α. 1600s–1700s ahenian.
β. 1600s 1800s ahenean.
单词 | ahenean |
释义 | † aheneanadj.α. 1600s–1700s ahenian. β. 1600s 1800s ahenean. Obsolete. Made of brass; resembling brass in colour, sound, etc. Cf. aeneous adj.In quot. 1869 alluding to brazen adj. 3, in the sense ‘shameless; impudent’. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > absence of emotion > [adjective] > callous or hard-hearted hard hearteOE steelena1000 hardOE hard-heartedc1225 stony?c1230 yhert1340 dure1412 hardedc1425 induratec1425 stonishc1450 hardenedc1480 steely1508 flinty1536 endured1540 stiff-stomached1540 heartless1556 indured1558 flint-hearted1560 iron1561 marble1565 stone-hearted?1569 stony-hearted1569 iron-hearted1570 steel-hearted1571 rocky?1578 brawned1582 flinted1582 padded1583 obdure?1590 brawny1596 flintful1596 flint-heart1596 steeled1600 cauterized1603 indurated1604 flinty-hearted1629 ahenean1630 dedolent1633 brawny-hearteda1639 hard-grained1643 callous1647 upsitten1682 seared1684 petrified1720 calloused1746 coreless1813 pebble-hearted1816 hard-shelled1848 hard-plucked1857 steel trap1921 1630 F. Quarles Divine Poems 382 Thou dry-brayn'd Portick, whose ahenian brest (Transcending passion) never was opprest With griefe. 1763 W. Perfect Bavin of Bays 132 Or in ahenian coat the chaos blends Of twenty little immaterial things. 1818 ‘T. Brown’ Brighton III. 50 The rays of patronage..caused it to stand like the sunflower tall and gaudy, with..the ahenean face fixt upon the planet to which it owed existence. 1824 Monthly Rev. Oct. 154 The ‘Freebooter’..did in some degree redeem himself in the eyes of this fair lady, for his vandalic mutilations of..ahenean statues. 1869 Punch 27 Nov. 217/2 To say that in 1869 an architect does not understand building with metal, implies presence of another metal of the Ahenean kind. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < adj.1630 |
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