释义 |
unaˈvoided, ppl. a. [un-1 8.] 1. Not avoided or escaped.
1565Golding Ovid's Met. ii. 24 b, Phebus..by and by with deadly stripe of unauoyded blow strake through the breast. 1596Drayton Legends iv. 670 O powerfull Doome of unavoyded Fate. 1616B. Jonson Epigr. i. xciv, Yet, Satires, since the most of mankind bee Their vn-auoided subiect, fewest see. 1642H. More Song Soul iv. xix, The silent Preachers thoughts..will..Find each man out, and in a moment hit With unavoyded force. 1842Is. Williams Baptistery i. ix. (1874) 109 Every night He sends his image, wraps us in his cove Of unavoided sleep. †2. a. Unavoidable; inevitable. Obs.
1591Shakes. 1 Hen. VI, iv. v. 8 A terrible and vnauoyded danger. 1594― Rich. III, iv. iv. 218 All vnauoyded is the doome of Destiny. †b. Unexceptionable; irrefutable. Obs.—1
1617Middleton Fair Quarrel v. i, Mine accusation shall haue firme euidence. I will produce an unauoided witnes. |