单词 | unchristened |
释义 | unchristenedadj. 1. a. Not made Christian; not converted to Christianity, unbaptized. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > lack of Christianity > [adjective] unchristenc1000 unchristenedc1330 faithlessa1400 unchristian1563 unchristenlike1570 unchristianed1579 unchristianlike1610 unchristianly1643 unchristianized1778 unevangelized1813 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 11974 Me þynkeþ hit were but tynt, þe stounde, To write þe names of so fele hounde Þat were vncristned in þys mounde. c1350 Lybeaus Disc. 1358 What wendest thou, fendes fere? Uncrystenede that were Tyll y saw the wyth syght. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 219 Þai & all þer howsold become crestend, þat war haythen befor and vncristend. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur ix. xxvii. 381 Nay said syre Persydes, hit is syr Palomydes, that is yet vncrystened. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 2 Corneli centurio, ȝet vncristund, is clensid wiþ þe Hooli Goost. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxiijv The Moores or Mawritane nacion, beyng infideles & vnchristened people. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 188 A Pagan or unchristened King of Northumberland, had married a Christian woman. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. 74 The Holy-land is now in the dominion of unchristened Saracens. 1659 R. Baxter Key for Catholicks ii. iii. 429 Else most of the Christians of the world at this day are Apostates and unchristened. 1772 ‘H. Clinker’ Folly Witless Women 4 A cock, a cat, or some unkirsen't creature. 1825 W. Scott Talisman xii, in Tales Crusaders IV. 261 Edith Plantagenet scorns the homage of an unchristened Pagan. 1868 J. H. Newman Verses Var. Occasions 114 Why should we fear, the Son now lacks His place Where roams unchristened man? 1873– in Eng. Dial. Dict. (at cited word) 1881 Athenæum 24 Sept. 393/2 A survival of the feasts of our unchristened forefathers. b. spec. Of children. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [adjective] > not baptized unfulghtenedc1175 fulloghtlessa1225 unblessedc1310 unbaptized14.. unhovenc1480 undipped1693 unchristened1725 unchrisom1831 unimmersed1835 1725 A. Ramsay Gentle Shepherd ii. ii At midnight hours o'er the kirkyard she raves, And howks unchristen'd weans out of their graves. 1777 J. Brand Observ. Pop. Antiq. 74 (note) Children dying unbaptized;..It is thought here very unlucky to go over their Graves. It is vulgarly called going over ‘unchristened Ground’. 1791 R. Burns Tam O' Shanter in Poems & Songs (1968) II. 561 Twa span-lang, wee, unchristen'd bairns. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. xiv. 462 Annihilation is the fate of the greater part of mankind, of heathens, of Mahometans, of unchristened babes. 2. Unnamed. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > anonymity or lack of a name > [adjective] unnevenedc1400 unnamed1550 anonymal1587 untituled1610 untitled1612 titlelessa1616 anonymous1625 namelessc1625 innominate1638 innominated1660 unchristened1832 undesignated1875 uncredited1959 1832 M. R. Mitford Our Village V. 218 I do not mean, in this catalogue, to include the large proportion of bright, shallow trouting-streams, for the most part unchristened and unregistered. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxiv. 194 A large cape and several smaller headlands were seen,..all on the western side. They remain unchristened. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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