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▪ I. blindfold, v.|ˈblaɪndfəʊld|
Forms: 3 blindfellen, 4 blyndfelle(n, blynfelle, 5 blyndfellyn, -feyld, blynfelde, 6 blyndfell, -felde, blindfield, blyndfold, 6– blindfold. pa. pple. 3 iblindfelled, 4 blindfelled, -feld, blynd-folde, blynfeld, yblyndfalled, 5 blynd(e)fellyd, -fylde, 5–6 blynd(e)felde, 6 blind-filded, -fielded, 6– blindfolded.
[ME. blindfelle(n to strike blind, f. fellen to strike, fell; occurring mostly in the pa. pple. blindfelled, -feld, -fuld, -fylde, whence the -d was, in the 15th c., erroneously admitted into the stem of the vb. Hence the 16th c. perversion blindfold, associated with the notion of folding something round the eyes, which had come to be the common use of the word.]
†1. trans. To strike blind; to blind. Obs.
a1300Cursor M. 19615 Blinfeld [v.r. blenfelled, blindfeld, blyndfolde] he was als he sua lai. c1320R. Brunne Chron. 54 He suore..þat neuer Alfred his broþer þorgh him was dede No blynfeld, no slayn. c1440Promp. Parv. 40 Blyndyn, or make blynde. Blyndfellen, idem est.
2. To cover the eyes, esp. with a bandage.
a1225Ancr. R. 106 He þolede..þet me hine blindfellede..Þauh þu þin eien..blindfellie on eorðe. 1388Wyclif Luke xxii. 64 And thei blynfelden hym, and smyten his face. 1483Cath. Angl. 35 To Blyndfeyld [blyndfelle], velare. 1494Fabyan vi. ccx. 225 She was blyndefelde & lad vnto the place. c1510Barclay Mirr. Good Mann. (1570) C iv, Here eyne blindfielded. 1526Tindale Luke xxii. 64 And blyndfolded hym. 1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 259 Y⊇ cloth with y⊇ whiche our Sauyour was blyndfelde. 1530Palsgr. 458, I blyndefelde one, I cover his sight. 1599Life Sir T. More in Wordsw. Eccl. Biog. (1853) II. 17 He tooke a napkin..wherewith he blindfolded his own eies. 1727Swift Wonder of Wond. Wks. 1755 II. ii. 58 He..gives any person leave to blindfold him. 1835Anster Faust 314 They bind and blindfold me.
3. fig. To darken the understanding or judgement.
1581Marbeck Bk. Notes 1037 They are blindfolded, they are snared. 1674Allen Dang. Enthus. 60 If Prejudice do not blindfold you. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 344 They..blindfold themselves, like bulls that shut their eyes when they push. 1879H. George Progr. & Pov. ii. iv. (1881) 125 Men ignore facts when blindfolded by a pre-accepted theory.
▪ II. ˈblindfold, a.
Forms: see prec. (in pa. pple.): also 5–6 blynfeld(e, blyndfeld(e, (blindfield(e, blyndefielde), blyndefolde, 6 blyndfild, 7 blindefold, 6– blindfold.
1. a. Having the eyes bandaged so as to prevent vision. (Rarely attrib.; often advb.)
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 88/1 He fonde them on theyr knees and blyndfeld. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 115 b, Shall some gentilman playe blyndefolde at the chesse. 1555Eden Decades W. Ind. (Arb.) 347 They can in maner go thyther blyndfielde. 1768Tucker Lt. Nat. II. 606 He that follows another blindfold. 1792S. Rogers Pleas. Mem. i. 36 And turned the blindfold hero round and round.
b. transf.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, i. iii. 224 My inch of Taper will be burnt and done, And blindfold death not let me see my sonne.
c. Of a match at chess: conducted by a player without seeing the board but not necessarily blindfolded; hence blindfold player.
1790‘Mr. Philidor’ (title) Analysis of the Game of Chess..to which is added several Parties, Played Blindfold, against three adversaries. 1850Browning Christmas Eve 90 Playing pawns at blindfold chess. 1900Westm. Gaz. 31 May 2/1 In almost all these blindfold games I have the move... Occasionally I overlook something..in a blindfold match... The blindfold player..cannot see so far ahead as if he were looking at the board.
2. fig. With the mind blinded; without perception; without forethought, heedless, reckless. Cf. blind a. 3.
c1450De Deguileville's Pilgr. in Cath. Angl. 35 Of þaim that er blynfelde and er as blynde. 1570B. Googe Pop. Kingd. i. 3, But blyndefielde every man must take, whatsoeuer he settes out. 1592Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 554 With blindfold fury she begins to forage. 1687Dryden Hind & P. i. 324 The blind-fold blows of ignorance. 1878Morley Crit. Misc. Ser. i. 158 Sailing blindfold and haphazard.
†3. Dark. Cf. blind a. 6. Obs.
1601R. Yarington Two Traj. Prol. 7 in Bullen O. Pl. IV, Each stately streete, And blinde-fold turning.
▪ III. ˈblindfold, n.
[f. the adj.: in sense 2 leaning upon fold n.]
†1. That which is blindfold. Obs.
1643Myst. Iniq. 14 Where blindfold is the onely play.
2. A bandage over the eyes; fig. anything which takes away perception or judgement.
1880L. Wallace Ben-Hur ii. v. 106 To the excellences of other peoples the egotism of a Roman is a blindfold. |