blemishn.

Brit.

/ˈblɛmɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈblɛmɪʃ/

Forms: Also 1500s blemysh, bleamish(e.

Etymology: < blemish v.

1. Physical defect or disfigurement; a stain. (Used spec. of the mark of injury to a horse, as the scar of a broken knee.)

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish

tachec1330

vicec1386

flakec1400

plotc1400

offencec1425

defectc1450

disconformity1505

defection1526

blemish1535

fitch1550

blot1578

flaw1604

tainta1616

mulct1632

smitch1638

scarring1816

out1886

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit xi. 13 Then beganne the blemysh to go out of his eyes, like as it had bene the whyte szkynne of an egg.

1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. ix. 3 A calf and a shepe, both..without blemysh [ Wyclif, wemme, wem; 1611 blemish].

1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 97 Face spots, or blemishes, anoint with the iuce of the rootes.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 24 Speaking thicke (which Nature made his blemish).

1718 Free-thinker No. 37. 2 One never sees the least Blemish of Ink upon his Nails.

1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 500 Nothing hides a blemish so completely as cloth of gold.

2. transferred. A defect, imperfection, flaw, in any object, matter, condition, or work.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw

faultc1320

breckc1369

villainyc1400

offencec1425

defectc1450

defection1526

vitiosity1538

faintness1543

gall1545

eelist1549

mar1551

hole1553

blemish1555

wart1603

flaw1604

mulct1632

wound1646

failurea1656

misfeature1818

bug1875

out1886

1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. i. 23 A moste blessed life without bleamishe of wo.

1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 8 Some imperfections and blemishes may be noted in the setting foorth of it.

1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlv. 169 The minor critic..hunts for blemishes.

1863 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (ed. 2) Pref. 5 The work has now received a careful revision, and it is hoped that..such blemishes are removed.

1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 222 The divine light is without blemish.

3. figurative. A moral defect or stain; a flaw, fault, blot, slur.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur

spota1225

umberc1380

blotc1386

maculate1490

touch1508

blemish1526

blur1548

attaint1592

stain1594

attainder1597

tachec1610

sullya1616

tainta1616

smutch1648

slur1662

woad1663

a blot on an escutcheon1697

blotch1860

smear1943

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riii^v A blemisshe, whiche semeth to disteyne all his vertues.

1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 733 A bleamish in ones good name.

1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 27 No blemish vnto any Gentleman to serue as a common souldier in the Captaines squadron.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 343 Ile giue no blemish to her Honor, none.

1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon i. 51 Some abuses are..rather blemishes than sinnes.

1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 137 If they find Some stain or blemish in a name of note.

†4. Hunting. (See quot.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > track

righta1425

view?1516

persue1530

abature1575

blemish1575

foil1575

marks1575

entry1627

gate1677

file1815

stain1832

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxiv. 94 The same huntsman shall go backe to his blemishes immediatly.

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvii. 98 Blemishes..are the markes which are left to knowe where a Deare hath gone in or out.

1627 J. Taylor Wks. (1630) i. 93/1 Blemishes, Sewelling, Auant-laye, Allaye, Relaye..and a thousand more such Vtopian fragments of confused Gibberish.

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Blemishes, marks made by hunters, to shew where a Deer hath gone.

1721–90 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

blemishv.

Brit.

/ˈblɛmɪʃ/, U.S.

/ˈblɛmɪʃ/

Forms: Middle English blemyss, blemiss, blemess, blemysch, blemysh, Middle English blensch, blench, Middle English blemissh, blemesh, blemysch, Middle English–1500s blemyssh(e, 1500s– blemish. past tense and participle blemished, in Middle English blemest(e, -yst, Middle English blemschyd, 1500s– blemisht.

Etymology: < Old French blemiss-, extended stem of blemir (also blesmir , blaismir , in Provençal blasmar , blesmar ) to render livid or pale, < blaisme , blesme , blême ‘livid, pale,’ of uncertain origin: see Diez, Littré. The syncopated forms blemschyd , blensch , caused partial confusion with blench v.¹

†1. To hurt, damage, do physical damage or injury to, deface. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)]

mareOE

shendOE

hinderc1000

amarOE

awemc1275

noyc1300

touchc1300

bleche1340

blemisha1375

spill1377

misdoa1387

grieve1390

damagea1400

despoil?a1400

matea1400

snapea1400

mankc1400

overthrowa1425

tamec1430

undermine1430

blunder1440

depaira1460

adommage?1473

endamage1477

prejudicec1487

fulyie1488

martyra1500

dyscrase?1504

corrupt1526

mangle1534

danger1538

destroy1542

spoil1563

ruinate1564

ruin1567

wrake1570

injury1579

bane1587

massacre1589

ravish1594

wrong1595

rifle1604

tainta1616

mutilea1618

to do violence toa1625

flaw1665

stun1676

quail1682

maul1694

moil1698

damnify1712

margullie1721

maul1782

buga1790

mux1806

queer1818

batter1840

puckeroo1840

rim-rack1841

pretty1868

garbage1899

savage1899

to do in1905

strafe1915

mash1924

blow1943

nuke1967

mung1969

a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2471 Bi-huld a-boute on his bodi ȝif it blenched were.

?a1400 Morte Arth. 2578 He þet es blemeste with þis brade brande.

c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1421 Wine..Breyþed vppe in to his brayn & blemyst his mynde.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. clv Such Holdes and Castellys as the Scottis by theyr Warrys had blemysshed and apayred.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxv The towne of Boston was greatly blemysshed with fyre.

?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxv. sig. L iij Blemishing all the..lines..drawen with black lead or such like, that you maye easely put oute or rase awaye.

1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 163 He cut off his taile, whereof he gaue no..reason, being demaunded why he so blemished his Beast.

†2. To dim or darken (the eye-sight). Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim

dima1300

blemish1440

troublea1500

misten1599

perstringe1603

blear1605

tara1612

disgregatea1631

purblind1644

obfuscate1656

blast1757

blur1791

bedim1811

1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 39 Blenschyn [1499 blemysshen], obfusco.

1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) iv. x. 173 They blemysshe theyr eye in lokynge ayenst the sonne.

1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. vii. xiv. f. cxc My corporall eye..shalbe blemysshed or derked by the reason of the lyght.

?1677 Lover's Quar. 82 The salt tears blemished his eye.

a. To mar, spoil, or injure the working of.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally

atterc885

hurtc1200

marc1225

appair1297

impair1297

spilla1300

emblemishc1384

endull1395

blemishc1430

depaira1460

depravea1533

deform1533

envenom1533

vitiate1534

quail1551

impeach1563

subvert1565

craze1573

taint1573

spoil1578

endamage1579

qualify1584

stain1584

crack1590

ravish1594

interess1598

invitiate1598

corrupt1602

venom1621

depauperate1623

detriment1623

flaw1623

embase1625

ungold1637

murder1644

refract1646

depress1647

addle1652

sweal1655

butcher1659

shade1813

mess1823

puckeroo1840

untone1861

blue1880

queer1884

dick1972

forgar-

c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 14 Pité blemeshithe the swerd of rightewisnes.

?1554 tr. H. Latimer Protestation in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 980/2 You do blemish the annunciation of the Lords death til he com.

1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 338 That the people be not..troubled..nor the peace blemished.

1635 Wentworth in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 276 III. 282 To overthrowe or at least to blemishe the proceedings.

1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 253 An expedient, which though blemished in the execution, was itself reasonable and prudent.

†b. To disconcert, put out. Cf. blench v.¹ 5.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > disconcert

blemish1544

blank1548

to put out1598

unsettle1644

disconcert1695

to put off1909

to put (someone) off (his) strokea1914

to bend (a person) out of shape1955

to throw off1978

1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr J. Oldcastell in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 264 At this, the archbishopp and hys companye were not a lytle blemyshed.

a. To impair or mar the beauty, soundness, or perfection of; to damage.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] > impair the beauty of

blemisha1500

stain1584

flaw1623

scar1697

a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 296 All blemyshyd is thi ble.

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/1 I blemysshe, I hynder or hurte the beautye of a person.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 128 These eies could neuer indure sweet beauties wrack, You should not blemish them if I stood by.

c1746 J. Hervey Medit. I. 183 Without blemishing their Beauty, or altering their Nature.

b. To impair morally or ideally; to sully, stain, spoil.

ΘΚΠ

society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pollute or defile

afileeOE

awemOE

filec1175

wemc1175

soila1250

foulc1330

defoula1340

bleckc1380

blemishc1380

pollutea1382

tache1390

sulpa1400

vilec1400

spota1413

stain1446

defilec1450

violate1490

tan1530

smear1549

beray1576

moil1596

discolour1598

smut1601

bespurtle1604

sullya1616

commaculatec1616

decolour?c1622

collutulate1623

deturpate1623

berust1631

smutch1640

discolorate1651

smoot1683

tarnish1695

tar1817

dirten1987

c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 178 Coveitise of wickede preestis blemyshiþ hem.

1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 4 Let not the faith..be blemished with partialities.

1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 2 That the extraction of your freedom may no ways blemish it.

1735 W. Oldys Life Raleigh in Wks. (1829) I. 270 Nothing..that might blemish reputation.

1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xx. 301 The admixture of ruffianism which blemishes most loafers.

c. To cast a slur upon, asperse, defame, discredit, disable. Obsolete except in Law.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)]

filea1325

foulc1330

tache1390

dark?c1400

distain1406

smita1413

blemish1414

black?c1425

defoul1470

maculate?a1475

macule1484

tan1530

staina1535

spota1542

smear1549

blot1566

besmear1579

defile1581

attaint1590

soila1596

slubber1599

tack1601

woad1603

besmirch1604

blur1604

to breathe upon ——1608

be-smut1610

clouda1616

sullya1616

taint1623

smutch1640

blackena1649

to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654

beslur1675

tarnish1695

blackwash1762

carbonify1792

smirch1820

tattoo1884

dirten1987

1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms xlvii. 18 Ne with here tungys blemysch my name.

1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 394 To blemish and reproch so many.

c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 193 Blemish not a man that is innocent.

1700 J. Dryden To my Kinsman J. Driden in Fables 94 Not that my Verse wou'd blemish all the Fair.

a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 532 Any thing that would..blemish the management of the treasury.

1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 291 Whether a man should be permitted to blemish himself, by pleading his own insanity.

†5. intransitive. To turn pale, change colour, blench. (Cf. modern French blêmir.) Obsolete. rare. Cf. blench v.²

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (intransitive)] > become or turn pale

blakea1225

fallowa1250

blokec1275

bloknec1315

bleykec1327

blikena1400

falla1450

to paint pale (also white)a1529

blemish1530

appale1534

to turn (one's) colour1548

wan1582

bleak1605

whiten1775

blench1813

etiolate1882

1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/1 I blemysshe, I chaunge colour..Sawe you nat howe he blemysshed at it.

6. A hunting term: see quot. and cf. blemish n. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > other actions of hounds

to be at bayc1515

blemish1575

to give the hare a turn1575

wrench1686

lurch1824

meuse1827

stream1849

smeuse1851

water1855

to run into shot1884

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxix. 104 Blemishing against or ouer the Slot or viewe of the Deare.

1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman Blemish, a hunting term, used when the hounds or beagles, finding where the chase has been, make a proffer to enter but return.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	blemish
释义	blemishn. Brit. /ˈblɛmɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈblɛmɪʃ/ Forms: Also 1500s blemysh, bleamish(e. Etymology: < blemish v. 1. Physical defect or disfigurement; a stain. (Used spec. of the mark of injury to a horse, as the scar of a broken knee.) ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > [noun] > a disfigurement or blemish tachec1330 vicec1386 flakec1400 plotc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 disconformity1505 defection1526 blemish1535 fitch1550 blot1578 flaw1604 tainta1616 mulct1632 smitch1638 scarring1816 out1886 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Tobit xi. 13 Then beganne the blemysh to go out of his eyes, like as it had bene the whyte szkynne of an egg. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Lev. ix. 3 A calf and a shepe, both..without blemysh [ Wyclif, wemme, wem; 1611 blemish]. 1597 W. Langham Garden of Health 97 Face spots, or blemishes, anoint with the iuce of the rootes. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iii. 24 Speaking thicke (which Nature made his blemish). 1718 Free-thinker No. 37. 2 One never sees the least Blemish of Ink upon his Nails. 1827 J. C. Hare & A. W. Hare Guesses at Truth (1873) 2nd Ser. 500 Nothing hides a blemish so completely as cloth of gold. 2. transferred. A defect, imperfection, flaw, in any object, matter, condition, or work. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [noun] > an imperfection > defect or fault or flaw faultc1320 breckc1369 villainyc1400 offencec1425 defectc1450 defection1526 vitiosity1538 faintness1543 gall1545 eelist1549 mar1551 hole1553 blemish1555 wart1603 flaw1604 mulct1632 wound1646 failurea1656 misfeature1818 bug1875 out1886 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions i. i. 23 A moste blessed life without bleamishe of wo. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 8 Some imperfections and blemishes may be noted in the setting foorth of it. 1771 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xlv. 169 The minor critic..hunts for blemishes. 1863 H. Rogers Life J. Howe (ed. 2) Pref. 5 The work has now received a careful revision, and it is hoped that..such blemishes are removed. 1869 J. Martineau Ess. Philos. & Theol. 2nd Ser. 222 The divine light is without blemish. 3. figurative. A moral defect or stain; a flaw, fault, blot, slur. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [noun] > a stain or slur spota1225 umberc1380 blotc1386 maculate1490 touch1508 blemish1526 blur1548 attaint1592 stain1594 attainder1597 tachec1610 sullya1616 tainta1616 smutch1648 slur1662 woad1663 a blot on an escutcheon1697 blotch1860 smear1943 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Riii^v A blemisshe, whiche semeth to disteyne all his vertues. 1574 J. Baret Aluearie B 733 A bleamish in ones good name. 1598 R. Barret Theorike & Pract. Mod. Warres ii. 27 No blemish vnto any Gentleman to serue as a common souldier in the Captaines squadron. a1616 W. Shakespeare Winter's Tale (1623) i. ii. 343 Ile giue no blemish to her Honor, none. View more context for this quotation 1656 J. Bramhall Replic. to Bishop of Chalcedon i. 51 Some abuses are..rather blemishes than sinnes. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Vivien in Idylls of King 137 If they find Some stain or blemish in a name of note. †4. Hunting. (See quot.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > thing hunted or game > [noun] > track righta1425 view?1516 persue1530 abature1575 blemish1575 foil1575 marks1575 entry1627 gate1677 file1815 stain1832 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxiv. 94 The same huntsman shall go backe to his blemishes immediatly. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxvii. 98 Blemishes..are the markes which are left to knowe where a Deare hath gone in or out. 1627 J. Taylor Wks. (1630) i. 93/1 Blemishes, Sewelling, Auant-laye, Allaye, Relaye..and a thousand more such Vtopian fragments of confused Gibberish. 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Blemishes, marks made by hunters, to shew where a Deer hath gone. 1721–90 in N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021). blemishv. Brit. /ˈblɛmɪʃ/, U.S. /ˈblɛmɪʃ/ Forms: Middle English blemyss, blemiss, blemess, blemysch, blemysh, Middle English blensch, blench, Middle English blemissh, blemesh, blemysch, Middle English–1500s blemyssh(e, 1500s– blemish. past tense and participle blemished, in Middle English blemest(e, -yst, Middle English blemschyd, 1500s– blemisht. Etymology: < Old French blemiss-, extended stem of blemir (also blesmir , blaismir , in Provençal blasmar , blesmar ) to render livid or pale, < blaisme , blesme , blême ‘livid, pale,’ of uncertain origin: see Diez, Littré. The syncopated forms blemschyd , blensch , caused partial confusion with blench v.¹ †1. To hurt, damage, do physical damage or injury to, deface. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > damage or injure [verb (transitive)] mareOE shendOE hinderc1000 amarOE awemc1275 noyc1300 touchc1300 bleche1340 blemisha1375 spill1377 misdoa1387 grieve1390 damagea1400 despoil?a1400 matea1400 snapea1400 mankc1400 overthrowa1425 tamec1430 undermine1430 blunder1440 depaira1460 adommage?1473 endamage1477 prejudicec1487 fulyie1488 martyra1500 dyscrase?1504 corrupt1526 mangle1534 danger1538 destroy1542 spoil1563 ruinate1564 ruin1567 wrake1570 injury1579 bane1587 massacre1589 ravish1594 wrong1595 rifle1604 tainta1616 mutilea1618 to do violence toa1625 flaw1665 stun1676 quail1682 maul1694 moil1698 damnify1712 margullie1721 maul1782 buga1790 mux1806 queer1818 batter1840 puckeroo1840 rim-rack1841 pretty1868 garbage1899 savage1899 to do in1905 strafe1915 mash1924 blow1943 nuke1967 mung1969 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 2471 Bi-huld a-boute on his bodi ȝif it blenched were. ?a1400 Morte Arth. 2578 He þet es blemeste with þis brade brande. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1421 Wine..Breyþed vppe in to his brayn & blemyst his mynde. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxiii. f. clv Such Holdes and Castellys as the Scottis by theyr Warrys had blemysshed and apayred. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxv The towne of Boston was greatly blemysshed with fyre. ?a1560 L. Digges Geom. Pract.: Pantometria (1571) i. xxxv. sig. L iij Blemishing all the..lines..drawen with black lead or such like, that you maye easely put oute or rase awaye. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 163 He cut off his taile, whereof he gaue no..reason, being demaunded why he so blemished his Beast. †2. To dim or darken (the eye-sight). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > dim dima1300 blemish1440 troublea1500 misten1599 perstringe1603 blear1605 tara1612 disgregatea1631 purblind1644 obfuscate1656 blast1757 blur1791 bedim1811 1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 39 Blenschyn [1499 blemysshen], obfusco. 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) iv. x. 173 They blemysshe theyr eye in lokynge ayenst the sonne. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. vii. xiv. f. cxc My corporall eye..shalbe blemysshed or derked by the reason of the lyght. ?1677 Lover's Quar. 82 The salt tears blemished his eye. 3. a. To mar, spoil, or injure the working of. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > cause or effect (harm) [verb (transitive)] > do harm or injury to > affect detrimentally atterc885 hurtc1200 marc1225 appair1297 impair1297 spilla1300 emblemishc1384 endull1395 blemishc1430 depaira1460 depravea1533 deform1533 envenom1533 vitiate1534 quail1551 impeach1563 subvert1565 craze1573 taint1573 spoil1578 endamage1579 qualify1584 stain1584 crack1590 ravish1594 interess1598 invitiate1598 corrupt1602 venom1621 depauperate1623 detriment1623 flaw1623 embase1625 ungold1637 murder1644 refract1646 depress1647 addle1652 sweal1655 butcher1659 shade1813 mess1823 puckeroo1840 untone1861 blue1880 queer1884 dick1972 forgar- c1430 J. Lydgate Minor Poems (1840) 14 Pité blemeshithe the swerd of rightewisnes. ?1554 tr. H. Latimer Protestation in J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (1563) 980/2 You do blemish the annunciation of the Lords death til he com. 1625 H. Finch Law (1636) 338 That the people be not..troubled..nor the peace blemished. 1635 Wentworth in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. ii. 276 III. 282 To overthrowe or at least to blemishe the proceedings. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iii. 253 An expedient, which though blemished in the execution, was itself reasonable and prudent. †b. To disconcert, put out. Cf. blench v.¹ 5. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > confuse, bewilder [verb (transitive)] > disconcert blemish1544 blank1548 to put out1598 unsettle1644 disconcert1695 to put off1909 to put (someone) off (his) strokea1914 to bend (a person) out of shape1955 to throw off1978 1544 J. Bale Brefe Chron. Syr J. Oldcastell in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 264 At this, the archbishopp and hys companye were not a lytle blemyshed. 4. a. To impair or mar the beauty, soundness, or perfection of; to damage. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > disfigurement > disfigure [verb (transitive)] > impair the beauty of blemisha1500 stain1584 flaw1623 scar1697 a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1994) I. xxiii. 296 All blemyshyd is thi ble. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/1 I blemysshe, I hynder or hurte the beautye of a person. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 128 These eies could neuer indure sweet beauties wrack, You should not blemish them if I stood by. c1746 J. Hervey Medit. I. 183 Without blemishing their Beauty, or altering their Nature. b. To impair morally or ideally; to sully, stain, spoil. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > pollute or defile afileeOE awemOE filec1175 wemc1175 soila1250 foulc1330 defoula1340 bleckc1380 blemishc1380 pollutea1382 tache1390 sulpa1400 vilec1400 spota1413 stain1446 defilec1450 violate1490 tan1530 smear1549 beray1576 moil1596 discolour1598 smut1601 bespurtle1604 sullya1616 commaculatec1616 decolour?c1622 collutulate1623 deturpate1623 berust1631 smutch1640 discolorate1651 smoot1683 tarnish1695 tar1817 dirten1987 c1380 Eng. Wycliffite Serm. in Sel. Wks. I. 178 Coveitise of wickede preestis blemyshiþ hem. 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie Pref. 4 Let not the faith..be blemished with partialities. 1660 R. Boyle Seraphic Love 2 That the extraction of your freedom may no ways blemish it. 1735 W. Oldys Life Raleigh in Wks. (1829) I. 270 Nothing..that might blemish reputation. 1866 W. D. Howells Venetian Life xx. 301 The admixture of ruffianism which blemishes most loafers. c. To cast a slur upon, asperse, defame, discredit, disable. Obsolete except in Law. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > stain or sully [verb (transitive)] filea1325 foulc1330 tache1390 dark?c1400 distain1406 smita1413 blemish1414 black?c1425 defoul1470 maculate?a1475 macule1484 tan1530 staina1535 spota1542 smear1549 blot1566 besmear1579 defile1581 attaint1590 soila1596 slubber1599 tack1601 woad1603 besmirch1604 blur1604 to breathe upon ——1608 be-smut1610 clouda1616 sullya1616 taint1623 smutch1640 blackena1649 to cast, put, throw (etc.) a slur on or upon (a person or thing)1654 beslur1675 tarnish1695 blackwash1762 carbonify1792 smirch1820 tattoo1884 dirten1987 1414 T. Brampton Paraphr. Seven Penit. Psalms xlvii. 18 Ne with here tungys blemysch my name. 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church 394 To blemish and reproch so many. c1665 L. Hutchinson Mem. Col. Hutchinson (1973) 193 Blemish not a man that is innocent. 1700 J. Dryden To my Kinsman J. Driden in Fables 94 Not that my Verse wou'd blemish all the Fair. a1715 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Own Time (1724) I. 532 Any thing that would..blemish the management of the treasury. 1768 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. II. 291 Whether a man should be permitted to blemish himself, by pleading his own insanity. †5. intransitive. To turn pale, change colour, blench. (Cf. modern French blêmir.) Obsolete. rare. Cf. blench v.² ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > skin > complexion > paleness > [verb (intransitive)] > become or turn pale blakea1225 fallowa1250 blokec1275 bloknec1315 bleykec1327 blikena1400 falla1450 to paint pale (also white)a1529 blemish1530 appale1534 to turn (one's) colour1548 wan1582 bleak1605 whiten1775 blench1813 etiolate1882 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 457/1 I blemysshe, I chaunge colour..Sawe you nat howe he blemysshed at it. 6. A hunting term: see quot. and cf. blemish n. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > hunting with hounds > work done by hounds > action of hounds [verb (intransitive)] > other actions of hounds to be at bayc1515 blemish1575 to give the hare a turn1575 wrench1686 lurch1824 meuse1827 stream1849 smeuse1851 water1855 to run into shot1884 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxix. 104 Blemishing against or ouer the Slot or viewe of the Deare. 1792 W. Osbaldiston Brit. Sportsman Blemish, a hunting term, used when the hounds or beagles, finding where the chase has been, make a proffer to enter but return. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1526v.a1375
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