| 释义 |
dimmed, ppl. a.|dɪmd|
[f. dim v. + -ed1.]
Rendered dim.
1590Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 45 Her eyelids blew And dimmed sight..At last she up gan lift. 1594Ord. Prayer in Liturg. Serv. Q. Eliz. (1847) 654 Being..not any clearer enlightened, than by the dimmed glimpse of nature. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems xi. 25 Quhen my dimmit sight greu cleir. 1845Darwin Voy. Nat. ii. (1879) 20 The scene by the dimmed light of the moon was most desolate. 1863Geo. Eliot Romola i. iii, The somewhat dimmed glory of their original gilding.
Hence ˈdimmedness.
1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick vi. ix. (1639) 367 Such as hath not the whitish colour inclining to dimmednesse. |