单词 | bloodstained |
释义 | bloodstainedadj. Stained with blood. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] > stained > stained or smeared with blood redOE bloodyOE drearyOE weta1300 bloodedc1300 bleedingc1305 forbled1387 gory?a1500 cruent1524 purpled1561 brued1563 beweltered1565 bloodied1566 beblubbered1582 purple1590 bloodstained1594 ensanguined1628 blood-bedabbled1629 cruentous1648 cruentate1661 begored1683 sanguined1700 bluggy1876 1594 W. Shakespeare Titus Andronicus ii. iii. 210 Why dost not comfort me and help me out From this vnhollow, and blood stained hole. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 i. iii. 106 Swift Seuerns floud..Bloud-stained with these valiant combatants. View more context for this quotation 1609 T. Heywood Troia Britanica xi. 254 Whilst these two Kings contend, the Greekes retire, And backe into the blood-stain'd Sea are driuen. 1665 J. Crowne Pandion & Amphigenia 236 But though he can part from me, and exchange a spotless affection, for a little blood-stained honor..yet I could not see a tear drop from his eyes. 1726 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xv. 301 The blood-stain'd exile, ever doom'd to roam. 1778 R. Cumberland Battle of Hastings i. i. 13 Are these the soft habiliments of love? This high proud plumage, these blood-stained arms? 1826 Lancet 22 Apr. 125/1 Why should some men be allowed to wear, nay, even to glory, in their blood-stained laurels? 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad I. x. 303 O'er his shoulders threw the blood-stained hide. 1903 G. T. Vaughan Princ. & Pract. Surg. i. xx. 176 It appears in the form of large pustules filled with turbid or blood-stained pus. 1954 W. Lewis Self Condemned iii. xxx. 371 Topmost was the bloodstained head of Hester, lying on its side. 2004 New Statesman (Nexis) 1 Nov. A work of art of the Tracey Emin school that displayed, spread out on a bloodstained sheet, artefacts involved in a suicide. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1594 |
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