单词 | castaway |
释义 | castawayadj.n. A. adj. a. Thrown away, cast off, rejected; reprobate; ‘useless, of no value’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > [adjective] unkind1340 desolatec1386 unthrifty1388 virtueless1402 unvirtuous1432 dissolutec1475 castaway?1542 bastardlyc1567 regenerate1596 perdite1625 profligate1627 deperdit1641 profligated1652 abandoned1690 the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] shedc1430 castaway?1542 outcastc1560 discarded1593 moulted1776 out-thrown1869 junked1915 the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > disadvantage > uselessness > misuse > [adjective] > wasted castaway?1542 consumed1580 profligated1599 profligate1718 wasted1741 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [adjective] > reprobate ungracious?c1225 gracelessc1400 reprobate1557 abrupt1583 perditious1600 perdite1625 deperdit1641 castaway1818 ?1542 H. Brinkelow Complaynt Roderyck Mors xvi. sig. E2v Masterles and castaway courtyers. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) i. xv. sig. K3v Certaine cast-awaie vowes how, much he would doo for her sake. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. ii. §3. 28 We..(only remember at our cast-away leisure) the imprisoned immortall Soule. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian vi, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. III. 148 If I had minded..I had never been the cast-away creature that I am. 1876 D. Page Adv. Text-bk. Geol. (ed. 6) xx. 413 Castaway bones of the deer, bear, and wild-ox. b. Cast adrift, stranded. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > shipwreck > [adjective] > shipwrecked ship-broken13.. naufraged1490 shipwreck1573 wracked1581 shipwreckeda1593 wreckeda1728 castaway1769 the mind > possession > relinquishing > casting or laying aside > [adjective] > stranded castaway1885 1769 W. Falconer Universal Dict. Marine Suppl. Cast-away, the state of a ship which is lost..on a lee-shore, bank, or shallow. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 75 A young lady and a mass of baggage standing castaway at midnight on the streets of London. B. n. a. One who or that which is cast away or rejected; a reprobate. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > dissolute conduct > dissolute person > [noun] unthriftc1330 castaway1526 degenerate1555 rakehellc1560 ruffian1560 reprobate1592 rakeshame1598 wag-wanton1601 pavement-beater1611 perdu1611 wantoner1665 profligate1679 rantipole1699 rakehellyc1768 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > [noun] > reprobacy > person gracelessc1405 castaway1526 losthope?c1550 reprobate1592 want-grace1603 perdu1611 slack-grace1623 1526 Bible (Tyndale) 2 Cor. xiii. 5 Knowe ye not..how that Jesus Christ is in you excepte ye be castawayes [ Cranmer cast a wayes, Coverd. cast awayes, Rhem. & 1611 reprobates]. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes Passion ii, in J. Griffiths Two Bks. Homilies (1859) ii. 419 Plaine reprobates and castawaies, being perpetually damned to the everlasting paines of hell-fire. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III ii. ii. 6 Why doe you..call vs wretches, Orphanes, castawaies . View more context for this quotation 1611 Bible (King James) 1 Cor. ix. 27. 1829 R. Southey All for Love ii. 22 ‘Dost thou..For ever pledge thyself to me?’..‘I do; so help me, Satan!’ said The wilful castaway. 1871 E. F. Burr Ad Fidem xi. 220 Castaways from God. b. esp. One cast adrift at sea; a shipwrecked man. Also figurative (from both senses) One cast adrift upon the world, or by society, an outcast. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > one who travels by water or sea > [noun] > shipwrecked person naufrague1681 castaway1799 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast outcastc1390 outwalea1400 abjection1447 abject1528 overcast1574 rejectament1681 castaway1799 pariah1818 leper1825 cagot1844 Ishmaelite1848 hinin1884 expellee1888 eta1897 Ishmael1899 reject1917 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > solitude or solitariness > [noun] > state of being left alone or forlorn > person > shipwrecked or marooned person naufrague1681 castaway1799 maroon1883 Crusoe1907 1799 W. Cowper (title) The Castaway. 1816 J. Wilson City of Plague i. iii. 92 A lone castaway upon the sea. 1834 F. Marryat Jacob Faithful II. i. 27 Those who..leave it [sc. youth] to drift about the world, have to answer for the cast-away. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Felise 80 [Such things] As the sea feeds on, wreck and stray and castaway. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals II. i. 36 The moral wellbeing of the castaways of Society. 1870 Times 27 Aug. 4/4 The visit of Her Majesty's ship Blanche to the Auckland Islands in search of the castaways of the Motoaka. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1526 |
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