单词 | unrest |
释义 | unrestn. 1. a. Disharmony; disturbance, turmoil, trouble; discord, strife; (in later use esp.) disturbance or turmoil resulting from dissatisfaction or anger within a society or community, typically taking the form of public demonstrations or disorder.In quot. a1382: noise, uproar. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun] unfritheOE unpeacea1325 unresta1382 hurling1387 tumult1412 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 unquietness?c1450 unpeaceableness?c1475 estoure1481 broilery1521 broiling1523 turmoil1526 brulyie1531 unquiet1551 troublesomeness1561 disrest1567 turbulence1598 hurly1600 turbulency1607 inquieta1684 brulyiement1718 agitation1769 dispeace1825 fudder1871 push and shove1895 the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] winOE torpelness?c1225 disturbance1297 workc1325 disturblingc1330 farec1330 frapec1330 disturbing1340 troublingc1340 blunderc1375 unresta1382 hurling1387 perturbationc1400 turbationc1400 rumblec1405 roara1413 rumourc1425 sturblance1435 troublec1435 stroublance1439 hurlc1440 hurly-burlyc1440 ruffling1440 stourc1440 rumblingc1450 sturbancec1450 unquietness?c1450 conturbationc1470 ruption1483 stir1487 wanrufe?a1505 rangat?a1513 business1514 turmoil1526 blommera1529 blunderinga1529 disturbation1529 bruyllie1535 garboil1543 bruslery1546 agitation1547 frayment1549 turmoiling1550 whirl1552 confusion1555 troublesomeness1561 rule1567 rummage1575 rabble1579 tumult1580 hurlement1585 rabblement1590 disturb1595 welter1596 coil1599 hurly1600 hurry1600 commotion1616 remotion1622 obturbation1623 stirrance1623 tumultuation1631 commoving1647 roiling1647 spudder1650 suffle1650 dissettlement1654 perturbancy1654 fermentationa1661 dissettledness1664 ferment1672 roil1690 hurry-scurry1753 vortex1761 rumpus1768 widdle1789 gilravagea1796 potheration1797 moil1824 festerment1833 burly1835 fidge1886 static1923 comess1944 frammis1946 bassa-bassa1956 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Judith xiv. 9 Þei þat weren comyng in þe tabernacle..makinge noise for ende to areren hym, bi craft casten vnreste [L. inquietudinem]. a1425 Adam & Eve (Wheatley) in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 79 Vnreste [L. inimicitias] I schal put bitwene þee and þe womman. ?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 385 Nor any schal make any noyse there [sc. in the dortour] of unreste aboute makyng of ther beddes. 1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) vi. sig. q ijv It wos eu[er] the occasion of moch vnrest & bataill. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxii Which tourned hym to great dishonoure. And his Lordes to great vnrest. 1608 T. Milles Custumers Alphabet & Primer sig. Dv They haue beene occasions of much vnrest and disorders in former times. 1845 Baptist Rec. June 362 A church..whose busy emissaries at this moment fill every part of Europe with agitation and unrest. 1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 18 To the anarchy and unrest of transition succeeds the demand for constitutional order. 1901 Times of India 16 Feb. 10/3 (headline) Student unrest in Russia. Many exiled to the east. 1924 F. E. Haynes Social Politics U.S. xiv. 332 Labor unrest, illustrated vividly by the coal and steel strikes of 1919, spread rapidly. 1946 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. iii. 4/4 (headline) Price unrest slows market's activities. 1986 L. Garfield December Rose vi. 39 It was their sworn duty to hunt down and destroy the assassins, the bomb-throwers, the stirrers-up of unrest in the streets. 2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Sept. a13/1 The unrest started on Aug. 10 when 3,000 rock drillers..went on strike. b. An instance or episode of such disturbance; an outbreak of public disorder. ΚΠ 1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 17 Of thought cometh the wakyngis and vnrestis. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. ii. 74 Be all wais noysum and onrestis, And all that horribill was. 1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iv. 72 Both Goddesses..contriuing still, afflicted Troys vnrests. 1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 1957 Nor, thereby, many other mens unrests Occasion they alone. 1698 J. Pechey Compl. Midwife's Pract. Enlarged (ed. 5) 347 Such unrests as these ought not to enter into the breast of a Midwife; for, her mind ought to be free and at peace. 1870 T. Tilton in E. B. Browning Last Poems 59 It gave illumination to her moral and religious nature;..giving her the power to incite other souls to yearnings like her own, to fill them with vague unrests and aspirations for a higher life. 1920 New Amer. Church Monthly June 349 And as the Catholic conviction grows upon us, we find in it a standpoint from which ever and ever clearer the pathetic needs and unrests and ignorances of our time can be gauged. 1970 Art Educ. 23 iii. 27 The 20th century has brought about many changes, the greatest of which has occurred in the student's role in education. The unrests, protests, revolts, marches, and sit-ins are all segments of today's scene. 1994 Financial Times 30 Mar. 21/6 Damned nuisance, these civil unrests. A colleague has just arrived in Johannesburg to cover the elections. 2009 Washington Times (Nexis) 6 Aug. B1 The ministry also did not act as it was expected in the recent unrests. 2. The state or fact of not being at peace, at ease, or comfortable; unease; discomfort; distress; upset. Also: an instance of this. ΚΠ c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 250 Hit hedde him do wiþ pyne and vn reste and vn Ro. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xl. 388 In þe body half is heuynesse and slownesse, indigestioun.., vnreste of wakynge, drede in slepinge. a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 879 That cause is of þis sorwe and þis vnreste. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.:Wallner) ii. 51 (MED) No farmacous þing oweþ to be medled with mete; þer is engendred forsoþ vnreste & Akyng. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxviii. §165. 435 (MED) Charite puttis away all lettyngis and vnrest of thoght. 1541 R. Whitford Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges xii. f. 15v Vnrest of mynde cummeth of opinion or suspicion. 1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham sig. V.iiii Furth streamde the teares, recordes of his vnrest. a1627 W. Sclater Serm. Experimentall (1638) 50 A sweet soliloquie of David with his soul, checking it..for the disquiet, and unrest it passionately had plunged it self into. 1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius Against Fear of Death in Sylvæ 76 If the foolish race of man..Cou'd find as well the cause of this unrest, And all this burden lodg'd within the breast. 1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. vi Whate'er smack'd of noyance, or unrest, Was far, far off expelled. 1796 Oracle & Public Advertiser 12 July O! love, must I for ever feel unrest? 1816 Ld. Byron Parisina v, in Siege of Corinth 66 And mutters she in her unrest A name. 1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. i. 10 The unrest and the agony that lie hid in the heart of man. 1900 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 11 Jan. 2/7 I firmly believe that what I may call feverish unrest is highly prejudicial to the interests of art. 1974 R. L. Hill Nails xxii. 209 With Christmas Joe's resolve grew deeper, a core of sharp unrest gnawing at him daily, a vague dissatisfaction that grew and grew. 2006 S. Kenyon Dark Side of Moon xi. 186 He turned his back to her as if nothing had happened. But even so she could sense his unrest. Phrases Abbot of Unrest n. Scottish rare (historical in later use) a person chosen to preside over certain popular games and festivities; cf. Abbot (of) Unreason at unreason n. Phrases, Abbot of Misrule, variant of Lord of Misrule n. at misrule n. 4. ΚΠ 1472 in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 167 The quhilk day was mad burges John Necoll, and hys fredom gewyn to John Morchowson abbot of vnrest in that tym. 1903 R. Renwick Peebles iv. 24 At other times the amusements of the people were attended to, as in 1472 when the ‘Abbot of Unrest’, and in 1555 when ‘my lord Robene Hude’, obtained donations. 1947 C. W. Gardiner Lament for Strings 53 The abbot of unrest walks humbly In our deserted streets Dropping three useless coins Into the extended cap Of the organ-grinding hero. 2005 R. Black Gaelic Otherworld 583 The mock abbots of the Scottish burghs—the Abbot of Unreason in Inverness, for example, or the Abbot of Unrest in Peebles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). unrestv. rare in later use. transitive. To disturb; †to trouble (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > upset or perturb [verb (transitive)] to-wendc893 mingeOE dreveOE angerc1175 sturb?c1225 worec1225 troublec1230 sturble1303 disturbc1305 movea1325 disturblec1330 drubblea1340 drovec1350 distroublec1369 tempestc1374 outsturba1382 unresta1382 stroublec1384 unquietc1384 conturb1393 mismaya1400 unquemea1400 uneasec1400 discomfita1425 smite?a1425 perturbc1425 pertrouble?1435 inquiet1486 toss1526 alter1529 disquiet1530 turmoil1530 perturbate1533 broil1548 mis-set?1553 shake1567 parbruilyiec1586 agitate1587 roil1590 transpose1594 discompose1603 harrow1609 hurry1611 obturb1623 shog1636 untune1638 alarm1649 disorder1655 begruntlea1670 pother1692 disconcert1695 ruffle1701 tempestuate1702 rough1777 caddle1781 to put out1796 upset1805 discomfort1806 start1821 faze1830 bother1832 to put aback1833 to put about1843 raft1844 queer1845 rattle1865 to turn over1865 untranquillize1874 hack1881 rock1881 to shake up1884 to put off1909 to go (also pass) through a phase1913 to weird out1970 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxvi. 14 Who art þou þat criest, & vnrestist [L. inquietas] þe kyng? tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 174 Good is hem to sle, ffor they the swarm vnrestith. a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 49 A Cyte..whom noon aduersite troubleth..ne noon heuynesse vnresteth. 1541 R. Whitford Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges xii. f. 14v Sone after: the mynde wyl be vnrested withall, and seke for remedy. 1650 E. Marbury Brief Comm. Obadiah 23 The present prosperity of the wicked..hath much disquieted very godly persons; David confesseth it to have unrested him. 1996 Fiber Optics Weekly Update 28 June 10/1 Cables can be added without unresting previously-installed cables. 2012 K. Bertone Art of Visit iv. 109 Do they toss the football from the kitchen out the window in an attempt to unrest the sleeping dog on the lawn? 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