单词 | ridden |
释义 | riddenadj.ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > traveller > [adjective] > far-travelling far-comea1000 room-riddenc1450 far-went1609 far-travelled1905 c1450 (c1350) Alexander & Dindimus (Bodl.) (1929) 1131 (MED) Þis makelese man þat most was adouted, Þe romme-riden Alixandre, richest of kingus Hadde le[n]gged þere longe and lettrus þe while Endited. c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Knychthede (1993) iii. 17 Knychtis suld be wele ryddin—and in ȝouthede lere tobe well ryddin, on destrellis and courseris. 2. Of a horse: that is or has been ridden upon; broken-in. Also: (Equestrianism) designating a class of horse in a horse show. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > temperament > [adjective] > broken in ridden?1523 well reineda1533 backed1589 well rid1606 well-gaited1712 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xxxviv A corser is he that byeth all ryden horses and selleth them agayne. 1570 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 317 A young nagge..and a Ridden mare. 1607 G. Markham Cavelarice ii. 262 When you finde that you are able to ride a ridden horse, both with good arte and comelinesse. 1824 P. Schmidtmeyer Trav. into Chile ix. 171 The whole ride..costs very little more or less than twenty five dollars for each loaded or ridden horse. 1888 J. W. Harlan California '46 to '88 xxxviii. 167 When the ridden horse got tired, they would lasso one of the loose ones and ride him. 1928 Polit. Sci. Q. 43 376 It was organized as a highway express by ridden horses, not as a mail-boat system. 1976 Leicester Advertiser 26 Nov. Best ridden Dartmoor awards have been anonymously donated..—for ridden classes have for a long time been a poor relation in all pony breed classes. 2007 J. Weeks Compl. Equine Training Man. 5/2 In training a ridden horse we're showing him the best way to rebalance and carry himself and his rider. 3. a. Afflicted or beset with. ΚΠ 1587 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Iland Brit. (new ed.) i. xviii. 110/1 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) I Some superstitious fooles suppose that they which die of the garget are ridden with the night mare. 1683 J. Barnard Theologo-historicus 60 How many years after was this Nation ridden with the Reformers? 1702 S. Parker tr. Cicero Five Bks. De Finibus ii. 118 You are not so ridden with Apprehensions of Pain or Death as to boggle at all This. 1833 W. Howitt Pop. Hist. Priestcraft xvii. 220 The poor and the rich should be ridden with the most preposterous notion that they cannot lie in peace except in ground over which the bishop has said his mummery. 1892 Atlanta Constit. 21 Dec. 6/2 Their town was ridden with pestilence and the people destitute. 1953 C. L. R. James Mariners, Renegades & Castaways vii. 152 Those intellectuals who think they know so much (most of them ridden with fear because of their past association with Communists). 2002 India Today Internat. (U.K. Special ed.) 23 Sept. 6/2 Indian cricket is ridden with mistrust and mismanagement. b. Troubled, infested, afflicted. As the second element in compounds, as devil-ridden, gang-ridden, etc.For more established compounds see the first element (cf. also ride v. 19a). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] poorc1300 afflicta1393 mistada1400 aggrudged1440 afflicted1534 tribulate1575 distressed1586 rid1610 over-grieved1618 ridden1640 tribulated1682 hag-rid1691 crosseda1732 bad off1735 badly off1740 unfortunate1785 1640 R. Brome Antipodes sig. H3v Wom. So, so, Enough, enough, he will be quiet now. Mansc. How know you that, you divell ridden witch you? 1684 T. Otway Atheist ii. 18 He's married; plagu'd, troubled, and Hag-ridden. 1758 Things as they Are 38 What it has the supream impudence to call the only Church..is palpably nothing but a strong hold of pillage..maintained at the expence of prejudice-ridden fools. 1831 T. Moore Mem. (1856) VI. 189 It was..the old king-ridden feeling. 1850 F. W. Newman Phases of Faith 128 The deaf, the dumb, the hunch-backed, are spoken of as devil-ridden. 1861 F. W. Robinson No Church I. iv. 100 One must take advantage of the weather in this mist-ridden country. 1913 J. Stephens Here are Ladies 71 An old, ache-ridden, cough-racked, corn-footed septuagenarian. 1959 E. Tunis Indians 28/2 Many of the Plains hunters and all of the Digger Indians of the West were ghost-ridden and terrified of the dead. 2007 Independent 19 Feb. 21/4 An innocent bystander caught in a shoot-out in a gang-ridden neighbourhood of Miami. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [adjective] > subject to oppressive rule upsete1390 oppresseda1500 servile1547 subaltern1578 grinded1613 ridden1625 tyrannized1642 1625 T. Middleton Game at Chæss i. i. sig. C3 Poore Iesuite, ridden soule, how art thou foold Out of thy faith, from thy allegance drawne, Which way so ere thou takest, thou'rt the lost Pawne. 1656 J. Ellistone & J. Sparrow tr. J. Böhme Mysterium Magnum (new ed.) ii. lxxvii. 592 Therefore also hath God given thee up under Dans fallen Rider, so that thou must goe along as a slave and ridden horse, whom the Serpent stingeth with his venomous sting. 1677 T. Otway Cheats of Scapin i. i, in Titus & Berenice sig. Fv I told him, thou wert as Valiant as a ridden Cuckold. 1684 T. Southerne Disappointment iii. i. 22 The common, ridden Cuckold of the Town. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1450 |
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