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单词 quivered
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quiveredadj.

Brit. /ˈkwɪvəd/, U.S. /ˈkwɪvərd/
Forms: see quiver n.1 and -ed suffix2.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: quiver n.1, -ed suffix2.
Etymology: < quiver n.1 + -ed suffix2, frequently translating classical Latin pharetrātus equipped with a quiver.
Formerly chiefly poetic.
1. Esp. of a person: provided or equipped with a quiver.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [adjective] > provided with quiver
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1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) iv. sig. Jiiiv What rage of flames..This boy hath causd, what force haste thou o quiuered Cupide [L. pharetrate Cupido] now?
1637 J. Milton Comus 15 Like a quiver'd nymph with arrowes keene.
a1661 B. Holyday tr. Juvenal Satyres (1673) 22 Quiver'd Semiramis [L. pharetrata Sameramis] th' Assyrian ne're Did thus.
1717 J. Addison tr. Ovid Metamorphoses in Wks. (1758) I. 169 Diana, with a sprightly train Of quiver'd virgins.
1720 S. Cobb tr. C. Quillet Callipædia iv. 140 The quiver'd God of Light no longer sings, But twangs his silver Bow.
1813 W. Scott Rokeby i. 31 A giant he, With quivered back.
1874 W. Bruce Heb. Odes 24 Safe from the shout of the quivered foe.
1960 C. Maddison tr. M. Flaminio in Apollo & Nine iii. 118 Chaste offspring of Latona and of Jove, Who, in the company of the quivered Nymphs, Range the Cynthian hill.
1995 Jerusalem Post (Nexis) 10 Feb. (Features) 4 What riper occasion than this very week for even quivered neophytes to tempt some arrows into the beckoning blue.
2. Placed or kept in, or as in, a quiver.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > missile > arrow > [adjective] > kept in quiver
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1561 B. Googe tr. ‘M. Palingenius’ Zodiake of Life (new ed.) iv. sig. Jiiiv Dame Venus' sonne, whose force dothe cause bothe man, and God obey. Who brond withal, & quiuered shaftes [L. pharetra] makes al the world afraid.
1651 E. Sherburne tr. Coluthus Rape of Hellen in Poems & Transl. 55 When his quiver'd Shafts she did not see She knew he was not Love.
1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 4 Full in their face the lifted bow he bore, And quiver'd deaths.
1735 J. Addison tr. Anacreon Wks. 61 He snatch'd his Bow and Quiver'd Pride.
1846 J. Keble Lyra Innocentium 288 If she once unlock her quivered store.
1902 W. C. Smith Poet. Wks. 225 Like Dian coming from the chase, With bow unstrung, and flushed with pride, The quivered arrows by her side.
1925 Daily Oklahoman 11 Jan. d1/1 The teepees long since have rotted to dust. Quivered arrows hang in dusty attics of modern bungalows.
2005 J. W. DeWolfe Wakpa Minisota! ii. 76 Strapped across his back was his sheathed elk horn bow and quivered arrows.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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