| 释义 |
unˈexercised, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not employed or made use of; not put in force or practised.
c1374Chaucer Boeth. ii. pr. vii. (1868) 56 Þat is to seyn, þat list þat or he wex olde, His uertue þat lay now ful stille ne sholde nat perisshe vnexcercised in gouernaunce of comune. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 86 Let neuer ony parte of thy good day passe and scape the vnexercysed. 1562J. Shute Cambini's Turk. Wars 19 A place wherein no filthie exercise was left unexercised. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. 19 Their Comitiall courts like desarts, wilde and unexercised. 1671Clarendon Hist. Reb. ix. §42 The enemy left no manner of barbarous cruelty unexercised that day. 1796F. Burney Camilla II. 278 Her judgment and penetration had been wholly unexercised. 1893Fairbairn in Selbie Life vii. (1914) 247 Certain faculties would remain unexercised.
2. Not taking exercise; remaining inactive; not put in motion; left unmoved or unstirred.
1562Turner Baths 6 Some other [men]..eat euell and vnholsome meates,..and then being vnexercised..make much euill humours. 1607Topsell Four-f. Beasts 273 Be not afraid..of this sluggish and vnexercised people, for..they stir not out of the City. 1624Wotton Archit. i. 3 That it [sc. air] be not..vndigested, for want of sunne, not unexercised for want of winde.
3. Of persons: Not accustomed or prepared by training or practice; untrained.
1577tr. Bullinger's Decades i. iii. (1592) 24 Whereby we gather, that the scripture is difficult or obscure to the vnlearned, vnskilfull, vnexercised, and malicious..wils. 1623Bingham Xenophon, Comp. Wars, An vnexercised Souldier is alwaies raw, though he haue serued neuer so long. a1653Gouge Comm. Heb. xii. 5 This teacheth us..to fit and prepare ourselves for tryals. An unexercised man will not dare to enter into the list. 1702Echard Eccl. Hist. (1710) 599 Some few..being unprepared and unexercised, through fear and frailty, fell away. 1768–74Tucker Lt. Nat. (1834) I. 377 Unexercised in their understandings and unpractised in the ways of men. 1802Lamb Cooke's Rich. III, Wks. 1908 I. 47 Breaking out into..plaudits at its own success, like an unexercised noviciate in tricks.
transf.1587W. Fowler Wks. (S.T.S.) I. 16 With my vnexcercised style [to] debaise suche graces. |