单词 | dispirit |
释义 | dispiritv. To deprive of spirit. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > cause to be ill [verb (transitive)] > make weak fellOE wastec1230 faintc1386 endull1395 resolvea1398 afaintc1400 defeat?c1400 dissolvec1400 weakc1400 craze1476 feeblish1477 debilite1483 overfeeble1495 plucka1529 to bring low1530 debilitate1541 acraze1549 decaya1554 infirma1555 weaken1569 effeeble1571 enervate1572 enfeeble1576 slay1578 to pull downa1586 prosternate1593 shake1594 to lay along1598 unsinew1598 languefy1607 enerve1613 pulla1616 dispirit1647 imbecilitate1647 unstring1700 to run down1733 sap1755 reduce1767 prostrate1780 shatter1785 undermine1812 imbecile1829 disinvigorate1844 devitalize1849 wreck1850 atrophy1865 crumple1892 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] > cause to lose vitality or vigour languisha1464 castrate1554 damp1564 dead1586 flag1602 wooden1641 dispirit1647 deaden1684 disvigorate1694 devitalize1849 narcotize1852 wilt1855 woodenize1877 abirritate1882 1647 T. May Hist. Parl. i. vii. 73 They woulde vaporate and dis-spirit the power and vigour of Religion. 1660 R. Sharrock Hist. Propagation & Improvem. Veg. 139 The fruit, by the loss of the natural seed, would be very much dispirited. 1685 R. Boyle Exper. Disc. Salubr. Air 40 in Ess. Effects Motion If the Bottles were not kept well-stopt, they [corpuscles] would in a short time vanish, and leave the Liquor dispirited. 1695 J. Collier Misc. upon Moral Subj. 37 He that has dispirited himself by a Debauch. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 9 Trail all your pikes, dispirit every drum, Ye silent, ye dejected Men of War. 2. To lower the spirits of; to make despondent, discourage, dishearten, depress. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > make dejected [verb (transitive)] drearya1300 discomfortc1325 batec1380 to cast downa1382 to throw downa1382 dullc1386 faintc1386 discomfita1425 discourage1436 sinkc1440 mischeera1450 discheerc1454 amatea1500 bedowa1522 damp1548 quail1548 dash1550 exanimate1552 afflict1561 dank1565 disanimate1565 sadden1565 languish1566 deject1581 dumpc1585 unheart1593 mope1596 chill1597 sour1600 disgallant1601 disheart1603 dishearten1606 fainten1620 depress1624 sullen1628 tristitiate1628 disliven1631 dampen1633 weigh1640 out-spirit1643 dispirit1647 flat1649 funeralize1654 hearta1658 disencourage1659 attrist1680 flatten1683 dismalizec1735 blue-devil1812 out-heart1845 downweigh1851 to get down1861 frigidize1868 languor1891 downcast1914 neg1987 1647 [implied in: J. Trapp Comm. Epist. & Rev. (1 Thess. v. 14) The dispirited, faint~hearted, sick and sinking. (at dispirited adj. 2)]. 1732 Gay in Swift's Lett. (1766) II. 151 I find myself dispirited, for want of having some pursuit. 1759 W. Robertson Hist. Scotl. I. v. 382 A blow so fatal and unexpected dispirited the party. 1817 Combe's Devil upon Two Sticks (ed. 5) VI. xxvi. 292 To dispirit the sufferer from future exertions. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. viii. 260 One side was cheered and the other dispirited by an unlooked-for incident. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > intrinsicality or inherence > essence or intrinsic nature > inform or give a thing its essence [verb (transitive)] > deprive of essence or quintessence quintessence1584 quintessentiate1606 dispirit1642 unsoul1652 eviscerate1664 spirit1677 1642 T. Fuller Holy State iii. xviii. 200 Proportion an houres meditation to an houres reading of a staple Authour. This makes a man master of his learning, and dispirits the book into the Scholar. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.1642 |
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