† angustadj.

Forms: 1500s anguste, 1500s–1700s angust.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anguste; Latin angustus.

Etymology: < (i) Middle French anguste (French †anguste ) narrow, constricted (a1480), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin angustus narrow, confined, tight, scarce, restricted, humble, poor, straitened, restricted, limited, short, brief, mean, petty, (of circumstances) pressing, ultimately < angere to choke, strangle, to confine, restrict (see angor n.); probably < angor angor n. (originally an s-stem) + -tus, suffix forming adjectives.Compare Catalan angost, Spanish angosto (12th cent.), Portuguese angusto (14th cent.), Italian angusto (a1321).

Obsolete.

Narrow, constricted, confined.In quot. 1621: compressed.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious

narroweOE

straitc1290

unwidea1400

scanta1533

angust1540

roomless1548

pinched?1567

niggard1595

strict1598

straitened1602

pinching1607

incommodious1615

incapacious1635

over-strait1645

straiteninga1652

cramp1786

bottleneck1854

cramped1884

tight1937

claustrophobic1946

claustrophobe1954

1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xiiii When..that the passage be ouer angust streate or narowe [L. angustior].

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 61/1 An angust neckede glasse.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iii. 324 If..the ayre be so angust, what proportion is there betwixt the other three elements and it?

1656 H. L'Estrange Observator Observed 37 Soules of the most noble size must have elbow-room, they cannot exercise their activity in an angust and narrow Sphere.

1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion i. xxxv. 105 The Pores of the Cutis being angust, the Humour cannot exude and so lyeth fermenting under the Skin.

1720 tr. H. Boerhaave De Viribus Medicamentorum vi. 32 It is at first by a transectorious Motion of the Blood, conveigh'd as far as the angust or narrow Parts.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	angust
释义	† angustadj. Forms: 1500s anguste, 1500s–1700s angust. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French anguste; Latin angustus. Etymology: < (i) Middle French anguste (French †anguste ) narrow, constricted (a1480), and its etymon (ii) classical Latin angustus narrow, confined, tight, scarce, restricted, humble, poor, straitened, restricted, limited, short, brief, mean, petty, (of circumstances) pressing, ultimately < angere to choke, strangle, to confine, restrict (see angor n.); probably < angor angor n. (originally an s-stem) + -tus, suffix forming adjectives.Compare Catalan angost, Spanish angosto (12th cent.), Portuguese angusto (14th cent.), Italian angusto (a1321). Obsolete. Narrow, constricted, confined.In quot. 1621: compressed. ΘΚΠ the world > space > [adjective] > confined, restricted, or insufficiently spacious narroweOE straitc1290 unwidea1400 scanta1533 angust1540 roomless1548 pinched?1567 niggard1595 strict1598 straitened1602 pinching1607 incommodious1615 incapacious1635 over-strait1645 straiteninga1652 cramp1786 bottleneck1854 cramped1884 tight1937 claustrophobic1946 claustrophobe1954 1540 R. Jonas tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. f. xiiii When..that the passage be ouer angust streate or narowe [L. angustior]. 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 61/1 An angust neckede glasse. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. ii. iii. 324 If..the ayre be so angust, what proportion is there betwixt the other three elements and it? 1656 H. L'Estrange Observator Observed 37 Soules of the most noble size must have elbow-room, they cannot exercise their activity in an angust and narrow Sphere. 1703 J. Moyle Experienced Chirurgion i. xxxv. 105 The Pores of the Cutis being angust, the Humour cannot exude and so lyeth fermenting under the Skin. 1720 tr. H. Boerhaave De Viribus Medicamentorum vi. 32 It is at first by a transectorious Motion of the Blood, conveigh'd as far as the angust or narrow Parts. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1540
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