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单词 welked
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welkedadj.

/wɛlkt/
Forms: Also Middle English welken.
Etymology: < welk v.1
Obsolete exc. dialect.
(a) Withered, faded, dried up. (b) Dulled in lustre.
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the world > matter > condition of matter > bad condition of matter > [adjective] > having lost freshness
fade1303
welkeda1325
walloweda1400
forfaded1413
overworn1565
faded1574
tarnished1716
tired1766
weltered1855
swivelled1898
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > [adjective] > dimmed > deprived of lustre
welkeda1325
dislustred1868
delustred1934
a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2107 .vii. lene [ears] rigt ðor-bi, Welkede and smale & drugte numen.
c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 410 For which ful pale and welked is my face.
1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis III. 357 That which was whilom grene gras, Is welked hey at time now.
c1425 tr. Arderne's Treat. Fistula 71 Hyngyng in maner of a welked grape [L. pendentes instar uvae marcidae].
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 16320 A drye stobyll, or..a welkyd leef.
1426 J. Lydgate tr. G. de Guileville Pilgrimage Life Man 16325 I, the most wrechchyd Wyght off alle synners, and most dyffadyd and wylked with synne.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 521/1 Welkyd, or walkyn [Winch. MS. welkyn], marcidus.
a1470 J. Hardyng Chron. xcv. xii The grasse and corne, that welked were afore..waxed grene and gan reuert.
1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclvii Mystrust with foly with yuel wil medled, engendreth that welked padde.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) xii Her wealked face with woful teares besprent.
1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Jan. 73 By that, the welked Phœbus gan auaile His weary waine.
1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night in Wks. (Grosart) III. 258 Our faces..are most deformedlye welked and crumpled.
1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. Q 1v Here falls proude Phaeton, tumbling through the clowds..And setting fire vpon the welked shrowds [1619 His Chariot tumbling from the welked Shrowds].
1879 J. E. Cussans Hist. Hertfordshire III. 321 Shep likes tunnups better when they're wilkt.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

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