单词 | spoused |
释义 | spousedadj.n. A. adj. Married, wedded; joined in marriage; given as a spouse (literal and figurative); (also) betrothed, engaged; = espoused adj. In later use also: having a spouse. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [adjective] wedded?a800 spousedc1300 weda1400 marriedc1400 boundenc1426 conjugate1471 nuptial?1585 yoked1607 continuous1642 wedlock-bound1667 coupled1672 conjugated1690 partnered1775 mated1821 attached1898 society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal and/or marriage > [adjective] spousedc1300 sure1470 espoused1548 vowed1577 c1300 St. Lucy (Laud) l. 94 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 103 Mine spousede louerd Ihesu crist. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 28264 Mi spussed wyfe i haue misledd Bath in burdyng and in bedde. c1480 (a1400) St. James Less 314 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 159 A voyce sal be ha[r]d wele rath one spowsit men & wemen bath. a1500 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Rawl.) (1896) 121 [They] myghten neuer haue childe of her Spousyd wyues. 1522 in Rec. Parl. Scotl. to 1707 (2007) A1522/2/1 To seperate himselff fra his aun spousit wyff. 1588 A. King tr. P. Canisius Cathechisme or Schort Instr. 116 Vnto ye faithfull spoused persones is..giuen fruictfulnes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. x. sig. I5v The eldest two..Fidelia and Speranza virgins were, Though spousd, yet wanting wedlocks solemnize. 1616 B. Jonson Epigrammes v, in Wks. I. 770 The world the temple was,..The spoused paire two realmes. 1654 E. Gayton Pleasant Notes Don Quixot iv. xxiv. 280 Now all the plot and chiefe contrivance, Was how to get his spoused wife—hence. ?1695 Rainy Bow in Babes in Wood (single sheet) I who am thy spoused Wife, May gladly meet with thee, Lord. a1821 J. Keats Otho iii. ii, in R. M. Milnes Life, Lett. & Lit. Remains Keats (1848) II. 164 Do you stand possess'd Of any proof against the honourableness Of Lady Auranthe, our new-spoused daughter? 1858 H. W. Beecher & E. D. Proctor Life Thoughts 248 If Christ had not been the absolute one, he would have said, ‘I am the moon, shining by night, but my spoused one,..shines by day.’ 1908 T. W. H. Crosland Little Stings 7 The prince managed to pass for a man who was ordinarily spoused. 1984 E. Jong Parachutes & Kisses xviii. 360 Why were the women writers all spouseless and the men amply spoused? 2005 Calgary Herald (Nexis) 7 Jan. (Swerve section) 24 To the chagrin of my spoused friends, I've grown weary of the ‘If this is Tuesday, you must be Shari’ scene. B. n. Originally: †a married person; a person to whom someone is married or (occasionally) has been given as a spouse (obsolete). Later (with the and plural agreement): married people. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > married person > [noun] > married people weddedc1230 spouseda1400 wedmana1500 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) 2898 Sibbe ne spused tak yee nan. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 10170 Tuix ani spused and his wijf. 1608 B. Jonson Descr. Masque Visct. Haddington 387 in Characters Two Royall Masques In the happy choyce, The Spouse, & Spoused haue the formost voyce! 1968 T. B. Stroup Relig. Rite & Ceremony in Milton's Poetry ii. 30 After Adam has, to waken her, whispered his imitation of the Song of Solomon into Eve's ear, the newly spoused say their Morning Prayer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1300 |
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