bloodshedn.adj.

Brit.

/ˈblʌdʃɛd/, U.S.

/ˈblədˌʃɛd/

Forms: late Middle English bloodsched, late Middle English bludshedd, 1500s blodesheddes (plural), 1500s bloudeshed, 1500s–1600s blodshed, 1500s–1600s bloodshedd, 1500s–1600s bloodshedde, 1500s–1600s bloudshead, 1500s–1600s bloudshed, 1500s–1600s bludshed, 1500s– bloodshed, 1600s bloudeshedde; Scottish pre-1700 bludesched, pre-1700 bludschaid, pre-1700 bluidsched, pre-1700 bluidscheid, pre-1700 1700s– bloodshed.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., shed v.¹

Etymology: < blood n. + the past participle of shed v.¹, after to shed blood (see shed v.¹ 7). Compare earlier bloodshedder n., bloodshedding n. In use as adjective perhaps by association with bloodshot adj.

A. n.

1. The shedding or spilling of the blood of another; murder; slaughter.

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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed

bloodOE

bloodsheddingc1230

bloodsheda1450

bloodletting1648

a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 13544 Ful strong bloodsched was þere then.

1488 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 29 For freis & bludshedd... Yf ony persone or persones make a fray at the hay crosse of Leycestre & blode draw, he schall forfet vis. viiid.

c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 396 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 88 For by bloud-shed they hop to be kepyd in stall.

1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII xii. (title) An acte for mourder and malicious bloudshed within the courte.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus iv. xxix, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 340 Thy right hand is imbrued with slaughter and bloodshed.

1625 M. Sutcliffe Blessings on Mount Gerizzim xii. 88 They neither are mild, nor patient, nor seek any thing else, but murder and bloudshed.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. iv. xxxi. 179 Do you see, Cuphophron, whither your pleaded-for Impostures carry, even to savage Murther and Blood-shed?

1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 139. ⁋7 He took the French Lines without Bloodshed.

1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. xxxvi. 174 I am for peace and good-fellowship, and hate bloodshed as much as I love justice!

1830 G. Croly George IV 283 Unhoused beggary, and the hideousness of civil bloodshed, combined and shaped themselves into a colossal power.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §3. 295 The accession of Henry the Seventh ended the long bloodshed of the Civil Wars.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 4/1 After the massacre at Kischineff, after the bloodshed at Homel, the idea of self-defence took root.

1965 Ebony May 55/1 Behind them was a forest of cars and rednecks..who congregated to witness another chapter of bloodshed.

2005 Femina (S. Afr.) Feb. 128/2 Our generosity, which brought us democracy without bloodshed.

2. An act of shedding or spilling blood; a murder. Now rare.

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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed > an act of

bloodshed1539

1539 J. Gough tr. J. Le Maire Abbreuyacyon Gen. Councellys sig. I.iii^v The abuses and abhomynable vyces, & enormytes be to tedius to wryt, specyally of the arrogaunt abhomynacyons,..bataylles, blode sheddes.

1579 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 149 Thair hes bene divers bluidscheddis betuix thame.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiv. 208 Mutuall combustions bloudsheads and wastes.

1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 67 A sherife may inquire of blood-sheddes in his turne.

a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 226 The violent bloodsheds of the Papists upon the Protestants.

1747 A. Le Moine Treat. Miracles 373 What Bloodsheds and Massacres..she has been guilty of, every body knows who is the least acquainted with the History of past Ages.

1840 Lit. Gaz. 8 Aug. 505/3 Let Humanity shudder, and turn her eyes from the refined bloodshed that was now executed—a bloodshed, however, not by quickly despatching, but by demoniacly extracting the life of innocent men.

1896 Indiana State Jrnl. (Indianapolis) 26 Feb. 2/5 The one fountain of all the evils and..bloodsheds of the world is that men will set up some other mastery than that of willingness to serve.

1958 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 17 337 The murders, executions, and bloodsheds in which the novel abounds are rarely varied by..touches of humour.

1984 J. A. Sharpe Crime in Early Mod. Eng. i. 51 Forty-five presentments, about 15 per cent of the total, involved affrays and bloodsheds.

3. The shedding of one's own blood.Used originally and chiefly with reference to Jesus, who in voluntarily submitting to death is said to have shed his blood for the salvation of humankind.

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the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > violent death

qualmOE

strong deathOE

bloodsheddinga1500

bloodshed1547

1547 I. B. Bryefe & Plaine Declaracion sig. A ii Man, who could not otherwyse be restored then by the bloudshed of that most pure and innocent lambe Iesu Chryst.

1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 597 The Countries are conquered to Jesus Christ by those fewe Disciples preaching his bludshed and sheading their owne.

1600 Chester Plays (Harl. 2013) 6 His scourginge, his whippinge, his bloude shedde and passion.

1656 R. Baxter Gildas Salvianus: 1st Pt. vi. 360 Christ also will be honoured in the fruits of his bloodshed.

1767 Spiritual Lett. 86 Think of the efficacy of his bloodshed for the ungodly.

a1771 J. Gill Compl. Body Doctrinal & Pract. Divinity (1796) I. ii. 325 For this purpose he became man, and by his bloodshed, sufferings and death, has made it; which lays a foundation of solid joy in his people.

1828 G. Moir tr. F. Schiller Hist. Wks. II. iv. 158 The soldier..justly demanded a share in that spoil which had been purchased by his own labour and his own bloodshed.

1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 19 He came up to me..with a piece of spongious coralline to ease me of my bloodshed.

1898 W. Marshall Aarbert iii. ii. 171 He is all men; all men's in His bloodshed. He is the Son of God and Son of Adam.

1967 Harvard Law Rev. 80 1775 Conceivably the demonstrators could argue that they have an interest in the publicity value of their own bloodshed.

1994 M. E. Dyson in M. J. Buhle et al. Amer. Radical xlii. 324 King advocated redemptive suffering for blacks through their own bloodshed.

†4. Blood present in or beneath the conjunctiva; spec. congestion of conjunctival blood vessels; an instance of this. Cf. bloodshot n. 1. Obsolete.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > bloodshot or bloodshot eye

bloodshot1552

blood-shotten1578

blood-shotting1578

hyposphagma1615

bloodshed1652

blood eye1658

blood-shottenness1659

1652 Edwards' Treat. conc. Plague 118 in A. M. Rich Closet Bloudshed in the eye.

1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 68 Who..hath not suffered the least Taraxis (or Bloud-shed) in his Eye.

1702 London Gaz. No. 3853/4 Had a little Bloodshed in the inside Corner of his right Eye.

1880 W. E. Montague Campaigning in S. Afr. iv. 45 As a rule, they had at least a pint of bloodshed in each eye, with an unmistakable preference for drink.

B. adj.

= bloodshot adj. 1. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bloodshot

bloodshota1450

blood-shottenc1450

shottenc1460

sanguinous1490

bloodshed1583

sanguined1700

blood-run1703

blood-discoloured1871

1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxxviii. 48 This is also a present remedy for the eyes that are bloudshed, when they burne as though there were grauell in them.

1612 J. Webster White Divel sig. D2^v O thou cursed antipathy to nature, looke his eyes bloud-shed like a needle a Chirurgeon stitcheth a wound with, let me embrace thee toad.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. ix. 82 I undertake to heal..wounded Eyes and eye-lids, though they be never so much bloudshed.

1697 London Gaz. No. 3254/4 Light grey Eyes often Bloodshed.

1755 J. Grainger Solitude in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 235 Late in Hagley you were seen, With bloodshed eyes, and sombre mien.

1855 Anglo-Amer. Mag. June 518/2 Her eyes were bloodshed and swelled with the night's grief.

1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxxiii. 261 Occasionally a red signal lamp would glare down upon her like the bloodshed eye of some demon who presided over this kingdom of iron and steel.

1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxii. 284 His eyes were bloodshed and his look was ghastly like a messenger of ill.

2007 B. R. Bradbrook Handbk. Czech Prose Writing 24 Why should the janitor Hron, who curses the Nazi intruders, be associated with the SS man whose canine teeth and bloodshed eyes suggest a wolf?

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	bloodshed
释义	bloodshedn.adj. Brit. /ˈblʌdʃɛd/, U.S. /ˈblədˌʃɛd/ Forms: late Middle English bloodsched, late Middle English bludshedd, 1500s blodesheddes (plural), 1500s bloudeshed, 1500s–1600s blodshed, 1500s–1600s bloodshedd, 1500s–1600s bloodshedde, 1500s–1600s bloudshead, 1500s–1600s bloudshed, 1500s–1600s bludshed, 1500s– bloodshed, 1600s bloudeshedde; Scottish pre-1700 bludesched, pre-1700 bludschaid, pre-1700 bluidsched, pre-1700 bluidscheid, pre-1700 1700s– bloodshed. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: blood n., shed v.¹ Etymology: < blood n. + the past participle of shed v.¹, after to shed blood (see shed v.¹ 7). Compare earlier bloodshedder n., bloodshedding n. In use as adjective perhaps by association with bloodshot adj. A. n. 1. The shedding or spilling of the blood of another; murder; slaughter. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed bloodOE bloodsheddingc1230 bloodsheda1450 bloodletting1648 a1450 (c1410) H. Lovelich Merlin (1913) II. l. 13544 Ful strong bloodsched was þere then. 1488 in M. Bateson Rec. Borough Leicester (1901) II. 29 For freis & bludshedd... Yf ony persone or persones make a fray at the hay crosse of Leycestre & blode draw, he schall forfet vis. viiid. c1540 Pilgrim's Tale 396 in F. Thynne Animaduersions (1875) App. i. 88 For by bloud-shed they hop to be kepyd in stall. 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII xii. (title) An acte for mourder and malicious bloudshed within the courte. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Socrates Scholasticus iv. xxix, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 340 Thy right hand is imbrued with slaughter and bloodshed. 1625 M. Sutcliffe Blessings on Mount Gerizzim xii. 88 They neither are mild, nor patient, nor seek any thing else, but murder and bloudshed. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues: Two Last Dial. iv. xxxi. 179 Do you see, Cuphophron, whither your pleaded-for Impostures carry, even to savage Murther and Blood-shed? 1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 139. ⁋7 He took the French Lines without Bloodshed. 1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. xxxvi. 174 I am for peace and good-fellowship, and hate bloodshed as much as I love justice! 1830 G. Croly George IV 283 Unhoused beggary, and the hideousness of civil bloodshed, combined and shaped themselves into a colossal power. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People vi. §3. 295 The accession of Henry the Seventh ended the long bloodshed of the Civil Wars. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 4 July 4/1 After the massacre at Kischineff, after the bloodshed at Homel, the idea of self-defence took root. 1965 Ebony May 55/1 Behind them was a forest of cars and rednecks..who congregated to witness another chapter of bloodshed. 2005 Femina (S. Afr.) Feb. 128/2 Our generosity, which brought us democracy without bloodshed. 2. An act of shedding or spilling blood; a murder. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [noun] > bloodshed > an act of bloodshed1539 1539 J. Gough tr. J. Le Maire Abbreuyacyon Gen. Councellys sig. I.iii^v The abuses and abhomynable vyces, & enormytes be to tedius to wryt, specyally of the arrogaunt abhomynacyons,..bataylles, blode sheddes. 1579 in D. Masson Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1880) 1st Ser. III. 149 Thair hes bene divers bluidscheddis betuix thame. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie iv. xiv. 208 Mutuall combustions bloudsheads and wastes. 1620 J. Wilkinson Treat. Statutes conc. Coroners & Sherifes (new ed.) 67 A sherife may inquire of blood-sheddes in his turne. a1676 M. Hale Primitive Originat. Mankind (1677) ii. x. 226 The violent bloodsheds of the Papists upon the Protestants. 1747 A. Le Moine Treat. Miracles 373 What Bloodsheds and Massacres..she has been guilty of, every body knows who is the least acquainted with the History of past Ages. 1840 Lit. Gaz. 8 Aug. 505/3 Let Humanity shudder, and turn her eyes from the refined bloodshed that was now executed—a bloodshed, however, not by quickly despatching, but by demoniacly extracting the life of innocent men. 1896 Indiana State Jrnl. (Indianapolis) 26 Feb. 2/5 The one fountain of all the evils and..bloodsheds of the world is that men will set up some other mastery than that of willingness to serve. 1958 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 17 337 The murders, executions, and bloodsheds in which the novel abounds are rarely varied by..touches of humour. 1984 J. A. Sharpe Crime in Early Mod. Eng. i. 51 Forty-five presentments, about 15 per cent of the total, involved affrays and bloodsheds. 3. The shedding of one's own blood.Used originally and chiefly with reference to Jesus, who in voluntarily submitting to death is said to have shed his blood for the salvation of humankind. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > manner of death > [noun] > violent death qualmOE strong deathOE bloodsheddinga1500 bloodshed1547 1547 I. B. Bryefe & Plaine Declaracion sig. A ii Man, who could not otherwyse be restored then by the bloudshed of that most pure and innocent lambe Iesu Chryst. 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxxii. 597 The Countries are conquered to Jesus Christ by those fewe Disciples preaching his bludshed and sheading their owne. 1600 Chester Plays (Harl. 2013) 6 His scourginge, his whippinge, his bloude shedde and passion. 1656 R. Baxter Gildas Salvianus: 1st Pt. vi. 360 Christ also will be honoured in the fruits of his bloodshed. 1767 Spiritual Lett. 86 Think of the efficacy of his bloodshed for the ungodly. a1771 J. Gill Compl. Body Doctrinal & Pract. Divinity (1796) I. ii. 325 For this purpose he became man, and by his bloodshed, sufferings and death, has made it; which lays a foundation of solid joy in his people. 1828 G. Moir tr. F. Schiller Hist. Wks. II. iv. 158 The soldier..justly demanded a share in that spoil which had been purchased by his own labour and his own bloodshed. 1869 R. D. Blackmore Lorna Doone I. ii. 19 He came up to me..with a piece of spongious coralline to ease me of my bloodshed. 1898 W. Marshall Aarbert iii. ii. 171 He is all men; all men's in His bloodshed. He is the Son of God and Son of Adam. 1967 Harvard Law Rev. 80 1775 Conceivably the demonstrators could argue that they have an interest in the publicity value of their own bloodshed. 1994 M. E. Dyson in M. J. Buhle et al. Amer. Radical xlii. 324 King advocated redemptive suffering for blacks through their own bloodshed. †4. Blood present in or beneath the conjunctiva; spec. congestion of conjunctival blood vessels; an instance of this. Cf. bloodshot n. 1. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [noun] > bloodshot or bloodshot eye bloodshot1552 blood-shotten1578 blood-shotting1578 hyposphagma1615 bloodshed1652 blood eye1658 blood-shottenness1659 1652 Edwards' Treat. conc. Plague 118 in A. M. Rich Closet Bloudshed in the eye. 1684 tr. T. Bonet Guide Pract. Physician iii. 68 Who..hath not suffered the least Taraxis (or Bloud-shed) in his Eye. 1702 London Gaz. No. 3853/4 Had a little Bloodshed in the inside Corner of his right Eye. 1880 W. E. Montague Campaigning in S. Afr. iv. 45 As a rule, they had at least a pint of bloodshed in each eye, with an unmistakable preference for drink. B. adj. = bloodshot adj. 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > [adjective] > bloodshot bloodshota1450 blood-shottenc1450 shottenc1460 sanguinous1490 bloodshed1583 sanguined1700 blood-run1703 blood-discoloured1871 1583 P. Barrough Methode of Phisicke i. xxxviii. 48 This is also a present remedy for the eyes that are bloudshed, when they burne as though there were grauell in them. 1612 J. Webster White Divel sig. D2^v O thou cursed antipathy to nature, looke his eyes bloud-shed like a needle a Chirurgeon stitcheth a wound with, let me embrace thee toad. 1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid ii. ix. 82 I undertake to heal..wounded Eyes and eye-lids, though they be never so much bloudshed. 1697 London Gaz. No. 3254/4 Light grey Eyes often Bloodshed. 1755 J. Grainger Solitude in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems IV. 235 Late in Hagley you were seen, With bloodshed eyes, and sombre mien. 1855 Anglo-Amer. Mag. June 518/2 Her eyes were bloodshed and swelled with the night's grief. 1890 A. Conan Doyle Firm of Girdlestone xxxiii. 261 Occasionally a red signal lamp would glare down upon her like the bloodshed eye of some demon who presided over this kingdom of iron and steel. 1922 E. R. Eddison Worm Ouroboros xxii. 284 His eyes were bloodshed and his look was ghastly like a messenger of ill. 2007 B. R. Bradbrook Handbk. Czech Prose Writing 24 Why should the janitor Hron, who curses the Nazi intruders, be associated with the SS man whose canine teeth and bloodshed eyes suggest a wolf? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.a1450
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