单词 | time-stained |
释义 | > as lemmastime-stained (a) Instrumental, as in time-battered, time-bewasted, time-bleached, time-stained, time-wasted, etc., (adjectives).Frequently with reference to deterioration or other change brought about by the passage of (a long period of) time; in some of these compounds the meaning tends towards ‘that has been —— over time’.Some of the more established or distinctive compounds of this type are treated separately. ΚΠ 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II i. iii. 214 My oile-dried lampe, and time bewasted light. View more context for this quotation a1628 F. Greville Life of Sidney (1651) xv. 199 Those time-authorized assemblies. 1658 H. Crompton Pierides xci. 128 Time-wasted flesh, and wrinkled brows Are no fit objects for their bows. 1729 R. Savage Wanderer v. 44 Time-batter'd Tow'rs frown awful in Decay. 1765 W. Stevenson Vertumnus in Orig. Poems I. 119 Round and round the bat incessant flits, Yon time-rent wall, with moss-tufts overgrown. a1771 T. Gray Agrippina in Poems (1775) 133 The slacken'd sinews of time-wearied age. 1779 H. Cowley Albina iv. 66 Why must I tear the pillow..from thy time-blanch'd head? 1800 E. Bartell Obs. Town of Cromer viii. 78 Its moss-grown thatch and time-stained walls are..in perfect harmony with the objects that surround it. 1806 A. Seward Let. 27 Jan. (1811) VI. 242 Dr Parr's articulation..is now, by the loss of his teeth, become almost wholly unintelligible to my time-dulled ear. 1810 R. M. Roche Houses Osma & Almeria viii. 103 The winds whistled shrill, through his time-bleached locks. 1839 H. T. Tuckerman Isabel 117 Numerous lights fell on the upturned face of the novice, and the time-withered lineaments of the abbess. 1843 Bentley's Misc. 14 297 The time-gnawn, mouldering walls Of man-deserted gothic halls. 1870 Proc. N.Y. Hist. Soc. June 6 He..brought out the time-blurred lines and tints of some neglected Watteau. 1924 W. de la Mare Ding Dong Bell 56 Those flat and spotted fungi that rise in a night on time-soiled birch trees. 1938 H. T. Lowe-Porter tr. T. Mann Joseph in Egypt I. ii. 94 Wide-eyed and cruel, with time-gnawn nose,..it gazed across at its river. 1985 S. Penman Here be Dragons i. iii. 43 His sisters, who had been bartered as child brides to foreign princes, were little more to him now than time-dimmed memories. 2007 Esquire Sept. 130/2 [She] plays a time-ravaged witch called Lamia. < as lemmas |
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