单词 | sainted |
释义 | saintedadj. 1. Enrolled among the saints; canonized; that is a saint in Heaven. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > canonization > [adjective] canonized1382 canonizate?1548 incalendared1622 sainted1631 besainteda1635 beatified1650 enskied1852 1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 301 These Sainted Arch~bishops. a1634 W. Austin Devotionis Augustinianæ Flamma (1635) 224 Some others he [sc. the Pope] hath let in for Sainted Martyrs, of whom some..beleeve, that they were rather executed Traitors. 1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 433 Love's victim then, tho' now a sainted maid. 1845 H. W. Longfellow Norman Baron x The lightning showed the sainted Figures on the casement painted. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xx. 397 Lewis [XIV]..instituted..a new military order of knighthood, and placed it under the protection of his own sainted ancestor [St. Louis]. 2. a. Of sanctified or holy life or character. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > purity > [adjective] > like an angel or saint angelica1413 angelical1527 saintlikec1580 sainteda1616 a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iv. iii. 110 Thy Royall Father Was a most Sainted -King. View more context for this quotation 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. xvii. 58 I..pray for a blissful issue to the union of the sainted pair. 1810 W. Scott Lady of Lake ii. 55 The eve thy sainted mother died. 1826 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey II. iv. v. 209 His virtuous and sainted wife. 1867 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest I. v. 302 The former home of sainted princesses. b. Used trivially as an expletive in my sainted aunt (also mother)! ΚΠ 1869 ‘M. Twain’ Innocents Abroad v. 52 ‘Twenty-five cigars, at 100 reis, 2,500 reis!’ Oh, my sainted mother! 1916 M. Diver Desmond's Daughter ii. ii. 50 My sainted aunt! You did ought to have been in the anteroom just now. 1919 F. Hurst Humoresque 114 Your sainted mither!.. It's only because she was sainted I'm lettin' ye up in on her. 1920 P. G. Wodehouse Jill the Reckless xx. 370 ‘My sainted aunt!’ he said slowly. 1926 ‘Sapper’ Final Count v. 141 Oh! my sainted aunt! don't tell me that old gorse bush was Carl Peterson. 1939 P. G. Wodehouse Uncle Fred in Springtime xvii. 256 ‘Oh, my aunt! Don't tell me she's changed her mind and wants the stuff after all?’.. ‘Exactly.’ ‘Oh, my sainted bally aunt!’ 1971 R. Roberts Classic Slum viii. 127 Self-consciously we incorporated weird slang into our own oath-sprinkled banter—‘Yarooh!’ ‘My sainted aunt!’ ‘Leggo!’ and a dozen others. 3. Such as belongs to or befits a saint; sacred, holy. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [adjective] holyc897 saintc1175 life-holya1200 sanctifiedc1485 saintish1529 saintlikec1580 sainted1610 sancteous1631 savoury1642 saintly1660 1610 Mucedorus (new ed.) sig. F3 Case vicious Diuels vnder sancted Rochets. a1616 W. Shakespeare All's Well that ends Well (1623) iii. iv. 7 Bare-foot plod I the cold ground vpon With sainted vow my faults to haue amended. View more context for this quotation 1637 J. Milton Comus 1 Amongst the enthron'd gods on Sainted seats. 1652 J. French York-shire Spaw xvii. 123 Let not any one judge me to be a Catholick by this my approbation of this Sainted Well. 1760 T. Smollett Contin. Compl. Hist. Eng. I. 10 Bolingbroke..resided at Battersea, where he was visited like a sainted shrine by all the distinguished votaries of wit. 1817 T. Moore Lalla Rookh 351 And, like a glory, the broad sun Hangs over sainted Lebanon. 1848 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair l. 444 She rocked him in her arms, and wept silently over him in a sainted agony of tears. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [adverb] saintedlyc1789 c1789 Terry in T. Campbell Life of Mrs. Siddons (1834) II. vi. 149 So saintedly beauteous is the sickness and the grief of Katharine. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < adj.1610 |
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