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单词 vanquished
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vanquishedadj.

Brit. /ˈvaŋkwɪʃt/, U.S. /ˈvæŋkwɪʃt/
Forms: Also Middle English–1500s Scottish vencust, 1500s Scottish vincust, vanquest, vanqueist; 1500s vanquisshed, 1600s vanquisht.
Etymology: formed as vanquishable adj.
a. Defeated, overcome, subdued.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective]
matec1225
conquestc1400
convictc1430
triumphate1471
devict?a1475
vanquishedc1485
discomfecta1529
overcome1530
profligate1535
discomfited1538
defeatc1540
discomfishedc1540
suppriseda1547
beaten1550
conquered1552
ydaunted1581
overmastereda1586
expugned1598
profligated1599
tattered1599
triumphed1605
overcomed1607
fight-rac't?1611
convicteda1616
worsted1641
foiled1810
lost1822
defeateda1859
outfought1891
c1485 ( G. Hay Bk. Law of Armys (2005) 256 The vencust man..suld pay to the vencusour his costis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid i. ii. 27 Cariand to Italy Thair vincust hammald goddis and Ilion.
1599 A. Hume Hymnes sig. F2v The portrators of euerie vanquest towne, Of Cittadells [etc.].
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 281 The matchless Gideon in pursuit Of Madian and her vanquisht Kings. View more context for this quotation
1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) x. 41 Those [arms] which Marcus Marcellus took from the vanquish'd Viridomarus.
1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall (1787) III. xxviii. 103 But the victors themselves were insensibly subdued by the arts of their vanquished rivals.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 44 This plea the King considered as the subterfuge of a vanquished disputant.
1884 Marshall's Tennis Cuts 266 Much more they steep The vanquished soul in sweet forgetfulness.
b. absol. The person or persons defeated, etc.
ΘΚΠ
society > armed hostility > warrior > defeated or conquered > [noun] > collectively
vanquished1555
1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aijv Greater commoditie hath therof ensewed to the vanquisshed then the victourers.
1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries i. 38 That the victors would sacke the vanquisheds houses.
1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan ii. xx. 104 It is not..the Victory, that giveth the right of Dominion over the Vanquished [etc.].
1728 E. Haywood tr. M.-A. de Gomez Belle Assemblée (1732) II. 67 Perhaps, if Tremouille had been the vanquish'd, he could not have behaved with the same Temper, as, being Conqueror, he did.
1810 J. Porter Sc. Chiefs I. i. 1 The vanquished, after passing under the yoke of their enemy, concluded they might wear their chains in peace.
1887 C. Bowen tr. Virgil Æneid ii, in tr. Virgil in Eng. Verse 125 One hope only remains for the vanquished—hope to resign.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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