carnagen.

Brit.

/ˈkɑːnɪdʒ/, U.S.

/ˈkɑrnɪdʒ/

Etymology: < French carnage (16th cent. in Littré), < Italian carnaggio ‘carnage, slaughter, murther; also all manner of flesh meate’ (Florio 1611) < late Latin carnāticum flesh-meat, also, the flesh-meat supplied by tenants to their feudal lords. Old French had the corresponding word charnage, Old Northern French carnage, ‘flesh of animals, meat, feast of flesh, season or day during which flesh is eaten’; it still exists dialectally.

†1. (See quots.) Obsolete (only in dictionaries.)

ΚΠ

1656 T. Blount Glossographia Carnage, flesh-time, or the season wherein 'tis lawful to eat flesh. Also a term in Venery, signifying that flesh which is given the dogs after hunting.

1662 in Phillips

1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Carnage, Flesh that is given to Dogs after the Chace.

2. Carcasses collectively: a heap of dead bodies, esp. of men slain in battle. ? Obsolete (or confused with 3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > pile of

quar?a1475

quarry1573

carnage1667

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 268 Such a sent I [sc. Death] draw Of carnage, prey innumerable.

1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 43 As Vultures o'er a camp..Snuff up the future Carnage of the Fight.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 124 The animals of the forest..mostly live upon accidental carnage.

1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 8 Where those, who scorn'd to fly or yield, In one promiscuous carnage lie.

a. The slaughter of a great number, esp. of men; butchery, massacre.Frequent in Holland, then rare till late in the 18th cent.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun]

sleightc893

wal-slaught?a900

qualeeOE

deathOE

swordc1000

morthOE

slaughta1225

destroyingc1300

drepingc1300

martyrdomc1325

murderc1325

mortc1330

sleighterc1330

slaughter1338

iron and firea1387

murraina1387

manslaughtera1400

martyre?a1400

quella1425

occision?a1430

decease1513

destruction1526

slaughting1535

butchery?1536

butchering1572

massacrea1578

slaughterdom1592

slaughtering1597

carnage1600

massacring1600

slaughtery1604

internecion1610

decimationa1613

destroy1616

trucidation1623

stragea1632

sword-wrack1646

interemption1656

carnifice1657

panolethry1668

butcher work1808

bloodbath1814

populicide1824

man-slaughtering1851

battue1864

mass murder1917

genocide1944

overkill1957

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. 16 The carnage and execution was no lesse after the conflict than during the fight.

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. vii Such as delight only in carnage and bloudshed.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Carnage, a great slaughter.

1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 281 A slight resistance was followed by a dreadful carnage.

1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos ii. xx. 424 Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease—He makes a solitude—and calls it—peace!

b. Slaughter personified.

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1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. x. 926 Carnage smiled upon her daily dead.

1816 W. Wordsworth Ode Gen. Thanksgiving viii Yea, Carnage is Thy daughter.

Compounds

carnage-field, carnage-lover; carnage-coloured, carnage-covered, carnage-loving adjs.

ΚΠ

1721 C. Cibber Refusal ii. 31 These Carnage Lovers have such a Meanness in their Souls.

1800 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope 92 Carnage-cover'd fields.

1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 90 The dragon, carnage-coloured, signifies Rome.

1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 131 The carnage-loving character of the infidel Anti-christ.

1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. viii. 416 One of those Carnage-fields, such as you read of by the name ‘Glorious Victory’.

Draft additions October 2009

figurative. Widespread damage or ruin, devastation; chaos, disorder.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation

harryingc900

harrowingc1000

wastinga1300

destructionc1330

harryc1330

wastenessa1382

wastitya1382

desolation1382

unroningnessa1400

wrackc1407

exile1436

havoc1480

hership1487

vastation1545

vastitude1545

sackc1550

population1552

waste1560

ravishment1570

riotingc1580

pull-down1588

desolating1591

degast1592

devastation1603

ravage1611

wracking1611

ravagement1766

herriment1787

carnage1848

wastage1909

enhavocking-

the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > chaos

havoc1480

chaos?1533

tohu-bohu1619

Tophet1837

carnage1848

choss1937

1848 G. Spring Power of Pulpit vi. 80 Voltaire ‘made a desert, and called it peace’. It was a desert truly, such a moral wilderness, created in a Christian land, as the world had never seen before, nor since; it was carnage.

1904 Commonw. Austral. Parl. Deb. 22 5730/2 Josiah Symon.—I was just going to ask why there should have been all this political carnage. Senator Givens.—Because the present Government wanted office at any cost.

1973 Times 30 July 19/6 The resulting carnage is camouflaged by the Dow Jones industrial average.

1995 Loaded July 124/4 I woke at 7pm staring at a ceiling fan in a strange room littered with my spring/summer collection. It was total carnage, we had missed a radio show interview and we were four hours late.

2006 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 174/1 So thick and tangy was the disenchantment with the Republican Congress..that some were predicting carnage akin to the 1994 midterms.

Draft additions October 2009

In weakened sense: violence, vicious fighting, esp. in which one combatant wins easily.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > fierce or furious

woodnessc1000

fiercetya1382

furiosity1509

bremeness?1529

fury1534

carnage1902

1902 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. (Mag. Suppl.) 3/3 Sopskel had never had boxing gloves on his hands before, and so I had him at a disadvantage, to say the least... Sopskel..made a wild dash for the carriage in which they had driven to the field of carnage.

1937 Life 13 Sept. 35/1 What was generally expected to be an evening of one-sided carnage resolved itself for the most part into a comparatively inconclusive jabbing match.

1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell ii. 21 Lowell's natural competitiveness had no focus. It found its expression in..dormitory punch-ups or carnage on the sports field.

2006 F. Kiernan & G. Hemphill Still Game: Scripts I. v. 140 So what are you daein while this carnage is gaun on? Gein the ned a scheme bootin', no doubt?

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	carnage
释义	carnagen. Brit. /ˈkɑːnɪdʒ/, U.S. /ˈkɑrnɪdʒ/ Etymology: < French carnage (16th cent. in Littré), < Italian carnaggio ‘carnage, slaughter, murther; also all manner of flesh meate’ (Florio 1611) < late Latin carnāticum flesh-meat, also, the flesh-meat supplied by tenants to their feudal lords. Old French had the corresponding word charnage, Old Northern French carnage, ‘flesh of animals, meat, feast of flesh, season or day during which flesh is eaten’; it still exists dialectally. †1. (See quots.) Obsolete (only in dictionaries.) ΚΠ 1656 T. Blount Glossographia Carnage, flesh-time, or the season wherein 'tis lawful to eat flesh. Also a term in Venery, signifying that flesh which is given the dogs after hunting. 1662 in Phillips 1721–1800 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Carnage, Flesh that is given to Dogs after the Chace. 2. Carcasses collectively: a heap of dead bodies, esp. of men slain in battle. ? Obsolete (or confused with 3). ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > dead body > [noun] > pile of quar?a1475 quarry1573 carnage1667 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 268 Such a sent I [sc. Death] draw Of carnage, prey innumerable. View more context for this quotation 1716 J. Gay Trivia ii. 43 As Vultures o'er a camp..Snuff up the future Carnage of the Fight. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 124 The animals of the forest..mostly live upon accidental carnage. 1842 R. H. Barham Black Mousquetaire in Ingoldsby Legends 2nd Ser. 8 Where those, who scorn'd to fly or yield, In one promiscuous carnage lie. 3. a. The slaughter of a great number, esp. of men; butchery, massacre.Frequent in Holland, then rare till late in the 18th cent. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] sleightc893 wal-slaught?a900 qualeeOE deathOE swordc1000 morthOE slaughta1225 destroyingc1300 drepingc1300 martyrdomc1325 murderc1325 mortc1330 sleighterc1330 slaughter1338 iron and firea1387 murraina1387 manslaughtera1400 martyre?a1400 quella1425 occision?a1430 decease1513 destruction1526 slaughting1535 butchery?1536 butchering1572 massacrea1578 slaughterdom1592 slaughtering1597 carnage1600 massacring1600 slaughtery1604 internecion1610 decimationa1613 destroy1616 trucidation1623 stragea1632 sword-wrack1646 interemption1656 carnifice1657 panolethry1668 butcher work1808 bloodbath1814 populicide1824 man-slaughtering1851 battue1864 mass murder1917 genocide1944 overkill1957 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. ii. 16 The carnage and execution was no lesse after the conflict than during the fight. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. vii. vii Such as delight only in carnage and bloudshed. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Carnage, a great slaughter. 1776 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall I. xiii. 281 A slight resistance was followed by a dreadful carnage. 1813 Ld. Byron Bride Abydos ii. xx. 424 Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease—He makes a solitude—and calls it—peace! b. Slaughter personified. ΚΠ 1814 Ld. Byron Lara ii. x. 926 Carnage smiled upon her daily dead. 1816 W. Wordsworth Ode Gen. Thanksgiving viii Yea, Carnage is Thy daughter. Compounds carnage-field, carnage-lover; carnage-coloured, carnage-covered, carnage-loving adjs. ΚΠ 1721 C. Cibber Refusal ii. 31 These Carnage Lovers have such a Meanness in their Souls. 1800 T. Campbell Pleasures of Hope 92 Carnage-cover'd fields. 1826 E. Irving Babylon I. ii. 90 The dragon, carnage-coloured, signifies Rome. 1826 E. Irving Babylon II. vi. 131 The carnage-loving character of the infidel Anti-christ. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. viii. 416 One of those Carnage-fields, such as you read of by the name ‘Glorious Victory’. Draft additions October 2009 figurative. Widespread damage or ruin, devastation; chaos, disorder. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > devastation or desolation harryingc900 harrowingc1000 wastinga1300 destructionc1330 harryc1330 wastenessa1382 wastitya1382 desolation1382 unroningnessa1400 wrackc1407 exile1436 havoc1480 hership1487 vastation1545 vastitude1545 sackc1550 population1552 waste1560 ravishment1570 riotingc1580 pull-down1588 desolating1591 degast1592 devastation1603 ravage1611 wracking1611 ravagement1766 herriment1787 carnage1848 wastage1909 enhavocking- the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > chaos havoc1480 chaos?1533 tohu-bohu1619 Tophet1837 carnage1848 choss1937 1848 G. Spring Power of Pulpit vi. 80 Voltaire ‘made a desert, and called it peace’. It was a desert truly, such a moral wilderness, created in a Christian land, as the world had never seen before, nor since; it was carnage. 1904 Commonw. Austral. Parl. Deb. 22 5730/2 Josiah Symon.—I was just going to ask why there should have been all this political carnage. Senator Givens.—Because the present Government wanted office at any cost. 1973 Times 30 July 19/6 The resulting carnage is camouflaged by the Dow Jones industrial average. 1995 Loaded July 124/4 I woke at 7pm staring at a ceiling fan in a strange room littered with my spring/summer collection. It was total carnage, we had missed a radio show interview and we were four hours late. 2006 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Dec. 174/1 So thick and tangy was the disenchantment with the Republican Congress..that some were predicting carnage akin to the 1994 midterms. Draft additions October 2009 In weakened sense: violence, vicious fighting, esp. in which one combatant wins easily. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > violent behaviour > [noun] > fierce or furious woodnessc1000 fiercetya1382 furiosity1509 bremeness?1529 fury1534 carnage1902 1902 N.Y. Times 16 Nov. (Mag. Suppl.) 3/3 Sopskel had never had boxing gloves on his hands before, and so I had him at a disadvantage, to say the least... Sopskel..made a wild dash for the carriage in which they had driven to the field of carnage. 1937 Life 13 Sept. 35/1 What was generally expected to be an evening of one-sided carnage resolved itself for the most part into a comparatively inconclusive jabbing match. 1982 I. Hamilton Robert Lowell ii. 21 Lowell's natural competitiveness had no focus. It found its expression in..dormitory punch-ups or carnage on the sports field. 2006 F. Kiernan & G. Hemphill Still Game: Scripts I. v. 140 So what are you daein while this carnage is gaun on? Gein the ned a scheme bootin', no doubt? 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