单词 | disanoint |
释义 | disanointv. transitive. To undo the anointing or consecration of; to deconsecrate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > remove from office or authority [verb (transitive)] > depose a sovereign > disanoint disanoint1649 1649 J. Milton Tenure of Kings 2 They have..bandied and borne armes against their King, devested him, disanointed him. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Halt before Rome in Songs before Sunrise 175 His blessings, as other men's curses Disanoint where they consecrate Kings. 1881 A. E. Housman in Waifs & Strays Nov. 54 Divinities disanointedAnd kings whose kingdom is done. 1978 Stud. in Romanticism 17 343 Saturn, disanointed by fate, feels he has lost his ‘strong identity’. 2009 E. Gustafson Stones iii. 39 He'd disanoint me in a minute if Saul would just humble himself. DerivativesΘΚΠ society > authority > office > removal from office or authority > [adjective] > deposed as monarch > disanointed disanointed1674 1674 P. Walsh Hist. & Vindic. Loyal Formulary ii. 9 A deposed, deprived, un-anointed or dis-anointed, or excommunicated Prince. 1867 R. C. Trench Shipwrecks Faith 47 There is something unutterably pathetic in that yearning of the disanointed King [sc. Saul]. 1871 A. C. Swinburne Songs before Sunrise 87 And on the same reed is it set Wherewith before they buffeted The people's disanointed head. disaˈnointing adj. and n. ΚΠ 1820 J. Keats Hyperion: a Fragm. ii, in Lamia & Other Poems 172 For Fate Had pour'd a mortal oil upon his head, A disanointing poison. 1876 T. A. Hanna in Internat. Sunday School Comm. 6 7 It was Samuel who anointed Saul to be king. He, also, must be the messenger of his disanointing. 1881 W. Alexander in F. C. Cook Holy Bible with Comm. IV. (1 John) 321/1 Antichrist shall not lay his disanointing hand upon you. 2002 R. C. McCoy Alterations of State iv. 108 The sacramental pretensions of their anointing and disanointing confirm Milton's conviction that New Presbyter is but old Priest writ large. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1649 |
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