单词 | empoisoned |
释义 | empoisonedadj. Now somewhat archaic. 1. a. Containing or impregnated with poison; envenomed; poisonous. Also figurative. Now rare. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < adj.1544 |
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