单词 | revenued |
释义 | revenuedadj. That has a revenue or revenues. Usually with modifying word, as well, richly, etc. ΚΠ ?1615 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses (new ed.) xv. 239 The daughter was Of the much-yeare-reuennew'd Arybas. 1616 B. Jonson Cynthias Revels (rev. ed.) v. iv, in Wks. I. 246 I frotted a jerkin, for a new-reuenu'd gentleman. 1649 tr. Alcoran p. ix They haue Temples, Colleges, and Hospitales well revenued. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Lanc. 122 Knights..anciently descended, and richly reveneued in this County. 1796 W. Hutchinson Hist. & Antiq. City Carlisle 37 From the long continued vacancy of the see, it appears evidently, that it was in a sad unsettled state, and full of discord and troubles, as well as meanly revenued. 1821 C. R. Prinsep tr. J.-B. Say Treat. Polit. Econ. II. ii. ii. 20 As soon as the revenued individual converts his silver coin into an object of consumption, and that object is simply consumed, the value of his revenue thenceforth ceases to exist. 1835 J. H. Ingraham South-West I. iii. 37 With handsomely revenued clergymen of the Church of England, and rich in various tropical luxuries, it is a desirable foreign residence. 1868 Debater's Handbk. Controv. Topics 37/2 Are well-endowed professorships better for a country than richly revenued bishoprics? 1918 R. Putnam Luxemburg & her Neighbours ii. viii. 248 Prussia..did not consider that estates which had lost their prerogatives were equivalent to provinces well revenued. 1995 D. J. Cahill Squeezing New Service into Crowded Market ii. vii. 77 For the paper's entire life, it staggered on; under-revenued, and over-read. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1615 |
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