单词 | unlevelled |
释义 | unlevelledunleveledadj. Not made level, flat, or even; not brought down to the level of the ground. Also figurative and in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > unevenness > [adjective] > not made level unlevelled1546 unstruck1615 unflattened1884 1546 S. Gardiner Declar. True Articles f. lcv Trauayling, in a roughe and an vnleueled matter, for want of the playnnes and smothenes of the truth. 1584 B. Rich Don Simonides II. sig. I.ivv Vnderlay thyne owne vnleueled phantasies. 1622 M. Drayton 2nd Pt. Poly-olbion xxiii. 69 Where Cheshire..with Lancashire doth lie Along th' vnlevel'd shores. a1669 F. Howgill Dawnings of Gospel-day (1676) 73 Your hard Hearts are unbroken, and the Mountains are unleveled. 1730 T. Tickell Kensington Gardens 30 Where all unlevell'd the gay Garden lies. 1762 Hist. Sutton-Coldfield 8 It hath baffled all the efforts of time or the plough to efface it, and probably will continue unlevelled. 1811 W. Scott in Edinb. Ann. Reg. 1809 2 194/2 I am unwilling, in such a case as this, that a mole-hill should remain unlevelled. 1854 ‘G. Greenwood’ Haps & Mishaps 30 The grandeur of its yet unlevelled walls and towers. 1905 Bull. Amer. Geogr. Soc. 37 603 The roads..are simply unlevelled rock. 1965 Chicago Defender 7 Aug. 17/1 The U.S. Davis Cup Team went to Dallas with apprehension about the conditions of the unleveled tennis courts. 2015 New Indian Express (Nexis) 13 Aug. Unlevelled manholes for underground drainage cause many accidents. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1546 |
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