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单词 maudlin
释义 I. maudlin, n.|ˈmɔːdlɪn|
Forms: 4–5 maudeleyne, mawd(e)leyn, 4, 6 maudelen, 5 mawdelayn, -en, 6 maud(e)lene, -elein, -elyn, -lein(e, mawdel(e)in, -(e)leyn, 6–7 maudlen, mawdlin, 7 maudline, mawdlen, -line.
[a. OF. Madelaine, semi-popular ad. L. Magdalēna, Magdalene.]
1. As proper name: = Magdalen 1. Obs.
c1320R. Brunne Medit. 445 To maudelens hous Ion went.c1380Wyclif Serm. Sel. Wks. I. 382 Marie Mawdeleyn.c1460Towneley Myst. xxviii. 67 Mawdleyn witnes beres that ihesus rose from ded.1565Jewel Repl. Harding (1611) 257 Mary Maudlen.1573Tusser Husb. (1878) 49 Gehezie, Lots wife,..Rough Esau, with Mawdlin.
b. transf. A penitent resembling Mary Magdalen. (Cf. Magdalen 2.) Obs.
1602[? Breton] Pass. Discont. Mind A 3 b, To play a poore lamenting Mawdlines part, That would weepe streams of bloud to be forgiuen.1631R. Brathwait Eng. Gentlew. (1641) 288 They fall into a poore Maudlins distemper by giving reines to passion, till it estrange them from the soveraignty of reason.
2. = Magdalen 3. Obs.
1603Owen Pembrokeshire (1892) 11 Diuerse priories, ffriers, Maudlens [printed Mandleus], Almehouses [etc.].
3.
a. = costmary, Tanacetum Balsamita. Obs.
b. The herb Achillea Ageratum. (Also sweet maudlin.)
c1460J. Russell Bk. Nurture 132 Gynger valadyne & maydelyn ar not so holsom in mete.1548Turner Names Herbes 37 Thys is not Eupatorium Mesues, for that is called in englishe Maudlene.1578Lyte Dodoens ii. lxxvi. 250 The second kinde [of Balsamynte] is called..in English Mawdelein.1597Gerarde Herball ii. cxcviii. 524 Maudlein is without doubt a kinde of Costmarie.1612Drayton Poly-olb. xv. 197 They hot Muscado oft with milder Maudlin cast.1640Parkinson Theat. Bot. 78 Ageratum purpureum, Purple sweete Maudeline.1688R. Holme Armoury ii. 98/2 Small Maudlin hath the stalk full of small slender leaves of whitish green.1718Quincy Compl. Disp. 130 Maudlin, is a kind of Agrimony, & flowers about July.1866Treas. Bot., Sweet maudlin, Achillea Ageratum.
4. The name of a kind of peach (= Magdalen 4); also of a kind of pear (= Magdalen pear). Obs.
1664Evelyn Kal. Hort. June 68 [Pears]. The Maudlin (first ripe)..&c.1699Ibid. Aug. (ed. 9) 100 Peaches and Abricots... Bourdeaux Peach,..Maudlen, Minion Peach.1676Worlidge Cyder 167 The Margaret, the Maudlin..and many other early Pears are in esteem for the Table in July.1707Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 294 The Margaret, the Maudlin, and the Cluster Pear.
5. [From the adj.] What is maudlin; weak or mawkish sentiment.
1838Lytton Alice vi. ii, I allow that there is a strange mixture of fustian and maudlin in all these things.1865Spectator 11 Feb. 153 Let us at least have them tried like all others, with as little maudlin and romance about..withered hearts..as may be consistent with sincerity.
6. Comb.: maudlin daisy, the ox-eye daisy, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum; Maudlin day, = Magdalen day; maudlin pot, ? some kind of drinking vessel; maudlin tansy = sweet maudlin (see 3 b); maudlin tide, the time of the feast of St. Mary Magdalen, 22 July; maudlin-wort (? obs.) = maudlin daisy; also applied to the yellow ox-eye, Chrysanthemum segetum.
1861Miss Pratt Flower. Pl. III. 312 (Great White Ox-eye)..The plant was formerly called *Maudlin Daisy.
c1470Hardyng Chron. clxii. (1812) 297 The kyng vpon the *Maudeleyn day, At Fowkirke fought with Scottes in great aray.
1638Lanc. Wills (Chetham Soc.) III. 204 A dozen of silver spoones and a little *Maudlin pott of silver.
1856Mayne Expos. Lex., *Maudlin Tansy.
c1530Ld. Berners Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814) 7 Arthur..demaundyd of him yf he had receyued at yt *mawdeleyn tyde y⊇ reuenewes of the forest.
1552Elyot Dict., Amaranthus, an herbe, of the which be two sortes: the flower of the one is yelow,..called also..of Apothecaries sticas citrina, in English, *Maudelene woort or Baltasar.1578Lyte Dodoens ii. xix. 169 The great wild Daysie, or Maudelynwurte..hath grene leaues.1766Museum Rust. VI. 451 Greater Daisie, Ox⁓eye, or Maudlin-wort.1866Treas. Bot., Maudlinwort, Chrysanthemum Leucanthemum.
II. maudlin, a.|ˈmɔːdlɪn|
Forms: 6 maudlayne, mawdlen, 7 maudline, mawd(e)lin, 8–9 maudling, 7– maudlin.
[From the attrib. use of maudlin n., in allusion to the pictures in which the Magdalen was represented weeping.]
1. Weeping, tearful, lachrymose. Obs. or arch.
1607Middleton Michaelm. Term ii. i. 137 That's a penitent maudlin dicer.a1680Butler Rem. (1759) II. 136 He laments, like Heraclitus the Maudlin Philosopher, at other Men's Mirth.1715Rowe Lady J. Grey v. i, No Maudlin Gazers, To wet their Handkerchiefs.1847Lytton Lucretia (1853) 152 Blooming amidst those maudlin eyes.
2. Characterized by tearful sentimentality; mawkishly emotional; weakly sentimental.
a1631Donne Lett. (1651) 145 It was matter, which I might very well have left unwritten, having too much of the Maudlin humour in it.a1704T. Brown Praise Poverty Wks. 1730 I. 98 A thousand maudlin oaths of friendship.1779Sheridan Critic ii. ii, Is this a time for maudling tenderness?1845Disraeli Sybil (Rtldg.) 317 The mob became not only enthusiastic but maudlin.1877Farrar Days of Youth xiii. 123 Doing right only in maudlin dreams, not in manly effort.
3. (First in maudlin-drunk: see 4.) Used to designate that stage of drunkenness which is characterized by the shedding of tears and effusive displays of affection. Phrase, to drink maudlin.
1616R.C. Times' Whistle v. 1958 The second kinde we maudline drunkards call.1668R. L'Estrange Vis. Quev. (1708) 40 Am not I here, the Fifth Husband of a woman yet living in the World, that hopes to..drink Maudlin at the Fifteenth Funeral?a1700B.E. Dict. Cant. Crew, Mawdlin, weepingly Drunk, as we say the Tears of the Tankard.1714Addison Spect. No. 561 ⁋12 When they grow Maudlin, they are very apt to commemorate their former Partners with a Tear.1789E. Darwin Bot. Gard. ii. (1791) 110 ‘Drink deep, sweet youths’, seductive Vitis cries, The maudlin tear-drop glittering in her eyes.1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxiii, The maudlin state or stage of drunkenness.1860All Year Round No. 49. 533 His potations had rendered him somewhat maudlin.
4. Comb. (with another adj.) as maudlin-kind, maudlin-moral; maudlin-cupped, having drunk enough to become maudlin; maudlin-drunk, drunken [orig. a similative comb. of the n.], in the maudlin stage of intoxication.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. xxix. 220 Claudius..being *Maudline cupp'd, he grew to lament the Destiny of his marriages.
1509Barclay Shyp of Folys (1570) 33 Some *maudlayne dronke, mourning loudly and hye.1592Nashe P. Penilesse 23 b, Mawdlen drunke, when a fellow wil weepe for kindnes in the midst of his Ale and kisse you.1709Steele Tatler No. 47 ⁋5 Such a Tragedian is only maudlin drunk.1856Miss Mulock J. Halifax xix, Another ill-looking fellow, maudlin drunk.
1685G. Meriton Yorks. Ale 8 Some *Maudlin drunken were, and wept full sore.
a1668Davenant Man's the Master Wks. (1673) 367, I am *Maudlin kind, would I had one of thy Hoods to cover my face.
1842Tennyson Will Waterproof 208 It is but yonder empty glass That makes me *maudlin-moral.
Hence ˈmaudlinize v. trans., to make maudlin, to cause to be in a maudlin state of intoxication; ˈmaudlinism, the state of being maudlin-drunk.
a1652Brome Covent Garden iv. ii, I hope 'twill maudlenize him.1837Dickens Pickw. xxxviii, Mr. Benjamin Allen had perhaps a greater predisposition to maudlinism than he had ever known before.
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