protractedadj.

Brit.

/prəˈtraktᵻd/, U.S.

/prəˈtræktəd/,

/proʊˈtræktəd/

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: protract v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < protract v. + -ed suffix¹.

1. Lengthened, extended, prolonged.

a. In time.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > protracting or drawing out > extended in duration

tracting1535

prolonged1557

long-drawn1592

spaciousa1593

lengthened1597

protracted1598

stretched1609

producted1628

continuated1632

extended1737

long-drawn-out1752

drawn-out1824

spun1869

1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. K^v It came that in these later dayes We haue our spring, when Phoebus glorious face Begins to lengthen his protracted wayes.

1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. C4 Haste therefore, haste, and call, Away: The gentle Night is prest to pay The vsurie of long Delights, She owes to these protracted Rites.

1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries xviii. 74 In stead of which Alleluia is sung another song called a tract, with a loud voice, and a protracted note, in a graue kind of Musicke.

a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 257 They kiss'd and in protracted kiss repos'd.

1796 J. Beekman Let. 20 Apr. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1271 Your protracted Delay as to these Matters compels us to reiterate our earnest Request of your Speedy Compliance thereto.

1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 117 The Captain heard sixteenthly—seventeenthly—eighteenthly, and to conclude, with a sort of feeling like protracted despair.

1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire vii. 147 The miseries of a protracted war.

1966 F. Herbert Dune II. 227 There was a protracted silence, then a multiple hissing of voices.

1997 Sight & Sound Jan. 46/2 Like the verbally ornate plays of..Webster or Beaumont and Fletcher, Sleepers is protracted in length, byzantine in plot, and fixated on elaborate language.

2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures ii. 27 His wife suffered a protracted labour, followed by convulsions.

†b. In space. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [adjective] > increasing in length > increased in length

extendedc1450

deduit1485

prolonged1557

produced1578

protensed1578

extent1641

prolated1715

lengthened1744

elongated1751

protracted1785

drawn-out1834

1785 W. Cowper Task i. 257 Their shaded walks And long protracted bowers.

1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 389 Mouth with involute spiral tongue, composed of protracted maxillæ.

1868 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 600 In 1486 Diaz found the final southing of the protracted African coast-line.

†2. Geometry. Designating a cycloid in which the point tracing out the curve lies inside, rather than on the circumference of the rolling circle; see prolate cycloid n. at prolate adj. Compounds. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > number > geometry > geometric space > [adjective] > having specific axes > lengthened in direction of polar axis

protracted1670

prolateda1703

prolate1715

1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 2006 As likewise the Magnitude of the Plain, as well of the Primary Cycloid, as of the Secundary, whether Contracted or Protracted.

1674 J. Wallis Let. 14 Feb. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1975) X. 478 The Compound of ye Annual & Menstrual motion, being a kind of (protracted) Cycloide; the concussion arising from ye Diurnal, must be there greatest, when it is parallel to ye curve of ye Cycloide.

1743 E. Stone New Math. Dict. (ed. 2) at Anomaly coequate or true Dr Wallis first gave the geometrical Solution thereof by means of the protracted Cycloid.

1816 G. Peacock & J. F. W. Herschel tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus ii. 662 The protracted or contracted cycloid.

†3. Drawn accurately or to scale; plotted out. See protract v. 5. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1696 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 498 The Courses and protracted figure thereof.

1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. ii. i. 67 To verify these protracted Distances, go to any of the Objects, as D, take the Bearing of X and Y, to find if they agree with the Protraction.

1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi ii. App. 51 Lieutenant Wilkinson has copied and carries with him a very elegant protracted sketch of the route.

†4. Delayed, tardy. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed

remiss?1518

adjourned1538

delayed1548

long-delayed1548

lag1552

prorogued1552

dilated1556

lagging1597

retardate1598

fristeda1600

lagged1602

retarded1636

deferred1651

prorogatory1672

lated1676

postponed1819

protracted1838

suspended1848

put-off1871

hung up1878

held1906

1838 S. Jackson tr. G. F. A. Strauss Reminisc. Early Life Lutheran Clergyman ii. 12 A cart appeared with the protracted produce of the fields.

Compounds

protracted meeting n. North American (now chiefly historical) a religious meeting lasting for several days.Though quot. 1829 refers to a two-day meeting for the religious instruction of the Choctaw, it appears not to represent the established compound.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > council > [noun] > protracted

protracted meeting1831

protract1908

1829 Missionary Herald (Boston) Oct. 321/1 The Indian mode of living, as to food and exposure, prevents their suffering any inconvenience from these protracted meetings held in the open air.]

1831 Boston Recorder 6 Apr. 54/5 You have probably seen..some brief accounts of religious meetings, continued, with little interruption, from morning till evening and from day to day, for the space of three, four, and in some instances, even ten days... Although these protracted meetings are of recent date; yet there has been sufficient time..to show their utility.

1832 Patriot & Farmer's Monitor (Kingston, Upper Canada) 10 Apr. 2/6 It is now required of the Episcopal Methodist preachers, to make the public acquainted with their motives for establishing Protracted Meetings.

1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. i. 2 It's a gentleman that calculates to hold a protracted meeten here to night.

1908 ‘E. C. Hall’ Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1909) i. 24 We went home feelin' like we'd been through a big protracted meetin' and got religion over again.

1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee i. 3 During ‘protracted meeting’,..most anybody was liable to get full of the spirit and shout in church.

2000 R. Carwardine in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 622/1 Methodists..did more than any others during the second Great Awakening (c. 1800–c. 1840) to..develop..and market new means of mass conversion: ‘protracted meetings’, full-time evangelists, and ‘anxious benches’.

Derivatives

proˈtractedly adv. in a protracted or drawn-out way.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [adverb] > in a protracted fashion

trailingly1589

protractedly1624

extendedly1660

prolongedly1832

1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον 142 They debated with Laarchus (but somewhat protractedly) about the matter.

1846 Times 7 Mar. 2/6 A change of so important a nature should be protractedly and doggedly discussed rather than adopted without the most mature deliberation.

1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 122 When..he told me that he himself..had received an order..I whistled protractedly, and decided offhand on going up to Cairo.

1989 J. Empson Sleep & Dreaming (BNC) 66 Hypnagogic experiences may also reflect after-images of activities protractedly engaged in during the preceding day.

proˈtractedness n. long duration or extent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time

lenghc888

longnessOE

enduringc1374

length1388

continuing1398

long lasting?c1400

perdurability?a1425

perseverance?a1425

permanence1440

perdurablenessc1450

perdurationc1450

continuation1469

diuturnity?a1475

prolixityc1500

endurancea1513

sustention1515

continuance1552

long standinga1568

longitude1596

long-lastingness1598

sempiternity1599

consistence1606

persistence1621

long-livedness1652

abidingness1654

productedness1664

imperdibility1713

longiturnity1727

endurableness1795

lengthiness1829

endurability1837

perenniality1841

longevity1842

protractedness1855

enduringnessa1867

1855 J. King Amer. Eclectic Obstetr. 311 Rigidity of the os uteri, during the first stage of labor, is a frequent cause of its protractedness.

1927 Music & Lett. 8 326 Strauss..is incontestably the possessor of the sense of rhythmoform; he never descends to protractedness or monotony.

1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Mar. 326/2 The exuberance and protractedness of Russian..social occasions.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	protracted
释义	protractedadj. Brit. /prəˈtraktᵻd/, U.S. /prəˈtræktəd/, /proʊˈtræktəd/ Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: protract v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < protract v. + -ed suffix¹. 1. Lengthened, extended, prolonged. a. In time. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring > protracting or drawing out > extended in duration tracting1535 prolonged1557 long-drawn1592 spaciousa1593 lengthened1597 protracted1598 stretched1609 producted1628 continuated1632 extended1737 long-drawn-out1752 drawn-out1824 spun1869 1598 F. Rous Thule ii. sig. K^v It came that in these later dayes We haue our spring, when Phoebus glorious face Begins to lengthen his protracted wayes. 1606 B. Jonson Hymenaei sig. C4 Haste therefore, haste, and call, Away: The gentle Night is prest to pay The vsurie of long Delights, She owes to these protracted Rites. 1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries xviii. 74 In stead of which Alleluia is sung another song called a tract, with a loud voice, and a protracted note, in a graue kind of Musicke. a1711 T. Ken Psyche iv, in Wks. (1721) IV. 257 They kiss'd and in protracted kiss repos'd. 1796 J. Beekman Let. 20 Apr. in Beekman Mercantile Papers (1956) III. 1271 Your protracted Delay as to these Matters compels us to reiterate our earnest Request of your Speedy Compliance thereto. 1819 W. Scott Legend of Montrose vi, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. IV. 117 The Captain heard sixteenthly—seventeenthly—eighteenthly, and to conclude, with a sort of feeling like protracted despair. 1864 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire vii. 147 The miseries of a protracted war. 1966 F. Herbert Dune II. 227 There was a protracted silence, then a multiple hissing of voices. 1997 Sight & Sound Jan. 46/2 Like the verbally ornate plays of..Webster or Beaumont and Fletcher, Sleepers is protracted in length, byzantine in plot, and fixated on elaborate language. 2002 J. C. Wharton Nature Cures ii. 27 His wife suffered a protracted labour, followed by convulsions. †b. In space. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > longitudinal extent > [adjective] > increasing in length > increased in length extendedc1450 deduit1485 prolonged1557 produced1578 protensed1578 extent1641 prolated1715 lengthened1744 elongated1751 protracted1785 drawn-out1834 1785 W. Cowper Task i. 257 Their shaded walks And long protracted bowers. 1856–8 W. Clark tr. J. van der Hoeven Handbk. Zool. I. 389 Mouth with involute spiral tongue, composed of protracted maxillæ. 1868 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 600 In 1486 Diaz found the final southing of the protracted African coast-line. †2. Geometry. Designating a cycloid in which the point tracing out the curve lies inside, rather than on the circumference of the rolling circle; see prolate cycloid n. at prolate adj. Compounds. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > geometric space > [adjective] > having specific axes > lengthened in direction of polar axis protracted1670 prolateda1703 prolate1715 1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 2006 As likewise the Magnitude of the Plain, as well of the Primary Cycloid, as of the Secundary, whether Contracted or Protracted. 1674 J. Wallis Let. 14 Feb. in H. Oldenburg Corr. (1975) X. 478 The Compound of ye Annual & Menstrual motion, being a kind of (protracted) Cycloide; the concussion arising from ye Diurnal, must be there greatest, when it is parallel to ye curve of ye Cycloide. 1743 E. Stone New Math. Dict. (ed. 2) at Anomaly coequate or true Dr Wallis first gave the geometrical Solution thereof by means of the protracted Cycloid. 1816 G. Peacock & J. F. W. Herschel tr. S. F. Lacroix Elem. Treat. Differential & Integral Calculus ii. 662 The protracted or contracted cycloid. †3. Drawn accurately or to scale; plotted out. See protract v. 5. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1696 in Colonial Rec. Pennsylvania (1852) I. 498 The Courses and protracted figure thereof. 1774 M. Mackenzie Treat. Maritim Surv. ii. i. 67 To verify these protracted Distances, go to any of the Objects, as D, take the Bearing of X and Y, to find if they agree with the Protraction. 1808 Z. M. Pike Acct. Exped. Sources Mississippi ii. App. 51 Lieutenant Wilkinson has copied and carries with him a very elegant protracted sketch of the route. †4. Delayed, tardy. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > a suitable time or opportunity > untimeliness > delay or postponement > [adjective] > delayed, deferred, or postponed remiss?1518 adjourned1538 delayed1548 long-delayed1548 lag1552 prorogued1552 dilated1556 lagging1597 retardate1598 fristeda1600 lagged1602 retarded1636 deferred1651 prorogatory1672 lated1676 postponed1819 protracted1838 suspended1848 put-off1871 hung up1878 held1906 1838 S. Jackson tr. G. F. A. Strauss Reminisc. Early Life Lutheran Clergyman ii. 12 A cart appeared with the protracted produce of the fields. Compounds protracted meeting n. North American (now chiefly historical) a religious meeting lasting for several days.Though quot. 1829 refers to a two-day meeting for the religious instruction of the Choctaw, it appears not to represent the established compound. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > [noun] > protracted protracted meeting1831 protract1908 1829 Missionary Herald (Boston) Oct. 321/1 The Indian mode of living, as to food and exposure, prevents their suffering any inconvenience from these protracted meetings held in the open air.] 1831 Boston Recorder 6 Apr. 54/5 You have probably seen..some brief accounts of religious meetings, continued, with little interruption, from morning till evening and from day to day, for the space of three, four, and in some instances, even ten days... Although these protracted meetings are of recent date; yet there has been sufficient time..to show their utility. 1832 Patriot & Farmer's Monitor (Kingston, Upper Canada) 10 Apr. 2/6 It is now required of the Episcopal Methodist preachers, to make the public acquainted with their motives for establishing Protracted Meetings. 1855 T. C. Haliburton Nature & Human Nature I. i. 2 It's a gentleman that calculates to hold a protracted meeten here to night. 1908 ‘E. C. Hall’ Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1909) i. 24 We went home feelin' like we'd been through a big protracted meetin' and got religion over again. 1948 Z. N. Hurston Seraph on Suwanee i. 3 During ‘protracted meeting’,..most anybody was liable to get full of the spirit and shout in church. 2000 R. Carwardine in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 622/1 Methodists..did more than any others during the second Great Awakening (c. 1800–c. 1840) to..develop..and market new means of mass conversion: ‘protracted meetings’, full-time evangelists, and ‘anxious benches’. Derivatives proˈtractedly adv. in a protracted or drawn-out way. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [adverb] > in a protracted fashion trailingly1589 protractedly1624 extendedly1660 prolongedly1832 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον 142 They debated with Laarchus (but somewhat protractedly) about the matter. 1846 Times 7 Mar. 2/6 A change of so important a nature should be protractedly and doggedly discussed rather than adopted without the most mature deliberation. 1893 F. W. L. Adams New Egypt 122 When..he told me that he himself..had received an order..I whistled protractedly, and decided offhand on going up to Cairo. 1989 J. Empson Sleep & Dreaming (BNC) 66 Hypnagogic experiences may also reflect after-images of activities protractedly engaged in during the preceding day. proˈtractedness n. long duration or extent. ΘΚΠ the world > time > duration > [noun] > long duration or lasting through time lenghc888 longnessOE enduringc1374 length1388 continuing1398 long lasting?c1400 perdurability?a1425 perseverance?a1425 permanence1440 perdurablenessc1450 perdurationc1450 continuation1469 diuturnity?a1475 prolixityc1500 endurancea1513 sustention1515 continuance1552 long standinga1568 longitude1596 long-lastingness1598 sempiternity1599 consistence1606 persistence1621 long-livedness1652 abidingness1654 productedness1664 imperdibility1713 longiturnity1727 endurableness1795 lengthiness1829 endurability1837 perenniality1841 longevity1842 protractedness1855 enduringnessa1867 1855 J. King Amer. Eclectic Obstetr. 311 Rigidity of the os uteri, during the first stage of labor, is a frequent cause of its protractedness. 1927 Music & Lett. 8 326 Strauss..is incontestably the possessor of the sense of rhythmoform; he never descends to protractedness or monotony. 1984 Times Lit. Suppl. 30 Mar. 326/2 The exuberance and protractedness of Russian..social occasions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1598
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