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perished, ppl. a.|ˈpɛrɪʃt|
[f. perish v. + -ed1.]
That has perished, in the senses of the vb.; decayed, wasted; dead or brought to the point of death with cold or privation.
1538Elyot, Perditus.., loste, perysshed, withoute recouerie, out of hope. 1579Langham Gard. Health 587 The leaues & root boyled in water and Hony, & drunke, healeth the perished lungs. 1685Lond. Gaz. No. 1998/4 A brown bay Mare above 14 hands high,..a little perisht in her Wind. 1747H. Glasse Art of Cookery xxi. 161 If any soft or perished Place appear on the Outside [of cheese], try how deep it goes. 1757W. Thompson R. N. Advoc. 46 It is no longer a Wonder, such perished Stores should be bought up. 1823Galt Gilhaize II. xxix. 282 The mourning women, and the perished child in the arms. 1883A. Lang in Contemp. Rev. Dec. 842 The perished plays of Sophocles and æschylus might any day be brought to light. 1888‘R. Boldrewood’ Robbery under Arms xli, ‘Dining at the camp!’ says Aileen, looking regularly perished. a1922T. S. Eliot Waste Land Drafts (1971) 75 Over perished plains, stumbling in cracked earth. 1922H. P. Stevens in S. Morgan Prep. Plantation Rubber xxi. 306 After a time, vulcanised rubber tends to harden, cracks appear on the surface when the article is bent or stretched, and eventually the rubber becomes rotten and ‘perished’. 1923B. D. W. Luff Chem. of Rubber vii. 86 Spiller found that the unvulcanised rubber coating on a piece of fabric after six years had lost its original properties and had become hard and brittle, or ‘perished’, to use the term now applied to such a change. 1950J. Cannan Murder Included vii. 158 A perished washer might account for the dripping. 1964R. Petrie Murder by Precedent iii. 39 The half-perished suspenders and wrinkled stockings. 1965D. Francis Odds Against xiii. 178 Weather forecasts are as reliable as a perished hot-water bottle. 1967Leyland & Watts in J. A. Brydson Devel. with Natural Rubber v. 67 If this were so, then under the more severe running conditions.., casing compounds based conventionally on natural rubber would reach a perished condition in a relatively short time. 1978Country Life 30 Nov. 1915/3 Old nylon stockings..infinitely superior to perished rubber releasing corroded wire. |