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oppressed, ppl. a.
(əˈprɛst, poet. əˈprɛsɪd)
Also 6–8 opprest.
[f. oppress v. + -ed1.]
1. Pressed down or weighed down physically or mentally; burdened, troubled, depressed; reduced to straits or difficulties; esp. harassed or crushed down by tyranny or unjust treatment; downtrodden.
1382Wyclif Isa. i. 17 Helpeth to the opressid. c15111st Eng. Bk. Amer. (Arb.) Introd. 31/2 Ye opprest pope of ye schole of Rome. 1605Shakes. Lear v. iii. 5 For thee oppressed King I am caste downe. a1687Sir W. Petty Pol. Arith. (1690) 21 The Hollanders were one hundred years since a poor and oppressed People. 1767Gooch Treat. Wounds I. 280 He was seized with a lethargy, and other usual symptoms of an oppressed brain, and expired soon after. 1871Freeman Norm. Conq. IV. xxi. 618 There is not a word to hint that that oppressed nation was what it is now the fashion to call an oppressed nationality.
2. Her. = debruised.
1572J. Bossewell Armorie ii. 132 b, The fielde is de Azure, two winges iointly en Lewre de Argent, oppressed wt a barre Gules. 1868Cussans Her. vi. (ed. 3) 86 When an Ordinary surmounts, or is placed over, a Lion, or other animal, it is said to be Debruised, or Oppressed, by that Ordinary. |