| 释义 |
anhungered, ppl. a. arch.|ænˈhʌŋgəd|
[app. for earlier a-hungred (an- for a- before vowel: see an- prefix 5):—of-hungred:—OE. of-hyngrod (cf. a-thirst, OE. of-þyrsted, a-down, OE. of-dúne): see a-hungered, of-hungered. Later variants were en-hungered, in-hungered; the sequence being apparently of-, a-, an-, en-, in-.]
1. Overcome with hunger, hungry.
c1300K. Alis. 1229 The folk and the poraile weoren an-hungred. 1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 59 (Oriel MS.) Bothe an-hungred [v.r. afyngerd, a-hungred] and a-þrist. 1398Trevisa Barth. De P.R. vi. ix. (1495) 195 The nouryce fedyth the childe whan it is an hungred. 1526Tindale Matt. xii. 1 His disciples wer anhongred. 1557Genev., anhongred. 1611Bible, an hungred. [So 1881 Revised.]
2. fig. Eagerly desirous, longing.
1848Lowell Poet. Wks. 1879, 398 Anhungered for some joy untried. 1881Swinburne Mary Stewart iv. i, My people seems in sooth Hot and anhungered on this trail of hers. |