单词 | cornuted |
释义 | cornutedadj. 1. a. Having horns, or horn-like projections; horned. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > animal body > general parts > head and neck > [adjective] > having horns horneda1400 attired1572 forked1605 cornuted1609 cornigerous1646 corniferous1650 1609 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. (ed. 2) Cornuted, hauing hornes. 1613 R. Zouche Dove 40 The silver Crescent, in the sable skye Seemes to resemble Loyres cornuted streames. 1761 C. Johnstone Chrysal (ed. 2) I. i. xvi. 97 One of them declared, that..all cornuted animals cast their horns every year, like the stag. 1816 G. S. Faber Origin Pagan Idolatry III. 351 The bovine and cornuted figure of Bacchus. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus i. vii. 17/2 Bushel-breeches, cornuted shoes. 1870 G. Rolleston Forms Animal Life Introd. 111 The males, except in the cornuted species, being slighter in make. b. Having the form of a horn, horn-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > condition of tapering to a point > [adjective] > like a horn cornute1706 cornuted1866 1866 E. C. Rye in Intellectual Observer No. 56. 132 Cornuted processes on head or thorax. 2. ‘Horned’, cuckolded. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > licentiousness > unchastity > fornication, adultery, or incest > [adjective] > adulterous > dishonoured by wife's adultery forked1586 cornuted1612 horn-mada1616 bugle-broweda1632 horneda1632 horn-beaten1652 hornified1693 grafted1699 1612 W. Fennor Cornu-copiæ 113 Loe here (cornuted Seigniors) here you see It is no wonder for to weare a horne. 1717 C. Bullock Woman is Riddle i. i A cornuted coxcomb. 1830 Fraser's Mag. 2 92 Cornuted husbands. ΚΠ 1683 O. U. Parish-churches No Conventicles 10 Else he would not arietare against our Bishops..with his cornuted arguments. ΚΠ 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 761 The Cornuted Rey was the cause of the gangrens. 1676 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 11 760 This cornuted grain. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < adj.1609 |
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