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单词 adhorn
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adhornv.

Brit. /ədˈhɔːn/, /adˈhɔːn/, U.S. /ædˈhɔrn/, /ədˈhɔrn/
Forms: 1600s ad'horn, 1600s adhorne, 1600s 1900s– adhorn.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: ad- prefix, horn n.
Etymology: < ad- prefix + horn n., punningly after adorn v.
Now historical.
transitive. To fit with horns (chiefly in a figurative sense); to cuckold (a person). Also in extended use. See horn n. 7a.
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society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [verb (transitive)] > defile by adultery > dishonour husband by adultery
byhorec1440
hornc1550
behorn1574
Actaeon1582
to make to wear the stag's crest1591
cornute1597
adhorn1605
hornify1607
tup1608
capricornify1611
cornify1611
cuckolda1616
Vulcan1624
wittol1624
branch1633
shoehorn1638
capricorn1665
cuckoldize1682
to liquor (a person's) bootsa1704
ram-head1713
1605 G. Chapman Al Fooles ii. i. sig. D4 O yes, hee adores you and adhornes mee.
1628 J. Taylor Wit & Mirth sig. B8 She should consider that her husband was her Head: Good sir, quoth shee, I did euer acknowledge him so;..I was but trimming, dressing, or ad'horning my Head.
1637 W. Saltonstall tr. Ovid Heroicall Epist. (ed. 2) i. v. 30 Menelaus grieves, because that she Hath..Wrong'd the chaste rites of his Nuptiall-bed, And let a stranger so adhorne [1663 adhorn] his head.
1903 Baconiana Apr. 73 The prime and one and only acceptable jest of the period appears to have been to ‘adhorn’..one's neighbour.
1971 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 11 299 Lysander's belief in human immutability ‘adhorns’ him.
2002 C. Sullivan Rhetoric of Credit vii. 137 The scene at Cuckold's Haven, where Slitgut ‘adhorns’ the monument.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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