| 释义 |
ˈfiendlike, a.
[f. as prec. + -like.]
a. Resembling a fiend.
b. Characteristic of a fiend.
1605Shakes. Macb. v. viii. 69 His Fiend-like Queene; Who..by selfe and violent hands, Tooke off her life. 1716Rowe Ode New Year 19 Ev'ry Fiend and Fiend-like Form. 1774Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. 160 The last circumstance recalls a fiend-like appearance drawn by Shakspeare. 1804J. Grahame Sabbath 591 Their little ones, Tremble beneath the white man's fiend-like frown! 1854J. S. C. Abbott Napoleon (1855) I. viii. 150 With fiendlike ferocity they hurled themselves upon each other. |