rebelliousadj.n.

Brit.

/rᵻˈbɛljəs/, U.S.

/rəˈbɛljəs/,

/riˈbɛljəs/

Forms: late Middle English rebellouse, late Middle English rebellyus, late Middle English–1500s rebellyous, late Middle English–1800s rebellous, late Middle English– rebellious, 1500s rebelliouse, 1500s rebellyouse; Scottish pre-1700 rebellieous, pre-1700 rebellius, pre-1700 rebellous, pre-1700 1700s– rebellious.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rebellis , rebelliō , -ous suffix.

Etymology: < either classical Latin rebellis rebel adj. or rebelliō rebellion n.¹ + -ous suffix. Compare post-classical Latin rebelliosus (1596 in a work title), Middle French rebelleux (1486). Compare slightly later rebellant adj.

a. Tending to rebel; defying lawful or established authority; insubordinate, in rebellion. Occasionally with against, to. Also as n. (frequently with the and plural agreement): rebellious people as a class. rebellious assembly, in Cowell's Interpreter (1607) and later dictionaries, is defined in accordance with the act cited in quot. 1553.

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society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective]

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?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 4812 (MED) To ilk man he was rebellouse, In all his dedys maleciouse.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 17 (MED) This Adrian tamede the Iewes, beenge rebellous [L. rebellantes], puttenge theym from Ierusalem.

c1475 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 225 Alle Rebellyous undyr he schal hem brynge.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rest of Esther xiii. C They which of olde (and now also) haue euer bene rebellious.

1553 Act 1 Mary ii. c. xii An Acte againste unlawfull and rebellyous Assembles.

1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxvi. 7 Let not the rebellious exalt themselues.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 3 A Pandect of profitable lawes against rebellious spirits.

1641 H. Thorndike Of Govt. Churches Ep. Ded. sig. 2^v It is a Child rebellious to the Fathers intentions.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 414 On th' other part Satan with his rebellious disappeerd.

1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ i. 9 When we view thy Strange Design To save Rebellious Worms.

1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 61 My weak heart..Will beat, rebellious to its own resolves.

1827 C. M. Sedgwick Hope Leslie II. x. 209 From his boyhood, he had been rebellious against her petty domiciliary tyranny.

1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 13 Lost sheep that err rebellious to the lady Dindymene.

1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. i. 9 A horrid rebellious girl who has been expelled from a school.

1903 H. Keller Story of my Life i. xx. 70 The thought that I must spend hours reading a few chapters, while in the world without other girls are laughing and singing and dancing, makes me rebellious.

1941 Church Hist. 10 287 When the natives were rebellious, a band of soldiers mounted on horses and armed with guns would sally out from a presidio and enforce obedience.

2004 BusinessWeek 26 Apr. 37 Occupation forces find themselves in a tense standoff..with rebellious Sunni Baathists and foreign jihadists.

b. In extended use.

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1550 H. Latimer Serm. Stamford sig. D.vi Gyue, gyue, a heuye woorde to a couetouse hearte, to a rebellyouse hearte, they woulde not heare Reddite or date, paye or giue, but take, catch, kepe fast.

1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xv. f. 102 The parents see ye disobediece or rather rebellious minde of their childe.

c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xvii. vi Thou by faithfull men wilt stand, And save them from rebellious hand.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 56 Point against Point, rebellious Arme 'gainst Arme.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 86 Revenge, that shall redound Upon his own rebellious head.

1745 P. Doddridge Rise & Progress Relig. in Soul iv. 35 Against whom hast thou exalted they Voice, lifted up thy rebellious Hand?

a1791 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Poet. Wks. (1868) X. 265 A world of Ninevites convert, And break my poor rebellious heart.

1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 87 Douglas ne'er Will level a rebellious spear.

1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. ii. ii. 116 When Mauger..let loose his rebellious tongue.

a1861 T. Winthrop Edwin Brothertoft (1864) vii. 244 Poor Sappho..was as much flustered as a nervous chemical professor when his pupils..turn up rebellious noses at his olefiant gas.

1957 Amer. Lit. 29 138 He ultimately realized that a rebellious heart could bring him to disaster.

1991 S. Phillips Hot Shot i. v. 66 With rebellious young eyes uncorrupted by old knowledge, they saw what was happening at places where the nerds got together.

†c. Of intoxicating liquor: harmful to the health. Obsolete. rare.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iii. 50 In my youth I neuer did apply Hot, and rebellious liquors in my bloud.

2. Of an action, period, etc.: characteristic of a rebel or rebels; marked by rebellion.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective] > of words, actions, or things

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1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §8. m. 3 Joyed in rumour and rebellious novelries.

1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr I. Oldecastell 20 Vpon youre rebellyouse contumacye ye were both excommunicated.

1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 6^v Laconia.., which hauing beene long time gouerned (all be with many insurrections, and rebellious commotions) by the renowned Basilius, was after his discease.., giuen to the noble and famous Amphyalus.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 786 His hapless Foes,..to rebellious fight rallied thir Powers.

a1704 T. Brown On Duke of Ormond's Recovery in Wks. (1707) I. i. 73 Cæsar to aid and end Rebellious strife.

1799 C. B. Brown Death Cicero 29 in Edgar Huntly III. The punishments which his refractory and rebellious conduct had frequently incurred.

1806 ‘C. Dacre’ Zofloya II. xiv. 42 Without a single rebellious struggle, therefore, on his side, the Florentine retained his arm.

1863 H. W. Longfellow Prelude vii, in Tales Wayside Inn 7 The sword his grandsire bore, In the rebellious days of yore.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 919/2 The rebellious demonstrations of the Byzantine populace..drove him in 512 to..adopt a monophysitic programme.

1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 56/1 During her rebellious teens,..her forays into amateur modeling for local department stores became one of the ways she could please her mother.

a. Of a disease or condition: resistant to treatment; refractory. Now rare.

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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > resistant to treatment

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1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 89 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. The medicines that are both colde and adstryngente, are mete for rebellious vlcers, rottenes, and fluxions.

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xv. 24 Very good against..rebellious old sores.

1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. liv. 557 They..vse the oile for rebellious ringwormes.

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 229 It [sc. a tumour] is rebellious to all common Medicines.

1711 W. Beckett New Discov. Cure Cancers 31 This formidable Disease is not so rebellious, but that it may be sometimes conquer'd by Art.

1758 J. Reeves Art Farriery 375 When the proud flesh is very rebellious, you may strew the precipitate over it alone, or mixt with burnt alum.

1847 Lancet 5 June 583/2 The intercostal, the sciatic, the crural, and the dorsal and other nerves, were all..the seat of severe neuralgic pains, which generally proved rebellious to local therapeutic agents.

1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 800 Few skin lesions have proved more rebellious [than lupus].

1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xvii. 156 Under this provisional name [sc. parapsoriasis], Brocq in 1902 grouped several rare and unclassifiable chronic non-pruriginous, scaly erythrodermias of unknown etiology which are extremely persistent and rebellious to all treatment.

1991 Pain 44 285 A few surgeons have successfully treated rebellious chronic pain with stereotaxic operations in the corona radiata.

b. Of a material thing: unmanageable; refractory, recalcitrant; offering resistance.

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the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things)

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1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 307 The Earth became rebellious against man, and man against himselfe: and to bee short, that man was wrapped in the wretchednesse of this world, intangled with sinne in himself.

1598 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse (new ed.) sig. B2^v If his mane grow out of order, and he haue any rebellious haires.

1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 21 The newter gender is accounted an Eunuch amongst us, & therfore all newters, as stannum, æs, cuprum, plumbum, and such like rebellious metalls we burne for heretickes.

1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. d2 He had already chidden the Rebellious Winds for obeying the Commands of their Usurping Master.

1742 T. Cooke tr. Anacreon in Poems iv. 261 The rebellious Strings I chang'd: O'er them quick my Fingers rang'd.

1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xii. 13 His maiden aunt applied it commonly to the laudable purpose of pressing her rebellious linens to the folds she had allotted them.

1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 148 ‘Bring forward’, he said, ‘our key..and apply it to this rebellious gate.’

1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 609 The new processes for the treatment of rebellious gold ores.

1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 17 Putting on his stiff collar and rebellious tie, he spoke to them, chiding them, and to his dangling watchchain.

2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 165 He kept stuffing the pipe with the rebellious tobacco.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	rebellious
释义	rebelliousadj.n. Brit. /rᵻˈbɛljəs/, U.S. /rəˈbɛljəs/, /riˈbɛljəs/ Forms: late Middle English rebellouse, late Middle English rebellyus, late Middle English–1500s rebellyous, late Middle English–1800s rebellous, late Middle English– rebellious, 1500s rebelliouse, 1500s rebellyouse; Scottish pre-1700 rebellieous, pre-1700 rebellius, pre-1700 rebellous, pre-1700 1700s– rebellious. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin rebellis , rebelliō , -ous suffix. Etymology: < either classical Latin rebellis rebel adj. or rebelliō rebellion n.¹ + -ous suffix. Compare post-classical Latin rebelliosus (1596 in a work title), Middle French rebelleux (1486). Compare slightly later rebellant adj. 1. a. Tending to rebel; defying lawful or established authority; insubordinate, in rebellion. Occasionally with against, to. Also as n. (frequently with the and plural agreement): rebellious people as a class. rebellious assembly, in Cowell's Interpreter (1607) and later dictionaries, is defined in accordance with the act cited in quot. 1553. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective] wilda1300 rebel1340 rebellious?c1450 rebellant?a1475 mutinous1564 mutine1584 Whiggish1699 rebelly1705 yoof1986 ?c1450 Life St. Cuthbert (1891) 4812 (MED) To ilk man he was rebellouse, In all his dedys maleciouse. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1874) V. 17 (MED) This Adrian tamede the Iewes, beenge rebellous [L. rebellantes], puttenge theym from Ierusalem. c1475 in R. H. Robbins Hist. Poems 14th & 15th Cent. (1959) 225 Alle Rebellyous undyr he schal hem brynge. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Rest of Esther xiii. C They which of olde (and now also) haue euer bene rebellious. 1553 Act 1 Mary ii. c. xii An Acte againste unlawfull and rebellyous Assembles. 1611 Bible (King James) Psalms lxvi. 7 Let not the rebellious exalt themselues. View more context for this quotation 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 3 A Pandect of profitable lawes against rebellious spirits. 1641 H. Thorndike Of Govt. Churches Ep. Ded. sig. 2^v It is a Child rebellious to the Fathers intentions. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 414 On th' other part Satan with his rebellious disappeerd. View more context for this quotation 1706 I. Watts Horæ Lyricæ i. 9 When we view thy Strange Design To save Rebellious Worms. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc v. 61 My weak heart..Will beat, rebellious to its own resolves. 1827 C. M. Sedgwick Hope Leslie II. x. 209 From his boyhood, he had been rebellious against her petty domiciliary tyranny. 1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems lxiii. 13 Lost sheep that err rebellious to the lady Dindymene. 1888 M. E. Braddon Fatal Three I. i. 9 A horrid rebellious girl who has been expelled from a school. 1903 H. Keller Story of my Life i. xx. 70 The thought that I must spend hours reading a few chapters, while in the world without other girls are laughing and singing and dancing, makes me rebellious. 1941 Church Hist. 10 287 When the natives were rebellious, a band of soldiers mounted on horses and armed with guns would sally out from a presidio and enforce obedience. 2004 BusinessWeek 26 Apr. 37 Occupation forces find themselves in a tense standoff..with rebellious Sunni Baathists and foreign jihadists. b. In extended use. ΚΠ 1550 H. Latimer Serm. Stamford sig. D.vi Gyue, gyue, a heuye woorde to a couetouse hearte, to a rebellyouse hearte, they woulde not heare Reddite or date, paye or giue, but take, catch, kepe fast. 1567 W. Painter Palace of Pleasure II. xv. f. 102 The parents see ye disobediece or rather rebellious minde of their childe. c1580 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalmes David xvii. vi Thou by faithfull men wilt stand, And save them from rebellious hand. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) i. ii. 56 Point against Point, rebellious Arme 'gainst Arme. View more context for this quotation 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 86 Revenge, that shall redound Upon his own rebellious head. View more context for this quotation 1745 P. Doddridge Rise & Progress Relig. in Soul iv. 35 Against whom hast thou exalted they Voice, lifted up thy rebellious Hand? a1791 J. Wesley & C. Wesley Poet. Wks. (1868) X. 265 A world of Ninevites convert, And break my poor rebellious heart. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 87 Douglas ne'er Will level a rebellious spear. 1848 E. Bulwer-Lytton Harold I. ii. ii. 116 When Mauger..let loose his rebellious tongue. a1861 T. Winthrop Edwin Brothertoft (1864) vii. 244 Poor Sappho..was as much flustered as a nervous chemical professor when his pupils..turn up rebellious noses at his olefiant gas. 1957 Amer. Lit. 29 138 He ultimately realized that a rebellious heart could bring him to disaster. 1991 S. Phillips Hot Shot i. v. 66 With rebellious young eyes uncorrupted by old knowledge, they saw what was happening at places where the nerds got together. †c. Of intoxicating liquor: harmful to the health. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare As you like It (1623) ii. iii. 50 In my youth I neuer did apply Hot, and rebellious liquors in my bloud. View more context for this quotation 2. Of an action, period, etc.: characteristic of a rebel or rebels; marked by rebellion. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of subjection > rebelliousness > [adjective] > of words, actions, or things rebelc1430 rebellious1491 mutinousa1616 1491–2 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VII (Electronic ed.) Parl. Oct. 1491 §8. m. 3 Joyed in rumour and rebellious novelries. 1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr I. Oldecastell 20 Vpon youre rebellyouse contumacye ye were both excommunicated. 1607 G. Markham First Pt. First Bk. Eng. Arcadia f. 6^v Laconia.., which hauing beene long time gouerned (all be with many insurrections, and rebellious commotions) by the renowned Basilius, was after his discease.., giuen to the noble and famous Amphyalus. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vi. 786 His hapless Foes,..to rebellious fight rallied thir Powers. View more context for this quotation a1704 T. Brown On Duke of Ormond's Recovery in Wks. (1707) I. i. 73 Cæsar to aid and end Rebellious strife. 1799 C. B. Brown Death Cicero 29 in Edgar Huntly III. The punishments which his refractory and rebellious conduct had frequently incurred. 1806 ‘C. Dacre’ Zofloya II. xiv. 42 Without a single rebellious struggle, therefore, on his side, the Florentine retained his arm. 1863 H. W. Longfellow Prelude vii, in Tales Wayside Inn 7 The sword his grandsire bore, In the rebellious days of yore. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 919/2 The rebellious demonstrations of the Byzantine populace..drove him in 512 to..adopt a monophysitic programme. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Feb. 56/1 During her rebellious teens,..her forays into amateur modeling for local department stores became one of the ways she could please her mother. 3. a. Of a disease or condition: resistant to treatment; refractory. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > resistant to treatment contumace?1541 contumaced?1541 rebel?1541 wayward?1541 rebellious1565 pertinacious1578 contumacious1605 surly1609 refractory1634 sturdy1643 irreducible1836 1565 J. Hall Expositiue Table 89 in tr. Lanfranc Most Excellent Woorke Chirurg. The medicines that are both colde and adstryngente, are mete for rebellious vlcers, rottenes, and fluxions. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xv. 24 Very good against..rebellious old sores. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique iii. liv. 557 They..vse the oile for rebellious ringwormes. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 229 It [sc. a tumour] is rebellious to all common Medicines. 1711 W. Beckett New Discov. Cure Cancers 31 This formidable Disease is not so rebellious, but that it may be sometimes conquer'd by Art. 1758 J. Reeves Art Farriery 375 When the proud flesh is very rebellious, you may strew the precipitate over it alone, or mixt with burnt alum. 1847 Lancet 5 June 583/2 The intercostal, the sciatic, the crural, and the dorsal and other nerves, were all..the seat of severe neuralgic pains, which generally proved rebellious to local therapeutic agents. 1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 800 Few skin lesions have proved more rebellious [than lupus]. 1968 H. O. Mackey & J. P. Mackey Handbk. Dis. Skin (ed. 9) xvii. 156 Under this provisional name [sc. parapsoriasis], Brocq in 1902 grouped several rare and unclassifiable chronic non-pruriginous, scaly erythrodermias of unknown etiology which are extremely persistent and rebellious to all treatment. 1991 Pain 44 285 A few surgeons have successfully treated rebellious chronic pain with stereotaxic operations in the corona radiata. b. Of a material thing: unmanageable; refractory, recalcitrant; offering resistance. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > types of difficulty > [adjective] > difficult or intractable (of things) wickc1330 riotous1340 wickeda1352 untreatablec1374 frowarda1400 inobedient1495 stubborn?1518 unwieldya1538 unruly1548 wieldlessa1560 hard1560 untoward1566 tickle1570 churlish1577 unwieldsome1579 rebellious1587 disobedient1588 unframeable1593 unwilling1593 untractable1601 unmanageable1606 intractable1607 surly1609 unwedgeablea1616 dogged1627 uncontrollable1648 obdurate1651 morose1652 uncompliant1659 sullen1678 unpliant1716 ungovernable1773 sulky1867 intractile1880 unwieldly1881 bunglesome1915 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xvi. 307 The Earth became rebellious against man, and man against himselfe: and to bee short, that man was wrapped in the wretchednesse of this world, intangled with sinne in himself. 1598 T. Lodge & R. Greene Looking Glasse (new ed.) sig. B2^v If his mane grow out of order, and he haue any rebellious haires. 1641 J. Johnson Acad. Love 21 The newter gender is accounted an Eunuch amongst us, & therfore all newters, as stannum, æs, cuprum, plumbum, and such like rebellious metalls we burne for heretickes. 1697 J. Dryden Ded. Æneis in tr. Virgil Wks. sig. d2 He had already chidden the Rebellious Winds for obeying the Commands of their Usurping Master. 1742 T. Cooke tr. Anacreon in Poems iv. 261 The rebellious Strings I chang'd: O'er them quick my Fingers rang'd. 1771 H. Mackenzie Man of Feeling xii. 13 His maiden aunt applied it commonly to the laudable purpose of pressing her rebellious linens to the folds she had allotted them. 1828 W. Scott Fair Maid of Perth v, in Chron. Canongate 2nd Ser. II. 148 ‘Bring forward’, he said, ‘our key..and apply it to this rebellious gate.’ 1882 Rep. Precious Metals (U.S. Bureau of Mint) 609 The new processes for the treatment of rebellious gold ores. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses i. i. [Telemachus] 17 Putting on his stiff collar and rebellious tie, he spoke to them, chiding them, and to his dangling watchchain. 2000 S. Bellow Ravelstein 165 He kept stuffing the pipe with the rebellious tobacco. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.?c1450
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