单词 | weaned |
释义 | weanedadj. In senses of the verb, literal and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > providing or receiving food > [adjective] > weaned weanedc1440 spaned?a1513 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > unaccustomedness or state of disuse > [adjective] > not used or accustomed > disaccustomed disused1530 disaccustomeda1586 weaned1670 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 522/1 Wenyd, as chylder fro sokynge, ablactatus. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Psalms cxxxi. 2 My soule is euen as a weened childe. 1620 J. Brinsley tr. Virgil Eclogues iii. 35/1 The wained kids. 1670 T. Brookes London's Lament. 215 With what a weaned heart and cold affections do men look upon all the pomp, state, bravery and glory of the world, when [etc.]. 1836 C. Bradley Pract. Serm. 360 A weaned heart is absolutely needful for you. 1837 W. Youatt Sheep xv. 517 Many farmers are very fanciful as to the provision for the weaned lambs. Derivatives ˈweanedness n. spiritual detachment. ΚΠ a1617 P. Baynes Entire Comm. Epist. Paul to Ephesians (1643) 278 Adorning this their age in Christ, with graces correspondent, viz. experience, wisdome, weanednesse, all kinde of mortification. 1689 T. Manton Serm. iii. i. Life of Faith 28 The Spiritual life..begets a holy weanedness in us. 1702 C. Mather Magnalia Christi i. iii. 13/2 An Example of..Weanedness from the things of this World. 1858 J. S. C. Abbott Heroines Fr. Revol. 215 Her weanedness from the world. 1886 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David VII. Ps. cxxxi. 2 Such weanedness from self springs from the gentle humility declared in the former verse. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.c1440 |
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