bloodlessadj.

OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 56 Ða ðe synd gefegede of blode.., þa synd þreora cynna: hic et haec exsanguis et hoc exsangue blodleas.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Margaret (Bodl.) (1934) 42 Þu witlese wiht wurchest, as þu art wurðe, blodles & banles, dumbe & deaue baðe.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (1973) 113 He ȝelt þe wurðmunt to un-witlese þing..& hersumeð seheliche schaftes & blodles & banles, & leomen buten liue.

c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Gouernaunce of Princis (1993) xxvii. 101 Ane ald wyf bludelas but naturale hete jn hir, is calde and dry—nakit and trembland.

1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Bloudles, or wythout bloude.

1658 W. Johnson tr. F. Würtz Surgeons Guid iii. xiii. 256 These things..do befall wounds, exiccated by the Suns heat..insomuch that they are left bloudless.

1708 Coles's Eng. Dict. (new ed.) Exanguinous, bloodless.

1801 T. Campbell Hohenlinden 1 On Linden, when the sun was low, All bloodless lay the untrodden snow.

1841 Medico-chirurg. Trans. 24 41 The lungs, liver, kidney, and brain were in a healthy condition, but bloodless. The heart and larger vessels entirely empty.

1853 C. Brontë Villette I. viii. 139 When once a bloodless and rustless instrument was found, she was careful of the prize.

1899 Daily News 17 Apr. 4/3 The idea was that the soul was a little bloodless, fleshless thing.

1959 Daily Tel. 24 Apr. 13/3 This [heart-lung machine]..enables the operating surgeon to work on a heart which is bloodless, clear and stopped.

2006 M. Pollan Omnivore's Dilemma i. 16 The cows and pigs increasingly come subdivided into boneless and bloodless geometrical cuts.

c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 113 Þan she is alle pale and bloodles.

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes sig. T.i White, all white his bloodlesse face wil be.

1594 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 2 iii. ii. 162 A timely parted ghost, Of ashie semblance, pale and bloodlesse.

1609 J. Davies Holy Roode sig. E1 See how the sweat fals from his bloodlesse Browes.

1665 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 1 87 The whole Body was bloudless, thin and emaciated.

1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xiii. 365 He stands..a bloodless Image of Despair.

1798 M. A. Hanway Ellinor IV. ix. 189 He saw her bloodless countenance drop meek and resigned on her folded arms.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre III. ii. 74 She is worn to nothing. How very thin, and how very bloodless!

1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 45 She knotted her hands behind her In a knot of bloodless gray.

1928 C. S. Whitehead & C. A. Hoff Ethical Sex Relations (new ed.) i. vii. 256 The lips are bloodless; the skin is often cold, clammy and almost colorless.

1948 R. Chandler Let. 27 Sept. (1987) 130 Long shapely almost bloodless fingers.

1989 R. Frame Penelope's Hat ii. iii. 36 His complexion was bloodless—as if he had received some unlooked for and particularly nasty shock to his system.

1634 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World (new ed.) I. xi. xxxviii. 346 Those beasts which haue more than 4 feet, are bloudlesse.]

1651 A. Ross Arcana Microcosmi ii. v. 63 None [sc. no sensitive creature] can live without the Heart, or something answering to the Heart, as bloodlesse animals.

1683 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Two Disc. Soul of Brutes i. iii. 13 After the bloodless Brutes, their second Class, and of a little higher degree, is that of the more cold bloody Creatures.

1694 R. Blome tr. A. Le Grand Entire Body Philos. vii. xxii. 261/1 Aristotle reckons up 4 kinds of Bloodless Animals: Such as are soft... Such as are cover'd with a hard Shell, and difficult to be broken... Such as are cover'd with a Shell that is brittle and easily broken... And, Lastly, Insects.

1806 G. Shaw Gen. Zool. VI. i. 4 The ancients..entertained an idea that Insects were destitute of blood; for which reason they called them animalia exsanguia or bloodless animals.

1875 Cincinnati Q. Jrnl. Sci. Jan. 79 He [sc. Aristotle] had divided the animal kingdom into the Enanima and Anima, or blooded and bloodless animals. But he failed to provide any well defined system of classification.

1909 H. S. Williams Every-day Sci. I. 187 The bloodless animals were also divided by Aristotle into five classes.

1987 D. M. Balme in A. Gotthelf & J. G. Lennox Philos. Issues in Aristotle's Biol. iv. x. 310 Animal is terrestrial or marine, and blooded or bloodless, and legged or legless.

c1225 (?c1200) St. Katherine (Royal) (1981) 600 An anlepi meiden..haueð swa bitauelet ow..þet al ȝe beoð blodles, bikimet of ow-seoluen.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III i. ii. 7 Thou bloudlesse remnant of that royall bloud. View more context for this quotation

1612 Mr. King tr. Benvenuto Passenger ii. ii. 529 Why then he is a bloudlesse Souldier.

a1683 A. Sidney Disc. Govt. (1698) ii. §xii. 115 Tho the Empire was by this means grown weak and bloodless, yet it could not fall on a sudden.

1746 C. Macklin Henry VII ii. iii. 30 The Englishman, who signs to these, must sure Be bloodless.—And bloodless may each Briton be E're that Day come.

1818 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 494/2 A ghost rising out of a cold clammy grave could not have been more woe-begone, spiritless, bloodless.

1892 E. Blum & S. B. Alexander Who Lies? i. 24 Compare our brawny, long-lived ancestors with..the weak, bloodless and scrofulous hordes of the masses [of today].

1932 A. Nin Let. 3 Feb. in A. Nin & H. Miller Literate Passion (1989) 2 Dijon is not nearly as interesting. It is mesquin, meager, bloodless, small, petty.

1991 J. Wolf Daughter of Red Deer i. ii. 16 The men of this tribe must be bloodless weaklings.

?c1622 E. Bolton Hypercritica (1722) iii. ii. 219 It is otherwise an Affliction for those Minds..to turn over so many musty Rolls, so many dry, bloodless Chronicles, and so many dull, and heavy paced Histories.

1861 Museum Oct. 309 The student also will take up the peculiarities of μεν, and δε..with a truth, a precision, and a facility of which no dry, bloodless teaching by abstract rules can give the slightest conception.

1881 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 25 Dec. 8/3 Very tame and bloodless performances.

1928 Musical Times 69 893/1 The music produced is bloodless, dry, rationally constructed.

1977 Salt Lake Tribune 18 Jan. 15/4 Although couched in the careful, bloodless prose professionals use when they criticize colleagues, they [sc. the findings] were shocking.

1993 J. D. Klier in E. Mendelsohn Mod. Jews & their Musical Agenda 184 It might seem impossible to write a boring book about Soviet Jewry, but this one is strangely bloodless and dry.

2006 Sight & Sound Sept. 42/3 François Truffaut..excoriated the proficient, bloodless cinéma de papa in his youth only to become a paid-up member of it in middle age.

1794 C. Smith Banished Man III. ix. 184 Not daring to trust himself to talk on business in which even his own callous bloodless heart tells him he is wrong, he refers me to a wretch, whose unprincipled villainy is notorious.

1838 C. S. M. Bury Murdered Queen! xii. 96 Poor Davies..was so wrought upon by wrongs originating in the bloodless scoundrel..that he became insane and died in a madhouse.

1878 University Mag. (Dublin) Aug. 153/1 The cold and bloodless cruelty of this is to me intolerable.

1901 Bookman Feb. 562/1 Between then and breakfast, no news of you..and I still alive! Oh, the endurance of the human heart! The bloodless inhumanity of our postal system!

1966 Jet 2 June 43 The aim was to present me as a..stupid, smug, uninvolved bloodless, cold-eyed housewife.

1991 D. Coupland Generation X i. vii. 38 Your father looks like he's had a heart attack or something. Aren't you being slightly, oh, I don't know..bloodless about the matter?

2009 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 7 Feb. (Books section) 22 The Ritchie who emerges from the early diaries is cool, clever, observant, but also bloodless, spoilt, cold hearted.