单词 | unquartered |
释义 | unquarteredadj. 1. a. Heraldry. Of a shield, coat of arms, etc.: not divided or arranged quarterly; also with with. Cf. quarterly adv. 2.In quot. 1747 in figurative context. ΚΠ 1559 N. Throckmorton Let. 21 June in Full View Public Trans. Reign Q. Elizabeth (1740) I. 138 Th'armes of England conteined in the middes by themselfs, unquartered and hooll. 1747 G. Lyttelton Let. to Tories 14 If you once set up the standard of true Toryism, unquarter'd with Jacobitism. 1853 Ainsworth's Mag. July lxii. 62 High-backed and tapestry-worked chairs, of so remote a date that they bore the arms of Burgundy, yet unquartered, with those of Spain or Austria. 1950 Shakespeare Q. 1 291 The tomb in Stratford Church shows only the crest and unquartered arms. 1999 J. M. Lewis Med. Tiles Wales 30/2 The presence of the arms of England un-quartered with those of France..points to a date before 1340. b. gen. Not divided into quarters or parts; undivided. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > [adjective] > united into a whole > not divided, separated, or split > unserved or uncut unclippeda1425 unsevered1453 unsned1513 uncut1546 uncloven1547 uncut1548 uncleft1599 unchopped1648 unquartered1697 1697 J. Potter Archæologiæ Græcæ I. xviii. 323 Then kill a tender Ewe; when this is done, O' th' new rais'd Pile, unquarter'd [Gk. ἀδαίετον] lay her on. 1728 H. Crouch Compl. View Brit. Customs Part Second 256 Clapholt..is for the same Use as Clap-boards, but in whole Pieces and unquarter'd. 1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 274 He..Flings on the flames whole bodies of bulls unquartered to blaze [L. et solida imponit taurorum viscera flammis]. 1999 Sunday Tasmanian (Nexis) 6 June Chicken..taken home uncut and unquartered to be stuffed, baked and trucked to the table with roast spuds and three veg. ΚΠ a1602 W. Perkins Godlie & Learned Expos. Epist. Iude (1606) xv. 114/2 Al things are fully and perfectly knowne vnto God;..yea they are naked, and as it were vnquartered before his eyes. 1603 F. Dillingham (title) A quartron of reasons, composed by Doctor Hill, vnquartered, and prooued a quartron of follies. 1654 W. Jenkyn Expos. Jude: 2nd Pt. 487 Every sinne is fully and clearly manifest before God, yea naked, unquartered, and ript up before his eyes, as when a man anatomizeth a body. 3. Not provided with quarters or lodgings. Also: not billeted on a person or group. ΚΠ 1637 R. Monro Exped. Scots Regim. 64 Captaine Monro his Company did lie on the streets foure nights unquartred. 1810 Papistical Crisis 49 His Lordship was desirous to find the remnant of the buff and blue squad remaining unquartered on the public, that he might furnish them with billets. 2007 Afr. News (Nexis) 1 Jan. Witnesses said the place was mostly inhabited by Akwa Ibom, Ogoni and Ibo people and some unquartered police officers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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