单词 | conscienced |
释义 | consciencedadj. Having a conscience, esp. of a specified kind.Recorded earliest in well-conscienced (well-conscienced adj.). See also clean-conscienced at clean- adj. and adv. b, nice-conscienced adj. at nice adj. and adv. Compounds 2, spice-conscienced adj. at spice n. Compounds 2, tender-conscienced adj., weak-conscienced adj. at weak adj. and n. Compounds 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > [adjective] > of or relating to conscience > having a specific conscience consciencedc1447 well-consciencedc1447 conscioned1541 conscionable1623 c1447 W. Millington Let. in Official Corr. T. Bekynton (1872) II. 168 Such wele consyenced persones. 1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) vii. sig. Diiij The wisest men that wer and the best conciencied culd not discerne with whom it wos best to say and hold. 1590 R. Wilson Three Lordes & Three Ladies London sig. H Terrour alwaies with a fearfull watch, Doth wait vpon il conscienced Tyranny. 1696 B. J. Summary Acct. Proc. upon Discov. Jacobite Conspiracy 4 I shall not in this Juncture incur their displeasure by naming a squeamish Conscienced Gentleman, who (after 7 years Apprenticestip) will not go the Length to avow K. William's Right to the Crown. 1844 Times 12 Nov. 5/5 A clean-conscienced man, no doubt; but he may change his mind yet. 1863 C. C. Clarke Shakespeare-characters x. 257 He is light-moraled, loose-conscienced. 1912 ‘B. M. Bower’ Flying U Ranch (1914) vii. 114 Andy stood before it as a guilty-conscienced child stands before its teacher. 1952 Billboard 5 Apr. 66/1 James Lipton has a helluva time for himself with the over-conscienced son. 1992 E. Pearce Election Rides iii. 25 Raynsford is high-grade modern Labour—conscienced and realistic. 2003 E. A. Campbell Fortune's Wheel Introd. p. xvii With the ascendancy of the iconoclastic and strictly conscienced Puritans in the next century, however, Fortune's reputation suffered. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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