Middle English bevtevous, late Middle English bewteuus, late Middle English bewtevous, late Middle English–1500s beauteuous, late Middle English–1500s bewteuous, late Middle English–1600s beautuous.

β. late Middle English beuteowse, late Middle English bewteose, late Middle English (in a late copy) bewtyose, late Middle English bewtyouws, late Middle English boyteous, late Middle English–1500s beuteus, late Middle English–1600s bewteous, 1500s beautyouse, 1500s beautyus, 1500s beutiouse, 1500s bewteouse, 1500s bewtyouse, 1500s–1600s beuteous, 1500s–1600s beutyous, 1500s–1600s bewtious, 1500s–1600s bewtyous, 1500s–1700s beautious, 1500s– beauteous, 1600s beawtious, 1600s beutious.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: beauty n., -ous suffix.

Etymology: < beauty n. (compare forms at that entry) + -ous suffix, probably after e.g. plenteous adj., bounteous adj.The connotations found in some recent use (see sense A. 1) are perhaps influenced by association with e.g. luscious adj., sensuous adj., voluptuous adj. T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1780) gives the pronunciation as /ˈbjuːtʃəs/. J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. (1791), criticizes Sheridan's rendering and gives /ˈbjuːtʃɪəs/. Earlier evidence for one or other pronunciation is provided by T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (1766) III. (at T): ‘It is said by some, that T sounds like ch before eous, ous, uous; as in beauteous, portentous, tortuous; but this seems a vicious pronunciation.’

Chiefly literary and poetic.

A. adj.

1. Highly pleasing to the senses, esp. the sight; beautiful; (also, in recent use) sensuously alluring, voluptuous. Chiefly literary.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective]

smickerc725

faireOE

lieflyOE

sheenOE

wenlichc1000

wlitic1000

lovesomec1175

lustya1240

flourisheda1375

lovelya1400

weenc1400

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beautifulc1443

finec1450

pulchriousa1500

speciousa1513

shanda1525

speciosea1525

pulchrousc1540

bonny1580

beauty1598

lovelike1621

killing1634

florid1642

beautied1830

stunning1849

fairsome1862

pulchritudinous1877

beaut1894

loverly1907

[implied in: R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 79 (MED) My flesch is made leyne and fowle emonge bewteuus [L. uenustos] of þis lyfe.].

a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 8 (MED) Owyr mercyful Lord Crist Ihesu..aperyd to hys creatur..in lyknesse of a man, most semly, most bewtyuows.

1480 Higden's Discripcion Brit. (Caxton) iii Englond is beauteuous..flour of londes all aboute.

?1530 W. Neville Castell of Pleasure (new ed.) sig. B.vi I haue attempted a thyng ryght Ieopardous To attayne the presence of my lady moste beautyus.

1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 27 His eies were lumynous, Chrystallyne and beauteous.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 85 A wife With wealth enough, and yong and beautious .

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 697 Each beauteous flour.

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 144. ⁋1 There is something irresistible in a beauteous Form.

1763 C. Smart Song to David 20 Beauteous the multitudes in mail, Rank'd arms and crested heads.

1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 123 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free.

1855 R. Browning In a Balcony in Men & Women II. 103 The dearest, richest, beauteousest and best Of women.

1900 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 May 5/1 (heading) Among the flowers and foliage plants will be many sparkling fountains to enliven the beauteous scene.

1958 J. Kerouac Dharma Bums 140 Golden days with beauteous moon at night, warm, one emboldened frog picking up a croak song.

1989 Washington Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. e1 Beauteous Kate (Isabella Hoffman) is the siren-next-door, a voluptuous redhead whose singleness is hard to fathom.

2000 R. Topping Kevin & Perry go Large i. 6 Then..emerged The Supermodel—whose beauteous bikinied form had looked down at him from a poster on the wall.

2. Highly attractive or admirable in character; spiritually, morally, or intellectually excellent. Cf. beautiful adj. 2.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > specifically of intellect or morals

shiningc900

beauteousa1450

a1450 (c1400–25) H. Legat Serm. Passion in D. M. Grisdale 3 Middle Eng. Serm. (1939) 11 (MED) Al þus passiuns..had Crist for þe loue of..þat bewtuvus creature, mannis soule.

c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 311 (MED) The dove also..In hert bothe meke and beauteuous, Vnto the erthe she toke her flyte.

?1526 J. Fisher Serm. at Paulis iii. sig. f.ii The lyght of true faith, whiche..moche doth honeste and make beautious the harte of a christen man.

1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie in Fowre Hymnes 18 Nathelesse the soule is faire and beauteous still.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. i. sig. F3^v This heate of his may turn into a zeale, And stand vp for the beauteous discipline, Against the menstruous cloth, and ragg of Rome.

1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 204 The most Non-pareille Beauty of the World, Beauteous Knowledge.

1718 G. Jacob Court Beauties 12 A groop of Charms in Bellandine we find, A beauteous Form, but a more beauteous Mind.

1767 F. Sydenham tr. Plato Banquet: 2nd Pt. 207 A Person of a beauteous Soul and generous Nature.

1814 Meteor Apr. 409 The beauteous ideas, the grand and elevated thoughts I have conceived in my mind.

1885 V. Frantz Ina Greenwood iv. 451 We love to contemplate his beauteous mind, His towering intellect, his strength of thought.

1914 G. H. Young Illustr. Teachings of Jesus ii. iii. 217 To accept the fact of His beauteous character must also require the acceptance of the forces that went into the making of it.

1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 Apr. 34/4 The beauteous nature of the Princess who, against the odds, was still behaving with remarkable restraint.

B. n.

With plural agreement. Chiefly with the. Beauteous people or things as a class.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person

fairnesseOE

roseOE

beautya1425

beauteous1435

lovelyc1450

beautifulness?1574

picturea1645

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speciosity1660

vision1823

dream1837

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firecracker1852

beaut1896

R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 79 (MED) My flesch is made leyne and fowle emonge bewteuus [L. uenustos] of þis lyfe.

1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. C4^v It shall become thy Nell, Bounteous to be vnto the beauteous.

1672 Westm.-drollery: 2nd. Pt. 71 The Beauteous are not faire, Whose coyness breeds despaire.

1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 217. ⁋11 If..the Beauteous could but rage a little before a Glass, and see their pretty Countenances grow wild.

1752 London Mag. Apr. 187/2 The good, the beauteous, and the wise must mourn.

1820 J. A. Heraud Legend St. Loy 4 My Soul delights in every sylvan spot, Where she may find the Beauteous and the Grand.

1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 101 Down to the dreary caverns of the grave Pass'd,..Unmark'd, unmourn'd the beauteous and the brave.

1851 E. A. Bowring tr. F. Schiller Poems 244 Even the Beauteous must die!

1990 D. Ashton Crit. Stud. P. Guston (new ed.) x. 146 His straining toward the reconciliation of the beauteous and the monstrous.

1998 Guardian 11 July 4 This transmedia blitz of the beauteous and the bimboid gives clubbing an unreconstructed image.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	beauteous
释义	beauteousadj.n. Brit. /ˈbjuːtɪəs/, U.S. /ˈbjudiəs/ Forms: α. late Middle English beautevous, late Middle English beuteuousse, late Middle English bevtevous, late Middle English bewteuus, late Middle English bewtevous, late Middle English–1500s beauteuous, late Middle English–1500s bewteuous, late Middle English–1600s beautuous. β. late Middle English beuteowse, late Middle English bewteose, late Middle English (in a late copy) bewtyose, late Middle English bewtyouws, late Middle English boyteous, late Middle English–1500s beuteus, late Middle English–1600s bewteous, 1500s beautyouse, 1500s beautyus, 1500s beutiouse, 1500s bewteouse, 1500s bewtyouse, 1500s–1600s beuteous, 1500s–1600s beutyous, 1500s–1600s bewtious, 1500s–1600s bewtyous, 1500s–1700s beautious, 1500s– beauteous, 1600s beawtious, 1600s beutious. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: beauty n., -ous suffix. Etymology: < beauty n. (compare forms at that entry) + -ous suffix, probably after e.g. plenteous adj., bounteous adj.The connotations found in some recent use (see sense A. 1) are perhaps influenced by association with e.g. luscious adj., sensuous adj., voluptuous adj. T. Sheridan Gen. Dict. Eng. Lang. (1780) gives the pronunciation as /ˈbjuːtʃəs/. J. Walker Crit. Pronouncing Dict. (1791), criticizes Sheridan's rendering and gives /ˈbjuːtʃɪəs/. Earlier evidence for one or other pronunciation is provided by T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. (1766) III. (at T): ‘It is said by some, that T sounds like ch before eous, ous, uous; as in beauteous, portentous, tortuous; but this seems a vicious pronunciation.’ Chiefly literary and poetic. A. adj. 1. Highly pleasing to the senses, esp. the sight; beautiful; (also, in recent use) sensuously alluring, voluptuous. Chiefly literary. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [adjective] smickerc725 faireOE lieflyOE sheenOE wenlichc1000 wlitic1000 lovesomec1175 lustya1240 flourisheda1375 lovelya1400 weenc1400 beauteous1435 beautifulc1443 finec1450 pulchriousa1500 speciousa1513 shanda1525 speciosea1525 pulchrousc1540 bonny1580 beauty1598 lovelike1621 killing1634 florid1642 beautied1830 stunning1849 fairsome1862 pulchritudinous1877 beaut1894 loverly1907 [implied in: R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 79 (MED) My flesch is made leyne and fowle emonge bewteuus [L. uenustos] of þis lyfe.]. a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe (1940) i. 8 (MED) Owyr mercyful Lord Crist Ihesu..aperyd to hys creatur..in lyknesse of a man, most semly, most bewtyuows. 1480 Higden's Discripcion Brit. (Caxton) iii Englond is beauteuous..flour of londes all aboute. ?1530 W. Neville Castell of Pleasure (new ed.) sig. B.vi I haue attempted a thyng ryght Ieopardous To attayne the presence of my lady moste beautyus. 1590 Cobler of Caunterburie 27 His eies were lumynous, Chrystallyne and beauteous. a1616 W. Shakespeare Taming of Shrew (1623) i. ii. 85 A wife With wealth enough, and yong and beautious . View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iv. 697 Each beauteous flour. View more context for this quotation 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 144. ⁋1 There is something irresistible in a beauteous Form. 1763 C. Smart Song to David 20 Beauteous the multitudes in mail, Rank'd arms and crested heads. 1807 W. Wordsworth Poems I. 123 It is a beauteous evening, calm and free. 1855 R. Browning In a Balcony in Men & Women II. 103 The dearest, richest, beauteousest and best Of women. 1900 Post-Standard (Syracuse, N.Y.) 7 May 5/1 (heading) Among the flowers and foliage plants will be many sparkling fountains to enliven the beauteous scene. 1958 J. Kerouac Dharma Bums 140 Golden days with beauteous moon at night, warm, one emboldened frog picking up a croak song. 1989 Washington Times (Nexis) 7 Sept. e1 Beauteous Kate (Isabella Hoffman) is the siren-next-door, a voluptuous redhead whose singleness is hard to fathom. 2000 R. Topping Kevin & Perry go Large i. 6 Then..emerged The Supermodel—whose beauteous bikinied form had looked down at him from a poster on the wall. 2. Highly attractive or admirable in character; spiritually, morally, or intellectually excellent. Cf. beautiful adj. 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > quality of being good > excellence > [adjective] > specifically of intellect or morals shiningc900 beauteousa1450 a1450 (c1400–25) H. Legat Serm. Passion in D. M. Grisdale 3 Middle Eng. Serm. (1939) 11 (MED) Al þus passiuns..had Crist for þe loue of..þat bewtuvus creature, mannis soule. c1475 in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1913) 130 311 (MED) The dove also..In hert bothe meke and beauteuous, Vnto the erthe she toke her flyte. ?1526 J. Fisher Serm. at Paulis iii. sig. f.ii The lyght of true faith, whiche..moche doth honeste and make beautious the harte of a christen man. 1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie in Fowre Hymnes 18 Nathelesse the soule is faire and beauteous still. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist iii. i. sig. F3^v This heate of his may turn into a zeale, And stand vp for the beauteous discipline, Against the menstruous cloth, and ragg of Rome. View more context for this quotation 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 204 The most Non-pareille Beauty of the World, Beauteous Knowledge. 1718 G. Jacob Court Beauties 12 A groop of Charms in Bellandine we find, A beauteous Form, but a more beauteous Mind. 1767 F. Sydenham tr. Plato Banquet: 2nd Pt. 207 A Person of a beauteous Soul and generous Nature. 1814 Meteor Apr. 409 The beauteous ideas, the grand and elevated thoughts I have conceived in my mind. 1885 V. Frantz Ina Greenwood iv. 451 We love to contemplate his beauteous mind, His towering intellect, his strength of thought. 1914 G. H. Young Illustr. Teachings of Jesus ii. iii. 217 To accept the fact of His beauteous character must also require the acceptance of the forces that went into the making of it. 1990 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 25 Apr. 34/4 The beauteous nature of the Princess who, against the odds, was still behaving with remarkable restraint. B. n. With plural agreement. Chiefly with the. Beauteous people or things as a class. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > beauty > [noun] > beautiful thing or person fairnesseOE roseOE beautya1425 beauteous1435 lovelyc1450 beautifulness?1574 picturea1645 formosity1652 speciosity1660 vision1823 dream1837 jewel box1846 firecracker1852 beaut1896 R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 79 (MED) My flesch is made leyne and fowle emonge bewteuus [L. uenustos] of þis lyfe. 1593 G. Peele Famous Chron. King Edward the First sig. C4^v It shall become thy Nell, Bounteous to be vnto the beauteous. 1672 Westm.-drollery: 2nd. Pt. 71 The Beauteous are not faire, Whose coyness breeds despaire. 1710 R. Steele Tatler No. 217. ⁋11 If..the Beauteous could but rage a little before a Glass, and see their pretty Countenances grow wild. 1752 London Mag. Apr. 187/2 The good, the beauteous, and the wise must mourn. 1820 J. A. Heraud Legend St. Loy 4 My Soul delights in every sylvan spot, Where she may find the Beauteous and the Grand. 1842 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 51 101 Down to the dreary caverns of the grave Pass'd,..Unmark'd, unmourn'd the beauteous and the brave. 1851 E. A. Bowring tr. F. Schiller Poems 244 Even the Beauteous must die! 1990 D. Ashton Crit. Stud. P. Guston (new ed.) x. 146 His straining toward the reconciliation of the beauteous and the monstrous. 1998 Guardian 11 July 4 This transmedia blitz of the beauteous and the bimboid gives clubbing an unreconstructed image. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.n.1435
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