单词 | gelded |
释义 | geldedadj. 1. a. Of a person or animal: castrated or spayed.In quot. c1225 apparently showing use as n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > animal keeping practices general > [adjective] > castrated or spayed geldedc1225 spayeda1425 geltc1440 unpizzled1554 splayed?1611 libbed1616 spaded1648 the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > [adjective] > castrated geldedc1225 cutted1438 geltc1440 chaste1526 evirate1606 castrated1609 memberless1611 unpaveda1616 libbed1616 cut1624 eunuched1627 caponed1630 untesticled1668 castrate1704 eunuch1817 emasculated1830 eunuchal1878 neuter1893 eunuchoid1894 c1225 Worcester Glosses to Old Eng. Homilies in Anglia (1928) 52 23 Eunuchi : igeldede. c1350 Nominale (Cambr. Ee.4.20) in Trans. Philol. Soc. (1906) 22* Chiual praie..Geldud hors. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 9v (MED) Berbitus, a gellud ram. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 758/24 Hec nefrenda, a geldyd sow. 1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) f. 28 No gelded person..shuld be made a priest. 1617 J. Minsheu Ἡγεμὼν είς τὰς γλῶσσας: Ductor in Linguas 872 A boare hogge made a barren hogge..a libd or gelded hogge, porcus castratus. 1652 C. B. Stapylton tr. Herodian Imperiall Hist. 17 Gelded priests. ?1706 E. Hickeringill Priest-craft: 2nd Pt. ii. 24 All the Qualification that St. Philip required of the guelded Blackamore. 1875 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 6 Feb. 186/2 If it [sc. the Society] look with complacency on gelded horses..it is hard to understand the plea that the art and science which aims at saving human life, shall alone be prohibited from authority over the life of lower animals. 1939 I. M. Mellen Pract. Cat Bk. iv. 99 Gelded cats are known also as altered cats, neutered cats, castrated cats, and neuters. 2016 Sunday Times (Nexis) 31 July Two species of mammal will be taking part, and at least three genders, if you count the gelded horses. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > animals for food > [adjective] > relating to meat > other qualities of meat green1577 slink1607 gelded1621 tenellous1651 jerk1743 staggy1933 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. ii. ii. i. 87 All gelded meats in every species are held best. 2. figurative and in extended use: weakened or disempowered. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of power > [adjective] > deprived of power gelded1531 depotentiated1886 declawed1945 the world > life > the body > bodily constitution > bodily weakness > weakening > [adjective] > weakened gelded1531 weakened1548 appalled1574 affeebled1577 unnerved1603 retuse1654 enfeebleda1657 unstrengthened1806–20 rocky1883 1531 W. Tyndale Answere Mores Dialoge f. ciij The gelded lust in their flesh. 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. v. sig. E4 His halfe-dozen gelded vicaries. a1627 T. Middleton et al. Widdow (1652) i. i. 4 The Warrant comes gelded, and insufficient. a1640 J. Fletcher & P. Massinger Double Marriage iv, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Eeeee4/1 This base fellow, This gelded foole! 1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman (1990) 52 Who but a libbed accountant, a gelded intellectual would decry sentiment? 2002 Nation (N.Y.) 4 Feb. 4/2 Gelded regulators, purchased politicians—every supposed check on executive plunder and piracy has been shredded. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation of grain > [adjective] > having husk removed hulleda1382 mundifiedc1425 unhusked1597 gelded1611 unhulled1656 polished1840 1611 J. Florio Queen Anna's New World of Words Castrato,..a kind of well-husked, cleansed or gelded wheat. Compounds gelded man n. a castrated man; a eunuch; now rare. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 173 Iulianus put out of his court eunochos, gilded men, barboures, and cokes. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 61v Spado, a gulded mon. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Acts viii. 34 The gelded man [Gk. εὐνοῦχος] answered Philip. 1619 E. M. Bolton tr. Florus Rom. Hist. iv. ii. 414 By the counsell of gelded-men [L. spadonum]. 1995 San Jose (Calif.) Mercury News (Nexis) 24 Nov. 52 Emasculating boys and men to preserve the purity of their voices was outlawed by church and state, though both had vested interests in maintaining a steady supply of gelded men. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [noun] > orchids satyrionOE bollockwort?a1300 sanicle14.. bollock?a1425 martagon1548 orchis1559 dogstones1562 hare's-ballocks1562 stone1562 bollock grass1578 dog's cods1578 dog's cullions1578 double-leaf1578 fly-orchis1578 goat's cullions1578 goat's orchis1578 priest's pintle1578 twayblade1578 bee-orchis1597 bifoil1597 bird's nest1597 bird's orchis1597 butterfly orchis1597 fenny-stones1597 gelded satyrion1597 gnat satyrion1597 humble-bee orchis1597 lady's slipper1597 sweet ballocks1597 two-blade1605 cullions1611 bee-flower1626 fly-flower1640 man orchis1670 musk orchis1670 moccasin flower1680 gnat-flower1688 faham tea1728 Ophrys1754 green man orchis1762 Arethusa1764 honey flower1771 cypripedium1775 rattlesnake plantain1778 Venus's slipper1785 Adam and Eve1789 lizard orchis179. epidendrum1791 Pogonia?1801 Vanda1801 cymbidium1815 Oncidium1822 putty-root1822 Noah's Ark1826 yellow moccasin1826 gongora1827 cattleya1828 green man1828 nervine1828 stanhopea1829 dove-flower1831 catasetum1836 Odontoglossum1836 Miltonia1837 letter plant1838 spread eagle1838 letter-leaf1839 swan-plant1841 orchid1843 disa1844 masdevallia1845 Phalaenopsis1846 faham1850 Indian crocus1850 moccasin plant1850 pleione1851 dove orchis1852 nerve root1854 Holy Ghost flower1862 basket-plant1865 lizard's tongue1866 mousetail1866 Sobralia1866 swan-neck1866 swanwort1866 Indian shoe1876 odontoglot1879 wreathewort1879 moth orchid1880 rattlesnake orchid1881 dendrobe1882 dove-plant1882 Madeira orchis1882 man orchis1882 swan-flower1884 slipper-orchid1885 slipper orchis1889 mayflower1894 scorpion orchid1897 moederkappie1910 dove orchid1918 monkey orchid1925 man orchid1927 1597 J. Gerard Herball i. 173 Gelded Satyrion... The stalke is gelded as it were, or the stones and handes cut off, leauing for the roote two long legs or fingers. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum Table 1738/2 Gelded Satyrion, or handed Orchis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1225 |
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