单词 | rashful |
释义 | rashfuladj. Now rare. = rash adj. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > carelessness > incautiousness > [adjective] > rash or reckless > specifically of actions, feelings, etc. recklessOE racklec1405 savagec1425 rash1533 hot-brained1556 rashful1567 blindfold1593 lavish1600 wretchless1607 blind1615 hand over head1682 wild goose1770 plunging1798 wild cat1890 (like a) bull at a (five-barred) gate1896 1567 G. Turberville Epitaphes, Epigrams f. 59 With hastie doome and rashfull sentence. 1581 W. Fowler Answer Hammiltoun sig. Aj The nature of vngodly men, be raschful temeritie and insupportabill audacitie, [etc.]..searches vitious extrimities. 1631 F. Quarles Hist. Samson 337 His studious hand betrayes A leash of hundreds, which he thus imploye As Agents in his rashfull enterprize. 1819 ‘R. Rabelais’ Abeillard & Heloisa 96 In others Love comes very bashful Though..very rashful. 1857 J. A. Maitland Cousins xxxvii. 382 In a moment of rashful impulse, he quitted Nantucket, and I heard nothing more of him. 1909 H. A. Bruce Romance of Amer. Expansion 4 Not rashful venturing or crude lust for gold had prompted the mighty exodus, but an all-absorbing desire to settle and cultivate and upbuild. 1978 D. Jhā Mahākavi Kālidāsa & Bhavabhūti ii. 82 To prevent Rāma from committing this rashful act of punishment. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1567 |
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