单词 | smallpoxed |
释义 | smallpoxedadj. 1. Scarred by (or as if by) smallpox; pockmarked. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [adjective] > affected with smallpox pockishc1567 variolous1668 smallpoxed1734 1734 J. Serenius Dictionarium Anglo-Svethico-Latinum sig. Ss2v/2 Pitted with the small-pox,..small-poxed. 1774 Westm. Mag. 2 281 A man must have a daring front to attack these small-poxed Muses. 1858 W. Elder Biogr. Elisha Kent Kane 69 There was a small smallpoxed mandarin, a man of might. 1893 W. C. Russell Romance of Transport 253 The mate..stood staring at the repulsive, massive, smallpoxed face and wonderful figure of the prize-fighter with looks of dread and aversion. 1922 H. Baerlein House Fighting-cocks i. 27 It was Gonzalez, owner of the shop, who flung himself into the house, and his queer, smallpoxed face was working agitatedly. 1952 Landfall Mar. 28 The smallpoxed plaster walls of the railway station that the English had shelled from the sea. 2003 F. A. Nussbaum Limits of Human iv. 131 Unusual women, ugly, smallpoxed, deformed, physically impaired, or mentally deficient, are indices..to the gendering of virtue. 2. Infected or inoculated with smallpox. ΚΠ 1828 H. Edmondston Observ. Cowpox 77 Vaccinated infants escaping, though suckled by their smallpoxed mothers. 1862 Sat. Rev. 5 July 9/1 The device said to have been resorted to by General Halleck for weakening Beauregard's army, by the present of 300 smallpoxed prisoners, is quite as unique in its way as the New Orleans proclamation. 1885 Vaccination Inquirer & Health Rev. 6 212/1 The vaccinated or inoculated—that is, small-poxed—person is a real centre of contagion. 1912 Med. Cent. 19 137/2 That epidemic started with a vaccinated and previously small-poxed, i.e., doubly protected tramp. 1922 J. R. Marsh Charm of Middle Kingdom xiii. 195 I rode through smallpoxed villages where all those not dead were living. 2007 D. E. Shuttleton Smallpox & Literary Imagination 80 Characterised by porosity and protuberance, the smallpoxed body presented the helpless onlooker with what Bakhtin..considered ‘the artistic logic of the grotesque image’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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