单词 | defected |
释义 | defectedadj. 1. That has become defective; having acquired a defect or defects. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > imperfection > [adjective] > in specific way: defective or faulty defaultyc1390 defectivea1398 defaultive1398 imperfectc1400 faultive1496 defectuous1550 defectious?1566 defaulted1580 defectual1582 defected1589 defectible1612 vicious1638 unfixed1643 hip-shotten1648 defectuose1677 flawy1712 off-colour1876 flawful1881 faultsome1891 trick1961 rogue1962 1589 W. Warner Albions Eng. (new ed.) v. xxviii. 124 Defected honour neuermore is to be got againe. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1888) I. 62 A certane gret schip, bot throuch aldnes defected. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall ii. f. 140 There dwelt another, so affected, or rather defected [being deaf and dumb]. 1635 T. Heywood Hierarchie Blessed Angells ii. Comm. 104 I finde myselfe much defected and disabled in my knowledge and understanding. 1741 J. Stockton tr. C. de Saint-Yves New Treat. Dis. Eyes xxvii. 292 A light Inflammation attended with violent Pains in their Head on the Side of the defected Eye. 1830 Mechanicks Mag. Dec. 338/2 The furnace was cleared, the defected joint repaired. 1886 Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic 23 Oct. 509/2 The intense pain in the eye, the contracted pupil, the defected vision [etc.]. 1922 Electr. Rec. Jan. 35/1 When a coil is short-circuited its activity ceases although the usefulness of its enclosed pole-pieces and the field on both sides of the defected coil will not be distorted but will be weakened. 1997 Jrnl. Agric., Biol., & Environmental Statistics 2 112 When an internal defect was found, the section where the decay occurred was cut into smaller pieces so that the ‘defected’ volume could be measured accurately. 2. Of a person: that has defected from a party, organization, cause, or country; that is a defector.Now the usual sense. ΚΠ ?1660 Copy Let. Serious Refl. Fallacies of Army 4 You pay the Defected party all their Arrears,..a just punishment upon them, who have interrupted you. 1807 Life C. J. Fox 205 Mr. Pitt now proceeded with a party doubly powerful, in as much as the defected oppositionists carried with them a certain confidence of the people. 1879 Mountain Democrat (Placerville, Calif.) 25 Oct. There will be little danger that..the defected nineteen thousand will return to its [sc. the Republican party's] ranks. 1959 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 53 509 The Terror Machine (New York, 1953) is by a defected Soviet Zone Military Government officer. 1978 R. Evelegh Peace Keeping in Democratic Society vii. 140 In Malaya a defected woman Communist terrorist was photographed between two smiling policemen to ensure her continued loyalty. 2010 M. Denov Child Soldiers ii. 72 The prisoners and defected soldiers spilled into the city's main streets. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1589 |
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