单词 | well-weaponed |
释义 | well-weaponedadj. Equipped with good or numerous weapons; well-armed. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > arming or equipping with weapons > [adjective] weaponedc1000 armedc1300 well-armedc1300 well-weaponeda1325 armed to the teethc1380 well-steeledc1390 warlikec1420 anarm1426 boden1429 well-harnesseda1450 geared1488 well-geared1488 well-boden1496 warly1508 enarmedc1540 burled1616 undisarmed1649 of (good) force1697 tooled up1959 weaponized1973 a1325 (c1250) Gen. & Exod. (1968) l. 2479 He..bad him nimen him feres mide, Wel wopnede men. a1500 Robin Hood & Monk in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1888) III. v. 97 (MED) Take twelue of þi wyght ȝemen, Well weppynd, be þi side. a1525 Eng. Conquest Ireland (Trin. Dublin) (1896) 8 Knyghtes and þe skyers well I-horsed and well y-wepened. 1587 J. Hooker Chron. Ireland 162/2 in Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) II A thousand well weaponed and appointed men. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 108 The foresaid Arch-Bishops..attended with a numerous train of well-weaponed servants. 1670 J. Milton Hist. Brit. ii. 61 Thick upon the shoar stood several gross bands of men well weapn'd. 1764 2nd Let. Common Council City of London 15 A stout and well-weaponed watch be provided. 1787 T. Paine Prospects on Rubicon 64 As soon as Mr. Pitt obtained this knowledge, it appeared to him a safe moment to gird on his sword, and when he found that France was as well weaponed as himself to propose to take it off again. 1840 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Scotl. V. xxxv. 311 The Lords had three thousand men, well weaponed and appointed. 1892 C. G. Leland tr. H. Heine Wks. V. i. iii. 206 There will be well-weaponed Fichteans on the ground, who in the fanaticism of the Will are not to be restrained by fear or self-advantage. 1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 405 To the sound of trumpets shall their seed restore my Cities, Wealthy and well-weaponed. 2004 South China Morning Post (Nexis) 20 June 11 The moral of the battle between the poorly armed David and the well-weaponed giant, Goliath, was one of faith. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1325 |
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