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starched, ppl. a.|stɑːtʃt|
[f. starch v. + -ed1.]
1. Stiffened with or as with starch.
a. of linen, etc. Also with out. Hence, of a person.
1617B. Rich Irish Hubbub 9 Wee haue conuerted the coller of steele to a yellow-starched-band. 1707J. Stevens tr. Quevedo's Com. Wks. (1709) 223 My curious starch'd Band. 1818Scott Rob Roy i, The ex-minister, as bolt upright as a starched ruff and laced cassock could make him. 1862Mrs. H. Wood Channings xxxvi, Martha wore a crinoline.., and a starched-out muslin gown over it. 1891Hardy Tess xxv, A broad-brimmed hat and highly-starched cambric morning-gown.
†b. of the beard or hair. Obs.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. iv. iv, Who? this i' the starcht beard? 1633P. Fletcher Purple Isl. vii. 71 Some with black terrours his faint conscience baited, That wide he star'd, and starched hair did stand.
2. fig. Stiff, formal, precise.
a. of a person, his countenance, behaviour, etc.
1599B. Jonson Ev. Man out of Hum. i. ii, And when you come to Playes, be humorous, looke with a good starcht face and ruffle your brow like a new boot. 1607Puritan i. iv. 54 Good Cocks-combe! what makes that pure, starch'd foole here? 1626Shirley Brothers v. i, One boisterous fellow, With a starched voice and a worse vizard..quoited me Into the coach again. 1661Wood Life 3 May (O.H.S.) I. 395 John Haselwood, a proud, starch'd, formal and sycophantizing clisterpipe. 1662E. Hopkins Serm. Funeral A. Grevil (1663) 35 This taught him to outstrip in true wisdome, temperance and fortitude..whatsoever those starch't and formall moralists did. 1708Swift Abol. Chr. Misc. (1711) 172 Does the Gospel any where prescribe a starched squeezed Countenance, a Stiff formal Gate. 1749Smollett Gil Blas viii. ix. (1782) III. 192 A parcel of insolent fellows, with their self-sufficient starched airs! 1771― Humph. Cl. 2 Apr., A maiden of forty-five, exceedingly starched, vain, and ridiculous. 1822W. Irving Braceb. Hall xxvi. 235 Mrs. Hannah moved about with starched dignity among the rustics. 1837Dickens Pickw. xxvii, His looks were starched, but his white neckerchief was not. 1862Sala Accepted Addr. 5, I was seriously afraid that I should be married to some starched old maid.
b. of an oration, ceremony.
1659Wood Life Dec. (O.H.S.) I. 300 And ‘scandalus’ it was to have a formall starcht prayer before it. 1672Gale Crt. Gentiles i. iii. x. (ed. 2) 108 Aristotle tels us, that it [an oration] must be natural, not feigned, artificial or starched. 1693Humours Town 31 Syllogising, that damn'd starch'd method of the Schools. a1734North Exam. ii. v. §133 (1740) 398 And they wrote it as he spoke it, which useth not to be in any starched Method. 1792M. Wollstonecraft Rights Wom. v. 217 A cultivated understanding and an affectionate heart will never want starched rules of decorum. 1883R. Ritchie Bk. Sibyls i. 28 A contrast to prim, starched scholastic life. 1884Christian World 19 June 463/4 The stiff starched ‘order of service’, the rented pews, with the odious distinction of free seats.
Hence ˈstarchedly adv., ˈstarchedness.
1671L. Addison West Barbary 105 Don Diego de Palma..chanceing to smile at the Moors Deportment, as not answering the starch'dness of his own Nation. 1702C. Mather Magn. Chr. vii. ii. (1852) 496 The fierceness of his talking in publick, and the starchtness of his living in private. 1705J. Dunton Life 145 'Twas the Vitals of Religion that she minded, and not Forms and Modes; and..she did not think her self oblig'd to such a Starch'dness of Carriage as is usual amongst the Bostonians. 1873Browning Red Cotton Night-Cap Country 379 See, the church With its white steeple,..Starchedly warrants all beneath is matched By all above, one snowy innocence! |