单词 | disprovide |
释义 | disprovidev. archaic. transitive. To fail to provide for; to leave unprovided. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > make poor or impoverish [verb (transitive)] > leave destitute forletOE disprovide?1520 ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xxix. f. 40v He shuld nat hurt nor disprouyde them whyle he had vytell ynough of his owne prouysion. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 50 The Papacie is not disprovided of his instruments to worke upon these also. a1691 R. Boyle Wks. (1772) VI. 40 (R.) An impatient lutanist, who has his song book and his instrument ready, but is altogether disprovided of strings. Derivatives disproˈvided adj. unprovided, unsupplied, unfurnished (French dépourvu). ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > not provided or equipped with something unbounda1300 unpurveyed?1397 unprovided1513 unprovided1530 unbestoweda1535 improvided1569 dispurveyed1574 unsupplied1599 unaccommodated1608 unprepared1608 disprovided1864 1864 T. Carlyle Hist. Friedrich II of Prussia IV. xvii. iii. 531 Much disprovided, destitute. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < v.?1520 |
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