单词 | unprayed |
释义 | unprayedadj. 1. Not prayed to, entreated, or beseeched; unasked; †uninvited (obsolete). Now rare (archaic and literary in later use). ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > [adjective] > unasked unbiddenc1010 unboonedc1175 unaskeda1255 unfrayneda1275 uncalleda1400 unbid14.. unprayeda1402 unrequiredc1425 undesired1470 unchargedc1485 uncommandeda1535 unrequested1564 unsolicited1594 unsued1594 unsought1598 unspeeredc1598 unentreated1601 unimportuned?1611 unurgeda1616 uninvited1632 unsupplicated1634 unpetitioned1639 uninterrogated1803 unsolicitated1807 a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 60 (MED) Þei comeþ into houses & courtes &..etiþ & drynkeþ what þei þer fyndeþ, vnbede and vnprayed. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 513 Syn þat þow sleest so fele..A-yens hire wil vnpreyed day and nyght Do me..þis seruice. c1430 N. Love Mirror Blessed Life (Brasenose e.9) (1908) 116 In that oure lord mekely vnpreide wente bodily to hele the sike seruaunt. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (BL Add. 9066) (1879) 290 The lyon, the Ape, and the Serpent, yelded hym mede, because he drew hem out of the pitte vnpraied. 1536 in 10th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1885) App. v. 407 Whatsoever man..goeth in to anny such housse..unpraied or bidden. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xvi. xlv. 289 To my sutors old what I denaid, That gaue I thee..vnpraid. 1849 M. Arnold Strayed Reveller, & Other Poems 28 Who, weighing that life well Fortune presents unpray'd, Declines her ministry. 1904 C. I. Bowen Vaginvid 11 The wary mongouse watched this demi-god,..Priest unprayed, Kind king unknown, true poet unpatronised. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > pitilessness > [adjective] > inexorable > not moved by prayer unprayed1567 1567 T. Drant tr. Horace Arte of Poetrie sig. Aiiijv If thou wouldest set Achilles oute..Let him be swift, chafing, vnprayed [L. inexorabilis], Inflamde to vengaunce sone. 3. Of a prayer: unsaid; not uttered or expressed. ΚΠ 1835 Metrop. Mag. 14 292 Then! shall Britain..Blessings unprayed receive from voiceless lips. 1858 Titan Oct. 424 As if the God of silent sighs Had heard her unprayed prayer. 1916 Making of Soldier xxiii. 126 Like those songs unsung and our unprayed prayers, my tribute must go out unwritten. 2012 Star (Shelby, N. Carolina) (Nexis) 28 July There are..so many prayers unprayed; so much worship time missed. Compounds(Cf. note at un- prefix1 2c.) C1. With prepositions, as unprayed to, unprayed over, etc. ΚΠ 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. i. viii. 339 An innumerable companie of heauenly powers pray together with them vnprayed unto, or vnspoken to. 1622 T. Walkley tr. J. de Luna Pursuit Hist. Lazarillo x. 96 Some Saint or other (for I had not left one vnprayed to in all the Letanie) had brought him thither. 1678 H. More Let. 25 May 51 in J. Glanvill Saducismus Triumphatus (1681) The holy Angels..which..reinforce the prayers of good and holy men..unprayed to themselves. 1849 Cottager's Monthly Visitor June 181 The Gospel remained unsearched and unprayed over. 1888 A. M. F. Robinson Songs, Ballads, & Garden Play 28 He..found the altar of the unprayed-to God. 1963 Sat. Evening Post 9 Nov. 68/1 The church has a stark and lonely, unprayed-in appearance. 2000 P. West O. K. xx. 226 Unbidden means unprayed to, I think. C2. unprayed for adj. not asked or petitioned for in prayer. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > [adjective] > making mention of in prayer > not unprayed for1533 unbid1590 1533 T. More Apol. xxviii, in Wks. 894/1 Yf they leue nothing vnpraied for that mai perteine to the pacificacion of this diuision. 1545 J. Bale Mysterye Inyquyte P. Pantolabus f. 83 Moche better yt is to be vnprayed for, than to be prayed for out of stynkynge heresye. 1652 C. Pooly Vindic. Christ 106 The veniall sinnes of Believers unprayed for and unrepented of. 1702 D. Defoe Reformation of Manners 50 What Capital offence Could bar thee from the Priests Benevolence, That they..should..let thee live unbless'd, unprayed for Die. 1822 J. M. Blanco y Crespo Vargas II. xiii. 76 The most unprayed-for soul in purgatory. 1902 Gospel in All Lands Sept. 419/2 No single step was taken unprayed for. 2013 Huffington Post (Nexis) 30 Sept. A twenty-dollar bill..materialized by some rhyme beyond the natural world, unwished for, unprayed for. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.a1402 |
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