单词 | ugglesome |
释义 | ugglesomeadj. Now rare. Fearful, horrible, gruesome. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] atelOE grislya1150 atelichc1175 grisfula1300 ugly13.. hideous1303 horrible1303 ghastlyc1305 stout1338 horrendc1420 ugsomec1425 grisilc1440 execrable1490 uggle1499 horrious?1520 uglisome1530 ugglesome1561 gruesome1570 grisy1590 gashfulc1600 horrid1602 ghast1622 gashly1627 horrific1653 horrendous1661 horrorous1756 horrifying1791 horrorish1847 grauly1848 α. 1855 Chambers's Jrnl. 7 July 13 This ‘ugglesome beast’ seldom troubles me, for his dwelling is in some secluded cleft of the stone.1864 G. A. Sala in Daily Tel. 14 Nov. That weird and ogglesome beast the Wangdoodlum.β. 1575 T. Vautrollier tr. M. Luther Comm. Epist. to Galathians f. 260 In the wilde wildernes, which being burnt vp with the heat of the Sunne, yeldeth an ouglesome habitation to the Monkes.1608 J. Dod & R. Cleaver Plaine Expos. Prov. xi–xii. 69 In the froward he seeth the work of the diuell, whereby they are depraued and made most vile & ouglesome.1622 S. Ward Life of Faith in Death 26 When I beholde the ouglesome face of Death, I am afrayd, but when I consider Christes amiable Countenance, I take heart againe. [Cf. quot. 1576 at α. .]1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iii. sig. Ji.iii Some are compelled by their fathers to take olde men full of diseases, vglesome & weywarde. 1561 T. Hoby tr. B. Castiglione Courtyer iv. sig. Tt.iiii A face darke, vglesome, vnpleasaunt and to be shonned for yll. 1576 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments (rev. ed.) II. 1904/2 When I beholde the amiable countenance of Christ..ye vglesome [1563 vgsome] face of death doth not greatly trouble me. 1583 P. Stubbes Anat. Abuses sig. Qiiv They shal be punished in fire and brimstone amongest the terrible Company of vgglesome Deuils. 1591 P. Stubbes Christal Glasse sig. Cijv As though she saw some filthie vgglesome, and displeasant thing. 1617 J. Moore Mappe Mans Mortal. i. viii. 58 It shewed..our vglesome shape, most monstrous to beholde. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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