| 释义 |
deathful, a.|ˈdɛθfʊl|
[See -ful.]
1. Full of death; fraught with death; mortal, fatal, destructive, deadly.
a1240Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 207 Bi his deaðfule grure and bi his blodie swote. 1580Sidney Arcadia (1622) 104 Manie deathfull torments. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. ix. 362 As Homer saies of the champions in their deathfull combat. 1621G. Sandys Ovid's Met. ii. (1626) 23 The deathfull Scorpion's far-out-bending clawes. 1742Collins Ode to Mercy 7 Amidst the deathful field. 1850Blackie æschylus I. 154 The man, that dealt the deathful blow. 1878Bayne Purit. Rev. viii. 340 Man under sinful and deathful conditions.
2. Subject to death, mortal. arch. rare.
1616Chapman Homer's Hymn to Venus (N.), That with a deathless goddess lay A deathful man. 1887Morris Odyss. iii. 3 Unto deathful men on the corn-kind earth that dwell.
3. Having the appearance of death, deathly.
1656[see deathfulness]. 1803J. Porter Thaddeus viii. (1831) 74 The deathful hue of his countenance. 1850Mrs. Browning Vis. Poets xcii, Deathful their faces were. 1881W. Wilkins Songs of Study 97 Her..white body spotted o'er With deathful green.
Hence ˈdeathfully adv., ˈdeathfulness.
1809Campbell Gertr. Wyom. i. xvi, Deathfully their thunders seem'd to sweep. 1810Scott Lady of L. iv. xxv, She was bleeding deathfully. 1656Artif. Handsom. 70 To adorn our lookes, so as may be most remote from a deathfulnesse. a1853Robertson Lect. i. (1858) 116 There is nothing to break the deep deathfulness of the scene. |