单词 | subduing |
释义 | subduingn. The action or process of subdue v.; the fact of being subdued; subjugation. Also: an instance of this. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [noun] subduingc1450 subjugationa1456 subdue1483 subjecting1585 overwielding1597 subordinatinga1600 yoking1602 vassalizing1607 subduement1609 captivating1623 subdual1641 envassaling1642 envassalage1652 subjuging1660 subduction1670 the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > [noun] earth-tilthOE earth-tillingOE tilling?c1225 delving1377 laboura1393 land-tillingc1420 culturec1450 tilthing1495 labouring1523 manurea1547 manuring1550 digging1552 cultivation1553 tilth1565 manurance1572 agriculture1583 nithering1599 culturation1606 gainor1607 delvage1610 agricolation1623 gainage1625 cultivage1632 manurementa1639 groundwork1655 fieldwork1656 proscission1656 field labour1661 manuragea1670 subduing1776 management1799 subjugation1800 geopony1808 clodhopping1847 agriculturism1885 c1450 tr. G. Boccaccio De Claris Mulieribus (1924) l. 1739 (MED) The Rodyans..Come to conquere, in hope..Without resistence to haue the victory; The prudent quene [of the Carians], this vndirstondynge, Commaundid hir people redy to be And symell, as thei made subduynge [L. eisque spem dedicionis facerent], Receyuynge the Rodyans in-to their cyte. ?1482 J. Kay tr. G. Caoursin Siege of Rhodes The subduyng & oppressyng of the..cytee of Constantynople. 1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 371 The subduyng of ye flesh and taming of bodily lustes. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Macc. xiv. 34 What so euer was mete for the subduynge of the aduersaries. 1655 A. Hume in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1897) III. 213 A combination made between France and Cromwell for the subduing of all the Spanish provinces of the Low Countries. 1690 J. Child Disc. Trade Pref. sig. A8v The subduing of Interest will bring in multitudes of Traders. 1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. III. lxi. 326 The easy subduing of this insurrection..was a singular felicity to the protector. 1776 Ld. Kames Gentleman Farmer i. i. 16 None of them [sc. harrows] are sufficient to prepare for the seed any ground that requires subduing. 1842 tr. J. G. Kohl Russia xi. 91 To the rock-climbing he has superadded the subduing of a serpent. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 335/1 For the more speedy subduing of a rough uncultured surface. 1930 Times Lit. Suppl. 18 Dec. 1078/3 What is now called ‘biological control’, the subduing of a living pest by the introduction of a living enemy of the pest. 2011 Sunday Times (Nexis) 30 Jan. (Sport section) 10 Murray's sweatily protracted subduing of his semi-final opponent. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). subduingadj. That subdues (in various senses of the verb); tending to subdue. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [adjective] mastering1590 subduing1608 subjectionala1617 subordinatinga1635 subordinative1642 captivating1675 taming1697 subjecting1760 mancipating1819 the world > action or operation > prosperity > success > mastery or superiority > [adjective] > overcoming or overwhelming > that subdues: tending to subdue subduing1608 1608 D. Tuvill Ess. Politicke, & Morall f. 66v To polish and fashion out his then rough-hewen fortune, with the edge of his subduing sword. 1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 250 Cyrus..[with] Harpagus..were ministerial together in the subduing Astyages. 1700 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury June 199 Signor Pignatelli will not gain so easie a Conquest in the Conversion of this Princess, as is expected at the Court of Rome from his subduing Eloquence. 1774 W. Richardson Poems 57 The power of her subduing smile. 1815 J. Scott Visit to Paris ix. 147 A stimulating melange of what is most heating, intoxicating, and subduing. 1842 H. E. Manning Serm. xvi. 228 Not because they are under any subduing dominion of indwelling sin. 1892 A. Conan Doyle Adventures Sherlock Holmes ii. 51 There was something depressing and subduing in the sudden gloom. 1942 Pop. Mech. Jan. 176/2 A subduing influence..extends from blue through violet and into purple. 2000 P. Kerr Mañana Mañana (2003) vi. 113 I raised a subduing hand. ‘Just have patience, OK?’ Derivatives subˈduingly adv. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > subjecting or subjugation > [adverb] subduingly1797 1797 Henry Somerville I. ix. 108 Her elegant form, folded in muslin, and relieved, all subduingly relieved, by the verdure on which she trod. 1833 New Monthly Mag. 37 301 What goes more subduingly to the heart than the author's poem to his sick child? 1916 J. Gliebe Cardinal Newman's Dream of Gerontius 92 How subduingly tender and affectionate the words of parting! 2003 R. Katz & R. HaCohen Tuning Mind iii. 95 A piercing chromatic shift,..which then subduingly leads back to the more relaxed subdominant area of F minor. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1450adj.1608 |
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