单词 | sullied |
释义 | sulliedadj. a. Soiled, polluted (literal and figurative); †made gloomy or dull. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [adjective] solc1200 soileda1250 suddly1488 sullied1571 smirched1600 besmircheda1616 smutted1622 moiled1632 soily1677 smutched1785 besoiled1834 smirchy1889 the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > made dark or gloomy sullied1571 obumbrated1592 sombred1873 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > polluted or defiled wemmed1382 defouledc1440 defiled1530 spotteda1535 gleetous1535 commaculate1570 dreggy1593 inquinated?1593 sullied1683 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disrepute > damage to reputation > sullying or staining of reputation > [adjective] > stained or sullied smoterlyc1405 spotted?a1425 maculate1490 blotted1596 staineda1628 maculated1646 sullied1683 tarnished1716 besmirched1864 1571 [see sulliedness n. at Derivatives]. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets xv. sig. B4 To change your day of youth to sullied night. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion x. 161 Her sullied face. 1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 320 A loathsomely sullied Soul, and an indisposed distempered Body. 1696 A. Telfair New Confut. Sadducism 7 Seven small Bones..wrapp'd up in a piece of old sullied Paper. 1749 tr. C. Rollin Anc. Hist. (ed. 3) VII. 216 The moon..appeared afterwards quite sullied, and, as it were, tinctured with blood. 1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet II. xiii. 312 He wore a smart hanger and a pair of pistols in a sullied sword belt. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood i. 3 The choir are getting on their sullied white robes. 1889 R. Bridges Growth of Love lii Let the true Muse rewrite her sullied page. b. sullied white adj. dirty white. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > named colours > white or whiteness > [noun] > off-white or dirty white sheep's-colour1551 whey-colour1662 sullied white1681 crash1927 off-white1927 natural1930 1681 London Gaz. No. 1676/4 A very large Irish Greyhound being of a sullied White, with some pale yellowish spots. 1817 J. F. Stephens Shaw's Gen. Zool. X. ii. 493 The under parts of the body sullied white: the tail greenish black. DerivativesΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [noun] > polluted or defiled condition sulliedness1571 impurity1598 defiledness1607 dregginess1608 drossiness1638 feculency1651 feculence1733 branfulness1879 1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (lxviii. 15) Although the land were covered with solyednesse throughe the troublous invasion of the enemies: yit..it recovered hir whitenesse, so as it became as whyte as snowe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < adj.1571 |
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