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单词 empoisoned
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empoisonedadj.

Brit. /ɪmˈpɔɪznd/, /ɛmˈpɔɪznd/, U.S. /ᵻmˈpɔɪz(ə)nd/, /ɛmˈpɔɪz(ə)nd/
Forms: see empoison v. and -ed suffix1.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: empoison v., -ed suffix1.
Etymology: < empoison v. + -ed suffix1. Compare earlier poisoned adj.
Now somewhat archaic.
1.
a. Containing or impregnated with poison; envenomed; poisonous. Also figurative. Now rare.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > poison > [adjective] > rendered poisonous
venomous?a1400
venomed?1402
intoxicatec1425
poisoneda1470
poisonc1475
empoisoned1544
intoxicated1558
impotionate1583
venenated1597
venenate1633
mephitized1794
1544 A. Cope Hist. Anniball & Scipio lxiv. f. 144 He drunke the empoysoned drinke, and sone after dyed.
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades viii. 365 Impoison'd strokes His wounding thunder shall imprint.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 144 These Arabians..shooting their empoysoned arrowes, practise pyracie.
1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World v. i. §71. 465/2 A pair of empoysoned Gloves..procured his death.
a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo xi, in Wks. (1721) III. 318 On Earth uncurs'd no Plants empoyson'd grew.
1799 G. Lipscomb Journey into Cornwall xxvi. 263 The empoisoned darts of anti-monarchists..have penetrated even into the bowels of the earth.
1801 J. Corry Satir. View London 166 Assassins, ready to lift their empoisoned stillettos against your hearts.
1883 J. Parker Tyne Chylde 145 The serpent..shows its empoisoned fang.
1911 Protestant Mag. 3 126/2 Those twin fiends [sc. superstition and intolerance]..that with their empoisoned fangs have torn a thousand times the snowy breast of Liberty.
b. Infected or tainted with poison, infection, a noxious substance, etc.; polluted; contaminated. Cf. empoison v. 3, empoison v. 4. Also figurative.
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective]
mixedc1300
pollutea1382
infectc1384
unpurea1398
fouledc1400
drossyc1420
polluteda1425
defouledc1440
dreggyc1440
feculent1471
filed1483
violate?c1500
feding1502
fly-blown1528
cankered1530
defiled1530
contagious1547
dregful1552
contaminatea1555
menstruous1560
dreggish1561
conspurcate1563
empoisoned1581
inquinated?1593
pollutionate1593
fly-bitten1598
impure1598
druggy1599
contaminated1609
transboundary1918
1581 J. Hamilton Catholik Traictise 138 Doctrine quhilk the..Caluinistis hes soukit out of the impoisonit breistis of sik damnabill heretikis.
1790 J. Graham Guardian Health, Long-life & Happiness 3 The sweet cool air..by which that Phlogiston or Mephitic empoisoned air..is discharged.
1803 Monthly Mag. June 449/1 The empoisoned atmosphere of this metropolis.
1872 ‘G. Eliot’ Middlemarch IV. vii. lxviii. 95 His empoisoned system at this moment quailed before Bulstrode's cold, resolute bearing.
1983 Crane Bag 7 95/2 An atmosphere so empoisoned, particularly in Ulster and Belfast, that there proved to be no continued place for any third party.
1999 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 9 Oct. 61 Tony Harrison..sings of..the North, the miner, the smoker, the bleak empoisoned landscapes of the Industrial Revolution.
2. Killed by poison; poisoned. Obsolete.
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the world > life > death > killing > killing by specific method > [adjective] > poisoned
poisoneda1400
intoxicate1480
empoisoned1566
ratsbaned1638
strychnined1862
1566 W. Painter tr. O. Landi Delectable Demaundes f. 51 Wherfore is it that neyther birdes nor wilde beastes doo at any time feede vpon any empoysoned bodies?
1615 G. Sandys Relation of Journey iv. 307 The death of her impoisoned husband.
1616 R. Niccols Sir Thomas Ouerburies Vision 7 The paines of my impoyson'd ghoast.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1544
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