单词 | rangé |
释义 | rangéadj.ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > other manners or types of charge or ordinary bially1486 counter-quartered1562 oppressed1572 succedent1688 batoned1691 appointé1753 rangé1780 lowered?1828 1780 J. Edmondson Compl. Body Heraldry II. (Gloss.) Range, [sic] is a French term signifying many mullets, or other charges, placed in bend, saltire, fesse, cross, etc. 1894 H. Gough & J. Parker Gloss. Terms Heraldry (new ed.) Rangé, (fr.): arranged in a line. 2. Esp. of a person: orderly, regular; settled, domesticated. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > [adjective] ordinatea1398 ordinaryc1475 orderly1553 rangé1830 cosmic1858 ranged1899 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > restrained or moderate behaviour > [adjective] > orderly, regular, or consistent ordinatec1395 orderly1566 regular1590 consistent1734 rangé1830 ranged1899 1830 C. Bury Separation II. ix. 125 He, being a person exceedingly rangé in his ménage, got all his household accounts in, as usual after an absence from home. 1893 A. Atkinson Let. 6 Feb. in F. Stark Traveller's Prelude (1950) ii. 29 He is stolider than ever and getting fat—looked terribly rangé and bourgeois. 1906 W. De Morgan Joseph Vance xviii. 149 It [sc. a public house] is still the George the Fourth, but the gas-jets no longer sow wild oats of lamp-black—they are rangés. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 29 Oct. 838/2 Experiences that left her mature, to enter, possibly, on the next stage of her life definitely rangée. 1934 ‘A. Bridge’ Ginger Griffin iv. 46 It's possible for girls to be too rangées. 1941 ‘R. West’ Black Lamb & Grey Falcon I. 195 That bias would make it very difficult for Slavs ever to settle down under a government, and lead a rangé political life. 1952 ‘J. Tey’ Singing Sands v. 78 He listened..to the talk of the two fellow sheep-farmers... Nothing hounded these large rangé creatures. 1977 A. Wilson Strange Ride R. Kipling vii. 334 Kipling was a..respected writer in France, particularly in rangé circles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1780 |
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