单词 | taken |
释义 | takenadj. That is or has been taken (in various senses of take v.). ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > attractiveness > [adjective] > attracted to taken1535 enthralleda1652 the mind > possession > taking > [adjective] taken1561 the mind > possession > taking > taking possession > [adjective] occupied1483 forestalled1543 taken1561 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxvii. 33 Who þann is he þat now riȝt brouȝte to me huntyng taken [L. captam venationem]? a1425 (c1340) R. Rolle Comm. on Canticles (Laud) in Psalter (1884) 522 Nakyd heuyd he seys at the lyknyng of takyn prysuns in conqueryng, the whilk was wont to be shauyn the heuyd, & so solde. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) III. 430 The tane men als the takaris did exceid. 1561 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 177 Greit partis of the takin gudis wer disponit in Argyle. 1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice i. 148 The Venetian brought backe his victorious Armie to Ptolomais, dragging after him the taken Gallies. 1659 J. Milton Civil Power in Wks. (1851) V. 331 If any man be offended at the conscientious liberty of another, it is a taken scandal not a given. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 56 Some..Stumble, and let fall the taken Prize. 1753 E. Young Brothers i. 13 When I had shook the Walls of Marena, You pluckt me thence, and took the taken Town. 1831 W. Scott Count Robert iv, in Tales of my Landlord 4th Ser. III. 88 Did not my heart throb in my bosom with all the agitation of a taken bird..? 1884 Gospel Standard Mar. 137 Instead of being one of the taken ones, she was left. 1904 H. James Golden Bowl (1905) I. ii. xxii. 252 The small intellectual fillip of a discerned relation between a given appearance and a taken meaning. 1975 H. G. Furth & H. Wachs Thinking goes to School xii. 231 The same game is played, but the taken marbles are not put back into the dish. 2012 T. Lindhorst & J. L. Edleson Battered Women, their Children & Internat. Law iv. 103 The taken children are not the only perceived victims in parental abductions. Compounds C1. With adverbs, corresponding to phrasal verbs at take v. Phrasal verbs 1, as taken-in, taken-on, taken-up, etc. ΚΠ ?1574 C. Vitell tr. ‘Fidelitas’ Distinct Declar. Requiring of Lorde i. sig. A3v Their taken-on Knowledge of the godlie Thinges. 1607 T. Rogers Faith, Doctr., & Relig. 110 Our Lyturgies..they call Foolishnes of taken on seruices. 1616 B. Jonson Love Restored in Wks. I. 992 Ladies..in their flaunting wyres, and tyres, lac'd gownes, embroydred petti-coats, and other taken-vp braueries. 1644 S. Rutherford Lex, Rex xxiii. 204 It is no perjurie in the King to resume a taken away power. 1771 T. Breaks Compl. Syst. Land-surveying viii. ii. 319 Take off your Paper, and put a new Sheet on the Table, on which lay the taken-off Sheet towards the contrary End of the Table. 1840 J. Gaugain Lady's Assistant 11 Take in back stitch of three, by slipping off backwards without working the first,..lift over the first slipped one over the taken-in loop. 1869 Daily News 2 Jan. 2/6 His lordship would hardly believe that though there certainly was a million nominally there, it was but the million at which the taken-over accounts were estimated, and that it was worth not a farthing. 1908 Lancet 17 Oct. 1167/2 Take out one [accumulator] and replace it by a fully charged one, the taken out one being left at an electric light station for charging. 1945 S. Cheney Men who have walked with God v. 165 There is more of the unapproachable, the remote, than of the humanity of Jesus and of a ‘taken on’ Redeemer. 1992 Cornell Daily Sun 30 Nov. 15/1 Ford Prefect..explores the newly-taken-over Guide. 2006 N. Govinden Graffiti My Soul (2007) i. 3 I know how I looked on the morning of the funeral. Black suit from M&S... Taken-up hems on the trousers. C2. With prepositional phrases, corresponding to phrasal uses of take, as taken-for-granted, taken-out-of-context, etc. ΚΠ 1800 W. Eaton Let. 4 July in C. Prentiss Life W. Eaton (1813) 150 This inference he drew from the taken for granted premises ‘that..[etc.]’. 1895 G. B. Shaw in Liberty 27 July 2/1 The Impressionist movement..was evidently destined to improve pictures greatly by substituting a natural, observant, real style for a conventional, taken-for-granted, ideal one. 1981 S. Vigoda Legendary Voices I. xiv. 151 I offered the wine-filled goblet to the taken-by-surprise father of the bride. 1985 SMPTE Jrnl. 94 460/3 When reported in the print media, the taken-out-of-context term, ‘we will bury you’, made ominous-sounding headlines in the U.S. press. 2008 New Yorker 8 Dec. 79/1 He drove like a cop, with a taken-for-granted authority. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1382 |
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