单词 | agore-blood |
释义 | agore-bloodadv.adj. Now archaic and rare. Chiefly with all. In or with clotted blood or gore; in a bloody state. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > discharge or flux > [adverb] > bleeding > in shed blood on (a) gure blodea1225 agore-blood1579 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 209 The flouds and riuers ronning all a gore bloude (by reason of the great slaughter). 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xii. 462 The Consull sitting all agore bloud upon a stone. B. adj. In predicative use: covered with clotted blood or gore; bloody. ΚΠ 1609 P. Holland tr. Ammianus Marcellinus Rom. Hist. xiv. vii. 14 To see..champions wounding and killing one another, and to behold them all agore bloud [perfusorumque sanguine]. 1632 P. Holland tr. Xenophon Cyrupædia viii. iv. 191 Pheraulas: whose beard was all agore blood, and fouly berayed with earth. 1778 Tailors i. ii. 6 All a gore blood! and from that hour to this, Remembrance chills me with the very thought! 1995 N. Gaiman White Road in E. Datlow & T. Winding Ruby Slippers, Golden Tears 369 You smiled, held up you sword, your hands agore-blood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adv.adj.1579 |
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