单词 | stark blind |
释义 | stark blindadj. Completely blind. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > blind star-blindeOE bissonc950 blind-bornc975 blindc1000 darkOE purblinda1325 sightlessa1325 start blinda1387 stark blinda1425 stone-blindc1480 beetle-blind1556 beetle1566 eyeless?1570 purblinded1572 high-gravel-blind1600 not-seeing?1602 kind-blind1608 bat-blind1609 unseeing1609 blindful1621 winking-eyed1621 lamplessa1625 deocular1632 lightless1638 bat-eyed1656 stock-blind1675 duncha1692 gazelessa1819 visionlessa1821 blind-eyed1887 stone-eyed1890 unsighted1983 a1425 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 1900) (1871) III. 97 Stark blynde [a1387 St. John's Cambr. He put out his eiȝen in Reblata, and lad hym in Babilon streiȝt blynde; c1400 Tiber., c1410 BL Add. start; L. oculis privatum]. a1475 (a1400) in Neuphilol. Mitteilungen (1973) 74 265 With yat word as I fynd He fel doun stark blynd. a1535 T. More Dialoge of Comfort (1553) i. iiii. sig. A.viiiv Christ..threw him to the ground, and strake him starke blynde. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. viii. sig. G8v The fruitfull-headed beast, amazd At flashing beames of that sunshiny shield, Became stark blind. 1623 E. Chaloner Sixe Serm. 347 If they want teeth, they would not envy those which eate with them, nor contemne the eyes of Goats, if themselves be..starkeblinde. 1666 J. Davies tr. C. de Rochefort Hist. Caribby-Islands 251 In the Streets they have met with many one-eyed, and many stark blind people. 1781 W. Cowper Charity 404 She sees a world stark blind to what employs Her eager thought. 1825 Hampshire Tel. & Sussex Chron. 14 Mar. A person who purchased one of them for 20l., subsequently perceived the animal was stark blind. 1870 Royal Cornwall Gaz. 7 May 7/2 We are two unfortunate women. My husband is stark blind, and Bessie Uren's is not much better. 1927 Piqua (Ohio) Daily Call 12 Jan. 6/8 In the 19th round I went stark blind. I thought someone was trifling with the lamps. 2003 Times of India 16 Aug. 12/4 How did Ved Mehta, stark blind, know that Raj Narain was wearing a green scarf on his head? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † stark blindv. Obsolete. transitive. To render completely blind. Usually in passive.Frequently figurative in religious contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > afflict with disordered vision [verb (transitive)] > blind blendc888 forblendc1175 blindfoldc1320 to put out a person's eyesc1325 blinda1400 dark?c1400 darken?a1425 quenchc1450 excecate?1540 stark blind1574 beblind1575 douta1616 unsight?1615 benight1621 emblind1631 occaecate1664 1574 T. Tymme in tr. J. de Serres Three Partes Comm. Ciuill Warres Fraunce sig. bii/v The Christian church, that sore astonyed stoode, Among the superstitious troupes, of Antichristian foes, Starke blinded with the Popes delights. a1586 P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella in Countesse of Pembrokes Arcadia (1598) 557 If those eyes you praised, be Half so deere as you to me, Let me home returne, starke blinded Of those eyes, and blinder minded. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Triumph of Faith in tr. Deuine Weekes & Wks. 571 By Faith, Saint Paule stark-blinded Elymas. 1655 R. Baxter Christs Witness within Us xx. sig. K3v, in Vnreasonableness of Infidelity If men were not stark blinded by the Father of delusions, they could never imagine that God hath discharged them from submission. 1873 J. Bowring Memorial Vol. Sacred Poetry 49 Why is the uptending reason kept In some foul prison, dreary, dark? Why must we sleep as those who slept, Stark-blinded, to the heavenly spark? 1915 A. O'Malley Sonnets of Recluse II. 59 They beheld the horrid heath, With bodies strewn and gold, the ship beneath There sunk stark blinded with the wind and hail. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1425v.1574 |
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