afflictedadj.n.

Brit.

/əˈflɪktᵻd/, U.S.

/əˈflɪktᵻd/

Forms: see afflict v. and -ed suffix¹; also 1600s eflicted.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: afflict v., -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < afflict v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier afflict adj.

A. adj.

1. Grievously distressed, tormented; troubled; oppressed, downtrodden. Also: suggestive of or characterized by affliction.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective]

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1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1389/2 Judas..tooke a speciall pleasure to see them so aflyghted.

1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. I.iij^v Many afflicted & troubled consciences by the doctrine of our preachers haue taken comfort, after that they haue herde say, that it was the commaundement of god.

1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood xxi. f. 279 With an afflicted voice he sayde: Who art thou sir knight, that art come vnto so sorrowfull a dwelling?

1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xii. 109 Crossing her arms, in such disconsolate and afflicted manner, as Adriana could not likewise refraine from teares to behold her.

1664 R. Lowe Jrnl. in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 175 I was in avery (sic) eflicetd Estate.

1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 44. ¶4 An afflicted Widow in her Mourning-Weeds.

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 255 Some secret counsellor was permitted, amidst the factions of the palace, to heal the wounds of that afflicted country.

1858 W. H. Hurlburt Americans in Paris ii. i. 22 (stage direct.) With an afflicted air.

1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 279 Here the afflicted Pamela began to sob hysterically.

1906 H. James in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 857 A soft inward dirge over the eternal ‘false position’ of the afflicted South.

1934 L. Charteris Boodle i. 26 Simon Templar nodded..listening to..Immelbern's afflicted voice.

1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice ii. 97 Some idle morbid curiosity such as attracts spectators to afflicted people, as it attracts them to any catastrophe.

2001 T. Irons-Georges America's Hist. Sites II. 857/2 The central ministry in Mount Lebanon would regularly send out appeals to other settlements to send cash and assistance to the afflicted village.

2. Of a person or animal: affected by or suffering from a disease or other condition; mentally or physically ill or unfit; disabled. Also (of a part of the body): diseased; unhealthy. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > ill health > [adjective] > in state of ill health or diseased

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1574 G. Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale sig. Ei^v First the hurted and afflcted partie must vse this Regiment following.

1576 T. Rogers Philos. Disc.: Anat. Minde ii. 76 The discommodities of an afflicted bodie.

1642 D. Lakin Miraculous Cure of Prusian Swallow-knife 132 Did the afflicted Patient suffer the paines of the wound?

1690 J. Howe Funeral Serm. for Mrs. Esther Sampson 9 A poor afflicted woman, labouring under bodily infirmity.

1726 R. Blackmore Treat. Spleen & Vapours (new ed.) 99 This affords no Advantage or Comfort to the afflicted Patients.

1796 C. Lamb Let. (1935) I. 8 From your afflicted headachey sorethroatey, humble Servant.

a1828 J. Townsend Memoirs (1828) iv. 39 A letter from a poor fisherman, soliciting attention to his afflicted child.

1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 228 Carefully washing the afflicted part with the resin of the copal-tree.

1902 E. Nesbit Five Children & It ii. 61 Touched in the head, eh?.. All the more shame to you boys dragging the poor afflicted child into your sinful burglaries.

1934 E. Bowen Cat Jumps 64 Annabelle was not ‘afflicted’; she simply did not grow up. Inside the big, bustling form of a woman she was a girl of ten.

1960 K. A. Porter Let. 6 Mar. (1990) x. 576 The spareness of her afflicted little body.

2010 Nature 14 Jan. 144/1 The snowy-white fungus..that grows on the muzzle and sometimes on the wings of afflicted bats.

†3. Dejected, downcast; humble; humiliated. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > humility > [adjective]

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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > [adjective]

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1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. Proem iv. sig. A2^v The argument of mine afflicted stile.

1595 E. Spenser Amoretti ii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A2^v And with meeke humblesse and afflicted mood.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 186 And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy.

4. Astrology. Affected by an inauspicious planetary aspect; under a harmful or malefic influence. Cf. afflict v. 4.

ΚΠ

1645 W. Lilly Starry Messenger sig. *2 An Vtopian judgement Master Wharton, that the afflicted moone in the sixt should teach us slavery.

1662 in Dict. National Biogr. (1891) at Heydon, John When I seriously perused my nativity, I found the seventh house afflicted.

1891 Astrologers' Mag. Dec. 388 As Mercury partakes of the nature of the planet in nearest aspect to him, which, in this case, is Mars, and as the aspect is evil, he acts as an afflicted Mars.

1918 M. Heindel & A. F. Heindel Message of Stars (ed. 3) x. 252 A person with an afflicted Saturn in the Sixth House finds it almost impossible to secure employment.

1996 D. L. Cramer How to give Astrol. Health Reading ii. 25 With the Moon's rulership of fluids and mucous production, her afflicted Moon could indicate water retention..leading to sluggishness and fatigue.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Those who are afflicted; afflicted people collectively. Also occasionally as singular: an afflicted person.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction > wretched person

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1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xii.) f. 243^v The litle tyme apereth so longe to the afflicted.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalms David xxii. 61 Th'afflicted then shall eate, and be well pleased.

1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxiv. 28 He heareth the cry of the afflicted .

1671 I. Barrow Duty & Reward of Bounty 212 When he is departed hence..he [sc. the bountiful man] supervives in the heart of the Afflicted.

1732 Belle Assemblée 2 264 The first word this Fair Afflicted utter'd, had surpriz'd Gasan with such an excess of Joy, that he was little able to comprehend the Latter part of her Discourse.

1756 J. Bate Enq. Similitudes Lord God 335 Can one help looking on..the Afflictors, or the Afflicted, as predictive of what Ægypt was to be.

1820 Examiner No. 618. 109/1 How generous to take up the cause of the afflicted!

1851 H. Spencer Social Statics 318 We have to consider, not only what is done for the afflicted, but what is the reactive effect upon those who do it.

1910 Jrnl. New Mexico Med. Sci. 5 90 To..withhold this therapeutic measure from an afflicted who is in condition to enjoy its benefit is..wrong.

1991 N.Y. Mag. 9 Sept. 34/1 She is puzzled by the proliferation of groups for ‘co-dependents’, the people who coddle the addicted and afflicted.

2004 Independent 16 Dec. 40/2 Millions of church-goers make a difference in their own small way..helping the sick, the afflicted, the lonely, the elderly and the poor.

Phrases

to mock the afflicted: to speak or behave maliciously, insultingly, or insensitively to someone already in distress or suffering misfortune; now (chiefly British) often used hyperbolically in negative contexts, as don't mock the afflicted.

ΚΠ

1838 Youth's Compan. 27 Apr. 200 He even mocked the afflicted; drove away the beggar; insulted the aged.

1846 F. L. Mortimer Light in Dwelling 156 We should but mock the afflicted, if we were to say [to a grieving widow], ‘Weep not’.

1885 Baily's Mag. Sept. 440 It would have seemed like mocking the afflicted to have held a semi-sporting gathering in the breezy Derbyshire town [sc. Buxton]. To have paraded before them horses that they could not mount would have only reminded them of their ailments.

1958 Spectator 31 Oct. 577/3 He fumbles a line or two in the process and forgets himself enough to rebuke the audience for thinking this is all part of the act—‘Oooh, it's wicked to mock the afflicted’, he shouts with a squirm and a grimace.

1973 Guardian 19 Dec. 10/1 They're laughing at that funny man [sc. the comedian Ken Dodd] with the teeth that stick out and the hair that stands up. But you told us that we shouldn't mock the afflicted.

2004 People (Nexis) 22 Aug. 40 I won't go on too much about the Hammers, because good Northerners don't mock the afflicted.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	afflicted
释义	afflictedadj.n. Brit. /əˈflɪktᵻd/, U.S. /əˈflɪktᵻd/ Forms: see afflict v. and -ed suffix¹; also 1600s eflicted. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: afflict v., -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < afflict v. + -ed suffix¹. Compare earlier afflict adj. A. adj. 1. Grievously distressed, tormented; troubled; oppressed, downtrodden. Also: suggestive of or characterized by affliction. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [adjective] poorc1300 afflicta1393 mistada1400 aggrudged1440 afflicted1534 tribulate1575 distressed1586 rid1610 over-grieved1618 ridden1640 tribulated1682 hag-rid1691 crosseda1732 bad off1735 badly off1740 unfortunate1785 1534 T. More Treat. Passion in Wks. (1557) 1389/2 Judas..tooke a speciall pleasure to see them so aflyghted. 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes sig. I.iij^v Many afflicted & troubled consciences by the doctrine of our preachers haue taken comfort, after that they haue herde say, that it was the commaundement of god. 1583 R. P. tr. P. de la Sierra Second Pt. Myrror of Knighthood xxi. f. 279 With an afflicted voice he sayde: Who art thou sir knight, that art come vnto so sorrowfull a dwelling? 1623 J. Reynolds Triumphs Gods Revenge: 3rd Bk. xii. 109 Crossing her arms, in such disconsolate and afflicted manner, as Adriana could not likewise refraine from teares to behold her. 1664 R. Lowe Jrnl. in B. Cusack Everyday Eng. 1500–1700 (1998) 175 I was in avery (sic) eflicetd Estate. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 44. ¶4 An afflicted Widow in her Mourning-Weeds. 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall III. 255 Some secret counsellor was permitted, amidst the factions of the palace, to heal the wounds of that afflicted country. 1858 W. H. Hurlburt Americans in Paris ii. i. 22 (stage direct.) With an afflicted air. 1879 M. E. Braddon Vixen III. 279 Here the afflicted Pamela began to sob hysterically. 1906 H. James in Fortn. Rev. Nov. 857 A soft inward dirge over the eternal ‘false position’ of the afflicted South. 1934 L. Charteris Boodle i. 26 Simon Templar nodded..listening to..Immelbern's afflicted voice. 1985 I. Murdoch Good Apprentice ii. 97 Some idle morbid curiosity such as attracts spectators to afflicted people, as it attracts them to any catastrophe. 2001 T. Irons-Georges America's Hist. Sites II. 857/2 The central ministry in Mount Lebanon would regularly send out appeals to other settlements to send cash and assistance to the afflicted village. 2. Of a person or animal: affected by or suffering from a disease or other condition; mentally or physically ill or unfit; disabled. Also (of a part of the body): diseased; unhealthy. Also figurative. 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Baker tr. Composition Oleum Magistrale sig. Ei^v First the hurted and afflcted partie must vse this Regiment following. 1576 T. Rogers Philos. Disc.: Anat. Minde ii. 76 The discommodities of an afflicted bodie. 1642 D. Lakin Miraculous Cure of Prusian Swallow-knife 132 Did the afflicted Patient suffer the paines of the wound? 1690 J. Howe Funeral Serm. for Mrs. Esther Sampson 9 A poor afflicted woman, labouring under bodily infirmity. 1726 R. Blackmore Treat. Spleen & Vapours (new ed.) 99 This affords no Advantage or Comfort to the afflicted Patients. 1796 C. Lamb Let. (1935) I. 8 From your afflicted headachey sorethroatey, humble Servant. a1828 J. Townsend Memoirs (1828) iv. 39 A letter from a poor fisherman, soliciting attention to his afflicted child. 1899 H. B. Cushman Hist. Indians 228 Carefully washing the afflicted part with the resin of the copal-tree. 1902 E. Nesbit Five Children & It ii. 61 Touched in the head, eh?.. All the more shame to you boys dragging the poor afflicted child into your sinful burglaries. 1934 E. Bowen Cat Jumps 64 Annabelle was not ‘afflicted’; she simply did not grow up. Inside the big, bustling form of a woman she was a girl of ten. 1960 K. A. Porter Let. 6 Mar. (1990) x. 576 The spareness of her afflicted little body. 2010 Nature 14 Jan. 144/1 The snowy-white fungus..that grows on the muzzle and sometimes on the wings of afflicted bats. †3. Dejected, downcast; humble; humiliated. Obsolete. 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Spenser Faerie Queene i. Proem iv. sig. A2^v The argument of mine afflicted stile. 1595 E. Spenser Amoretti ii, in Amoretti & Epithalamion sig. A2^v And with meeke humblesse and afflicted mood. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 186 And reassembling our afflicted Powers, Consult how we may henceforth most offend Our Enemy. View more context for this quotation 4. Astrology. Affected by an inauspicious planetary aspect; under a harmful or malefic influence. Cf. afflict v. 4. ΚΠ 1645 W. Lilly Starry Messenger sig. 2 An Vtopian judgement Master Wharton, that the afflicted moone in the sixt should teach us slavery. 1662 in Dict. National Biogr.* (1891) at Heydon, John When I seriously perused my nativity, I found the seventh house afflicted. 1891 Astrologers' Mag. Dec. 388 As Mercury partakes of the nature of the planet in nearest aspect to him, which, in this case, is Mars, and as the aspect is evil, he acts as an afflicted Mars. 1918 M. Heindel & A. F. Heindel Message of Stars (ed. 3) x. 252 A person with an afflicted Saturn in the Sixth House finds it almost impossible to secure employment. 1996 D. L. Cramer How to give Astrol. Health Reading ii. 25 With the Moon's rulership of fluids and mucous production, her afflicted Moon could indicate water retention..leading to sluggishness and fatigue. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Those who are afflicted; afflicted people collectively. Also occasionally as singular: an afflicted person. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > tribulation, trouble, or affliction > wretched person wretchc1000 caitiffc1325 crachouna1400 wretcheda1425 miserable1484 miser1542 afflicted1545 seggon1570 elf1573 devil1593 wreck1795 1545 G. Joye Expos. Daniel (xii.) f. 243^v The litle tyme apereth so longe to the afflicted. a1586 Sir P. Sidney tr. Psalms David xxii. 61 Th'afflicted then shall eate, and be well pleased. 1611 Bible (King James) Job xxxiv. 28 He heareth the cry of the afflicted . View more context for this quotation 1671 I. Barrow Duty & Reward of Bounty 212 When he is departed hence..he [sc. the bountiful man] supervives in the heart of the Afflicted. 1732 Belle Assemblée 2 264 The first word this Fair Afflicted utter'd, had surpriz'd Gasan with such an excess of Joy, that he was little able to comprehend the Latter part of her Discourse. 1756 J. Bate Enq. Similitudes Lord God 335 Can one help looking on..the Afflictors, or the Afflicted, as predictive of what Ægypt was to be. 1820 Examiner No. 618. 109/1 How generous to take up the cause of the afflicted! 1851 H. Spencer Social Statics 318 We have to consider, not only what is done for the afflicted, but what is the reactive effect upon those who do it. 1910 Jrnl. New Mexico Med. Sci. 5 90 To..withhold this therapeutic measure from an afflicted who is in condition to enjoy its benefit is..wrong. 1991 N.Y. Mag. 9 Sept. 34/1 She is puzzled by the proliferation of groups for ‘co-dependents’, the people who coddle the addicted and afflicted. 2004 Independent 16 Dec. 40/2 Millions of church-goers make a difference in their own small way..helping the sick, the afflicted, the lonely, the elderly and the poor. Phrases to mock the afflicted: to speak or behave maliciously, insultingly, or insensitively to someone already in distress or suffering misfortune; now (chiefly British) often used hyperbolically in negative contexts, as don't mock the afflicted. ΚΠ 1838 Youth's Compan. 27 Apr. 200 He even mocked the afflicted; drove away the beggar; insulted the aged. 1846 F. L. Mortimer Light in Dwelling 156 We should but mock the afflicted, if we were to say [to a grieving widow], ‘Weep not’. 1885 Baily's Mag. Sept. 440 It would have seemed like mocking the afflicted to have held a semi-sporting gathering in the breezy Derbyshire town [sc. Buxton]. To have paraded before them horses that they could not mount would have only reminded them of their ailments. 1958 Spectator 31 Oct. 577/3 He fumbles a line or two in the process and forgets himself enough to rebuke the audience for thinking this is all part of the act—‘Oooh, it's wicked to mock the afflicted’, he shouts with a squirm and a grimace. 1973 Guardian 19 Dec. 10/1 They're laughing at that funny man [sc. the comedian Ken Dodd] with the teeth that stick out and the hair that stands up. But you told us that we shouldn't mock the afflicted. 2004 People (Nexis) 22 Aug. 40 I won't go on too much about the Hammers, because good Northerners don't mock the afflicted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1534
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