单词 | unloosed |
释义 | unloosedadj.1 That has been unloosed (in various senses of the verb); loosened; let loose. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > constitution of matter > softness > types of softness > [adjective] > slack or not tense > slackened unlooseda1382 slackened?c1640 eased1851 society > authority > lack of subjection > freedom or liberty > liberation > [adjective] > liberated > released from confinement frank1475 unpenta1592 disimprisoned1611 unjail1613 uncaged1648 unpadlocked1681 unmanacled1805 unloosed1839 disprisoned1842 unconfined1842 unsnaffled1846 bond-stript1855 loosed1887 untaken1893 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Ecclus. xxv. 32 Feble hondis and vnloosid [L. dissoluta] knees. 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Vnlowsed, discinctus. 1598 R. Carew Herrings Tayle sig. Ei From the vnloosed hold thus looseth he his place. 1617 T. Middleton & W. Rowley Faire Quarrell i. sig. C3 Binde but this knot with an vnloosed line, I will be still thine owne. a1675 L. Hoar Sting of Death (1680) 12 They cannot but be full of bitterness and anguish under the unloosed pangs of Death. 1764 J. Ogilvie Poems Several Subj. (new ed.) 133 Where flits unloos'd th' aerial mind, that once inform'd thy tuneful frame? 1839 C. Darwin in R. Fitzroy & C. Darwin Narr. Surv. Voy. H.M.S. Adventure & Beagle III. xxiii. 603 The strife of the unloosed elements. 1859 W. Platt Betty Westm. II. xxi. 399 The hum and hubbub..and unloosed tongues that followed, shewed the real work of the night had begun in earnest. 1941 Illustr. London News 13 Dec. 740/1 Facing the mightiest torrent of unloosed force in human history. 2001 C. Hicks Improper Pursuits ix. 271 The unloosed hair is the focal point of the picture. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † unloosedadj.2 Obsolete. 1. Not loosened. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > fastening > condition of being fast bound or firmly fixed > [adjective] > of knots or bands > not loosened or becoming loose unloosedc1424 unloosing1593 unslippinga1616 c1424–34 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 194 Pro la vaumpedyng xij parium ocrearum lowsed aretro [read a retro] xiij d. ob..Et pro xij paribus unlowsed retro x d. ob. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Fire of Love 91 Þe knot vnlousyd of drawynge frenschyp sal comforth heuynes of bodily sondyrynge. 2. Scottish. Of a property: unredeemed from a mortgage or arrestment. ΚΠ 1439 Charter Edinb. Reg. House No. 49 Josand..the forsaide landis..with all profetis commoditeis & esmentis vnlousite out of the saide wodeset. 1520 Protocol Bk. J. Foular (1930) II. 78 The said Marion wald be content to adnull and discharge the vij yeris that the said annuell suld be unlowsit contenit in thair reversion. 1558–9 in D. Littlejohn Rec. Sheriff Court Aberdeenshire (1904) I. 186 The away takin of the saidis beir and aittis of the groundis..quhair thai war than standand under arreistment onlowsit. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1a1382adj.2c1424 |
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