单词 | prisoned |
释义 | prisonedadj. Now chiefly literary. Confined in or as in a prison; imprisoned. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > [adjective] > imprisoned bounda1382 close1393 boundena1400 prisoneda1400 imprisoned1529 pent1554 encageda1616 prison-bound1816 a1400 (?c1300) Lay Folks Mass Bk. (Royal) (1879) 378 To hom þat are..seke or prisonde [v.rr. presund; in prisone]..þou sende socoure. a1450 St. Edith (Faust.) (1883) 4504 (MED) Þis mon þat y spake of, y-presonot here byfore, Was delyueryd. a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 241 (MED) He fonde there-in exiled and dampned to kuttynge of marbil and i-prionide [read i-prisonide] two þowsande of Cristen peple. 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. iii. sig. Fv Haue I drawne the sluce Of life vp? and..set my prisoned soule at large? 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. i. 342 With prisoned winds the wringing Collick paines-them. 1790 W. Cowper Stanzas 2 Where the prison'd lark is hung. 1811 W. Scott Don Roderick xxxii. 34 The groans of prisoned victims mar the lays. 1870 D. G. Rossetti Poems 190 Thine eyes Draw up my prisoned spirit to thy Soul! 1919 S. Sassoon Picture Show 34 And I was filled with such delight As prisoned birds must find in freedom. 1988 M. Keane Loving & Giving (BNC) 112 A trapped rat is safer than a prisoned lover. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1400 |
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