单词 | bodied |
释义 | bodiedadj. 1. a. Having a body or trunk; usually with an adjective, forming a parasynthetic combination, as big-bodied, able-bodied adj. and n., etc. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > external parts of body > trunk > [adjective] bodieda1547 truncal1847 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Civv Lyke to the aged boysterous bodyed oke. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) iv. ii. 20 He is deformed..Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse euery where. View more context for this quotation 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes II. ix. iii. 1421 The women in Camienitz goe with their Coates close bodied. a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) London 194 He [sc. unicorn] is commonly pictured, bodyed like a Buck. 1729 T. Cooke Tales 121 Light body'd Cranes. 1864 R. D. Blackmore Clara Vaughan I. i. xv. 122 Of moderate stature, gauntly bodied, and loosely built. b. Having substance, strength, consistency, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > density or solidity > state of being thick enough to retain form > [adjective] bodied1612 consisting1626 consistent1647 stable1666 constanta1691 1612 J. Speed Theatre of Empire of Great Brit. i. x. 19/1 Springs..gathering stil strength with more Branches, lastly growe bodied able to beare Ships into the Land. 1647 J. Howell New Vol. of Lett. 144 The most firme, the best bodied and lastingest wine. 2. Endowed with material form or being; made corporeal or material; embodied. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > [adjective] > concrete > embodied incorporate1398 incarnate?1533 incorporated1644 bodied1647 vehicular1652 embodied1665 vehiculateda1692 incarnated1872 1647 J. Hall Poems i. 39 Ne're a body'd nothing shall perceive How we unite, how we together cleave. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iii. 144 Bodied or bodiless, it is the one fact important for all men:—but to Dante, in that age, it was bodied in fixed certainty of scientific shape. 1855 R. Browning One Word More xvii, in Men & Women II. 239 Like the bodied heaven in his clearness Shone the stone. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.a1547 |
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