释义 |
unˈscathed, ppl. a. (un-1 8. Cf. ON. and Icel. ú-, óskaðaðr, MSw. oskadhad, Sw. oskadad.) Before 19th cent. Sc. and somewhat rare.
c1375Sc. Leg. Saints vii. (James min.) 608 Þat I and þai..In gud fath sal vnschait be. 1425Sc. Acts Parlt., Jas. I (1814) II. 11/2 Quhil it be knawin..at þe cuntre be vnscaithit of þaim. 1461Extr. Aberd. Reg. (1844) I. 22 That man..sal..kepe the toun vnscathit..of all dettis and chargis acht be hym. 1567–8Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 613 To be unharmit, unskaythit, or unmolestit be ony of the liegis. 1787Burns Tam Samson's Elegie xvii, Unskaith'd by Death's gleg gullie, Tam Samson's livin! 1827Lytton Falkland 25, I passed through the ordeal unshrinking, yet not unscathed. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 103 That intellect which had conducted them unscathed through such..dangers. 1882A. W. Ward Dickens i. 9 Whatever his experiences of this kind may have been, he passed unscathed through them. |