| 释义 |
undeˈclined, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Gram. Having no cases marked by variations in the termination.
In the following quot. the meaning is not clear:—1509 Fisher 7 Penit. Ps. xxxviii. ee vij, This verbe morior after saynt Augustyne is vndeclyned.
1530Palsgr. 77 Partes that be undeclyned. novs and rovs remayne undeclyned. 1565Cooper Thesaurus (*) 4 This varietie of construction is not onely to be considered in the diuersity of cases, but also of other partes vndeclined. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. vi. (1627) 56 The other foure last are undeclined; that is, such as cannot be so turned, and have but onely one ending. a1721Prior Dial. Dead, Chas. & Clenard ⁋2 Adverb, Conjonction, Preposition, Interjection undeclined. 1733J. Bramston Man of Taste 6 Good Parts are better than Eight Parts of Speech: Since these declin'd those undeclin'd they call, I thank my Stars, that I declin'd 'em all.
†2. Not turned aside. Obs.—1
1638G. Sandys Paraphr. Job 31 For in his tract my wary feet have stept; His undeclined wayes precisely kept. |