| 释义 |
declined, ppl. a.
(dɪˈklaɪnd, poet. dɪˈklaɪnɪd)
[f. decline v. + -ed1.]
Turned aside, deflected; sloped, oblique; brought low, debased, decayed; advanced towards its close: see the verb.
1591Declar. Gt. Troubles in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 210 Now in his declined yeeres. 1593Shakes. Lucr. 1705 My low declined Honor to aduance. 1667Hale Prim. Orig. Man. i. i. 10 Their declined Motions. 1792C. Smith Desmond I. 129 Ecclesiastics..whose declined authority..you regret. 1798Washington Let. Writ. (1893) XIV. 38 My earnest wish, that the choice had fallen on a man less declined in years.
Hence deˈclinedness.
1648Bp. Hall Select Thoughts §68 The common fault of age, loquacity, is a plain evidence of the world's declinedness. |