单词 | goading |
释义 | goadingn. 1. The action of goad v. 1; the causing of annoyance, anxiety, offence, or pain to a person; the driving of a person to or into a particular action or state of mind by persistent incitement, irritation, or torment; an act or instance of this. Also sometimes in extended use with reference to things.In quot. 1615: irritation caused by an ulcer. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > mental anguish or torment > cause of mental anguish or torment > [noun] roodOE thornc1230 prickc1384 rack?a1425 travailerc1450 goading1548 twinge1548 goad1553 tormentor1553 cut1568 stingera1577 butcher1579 torture1612 bosom-devil1651 wound1844 knife-edge1876 nemesis1933 1548 N. Udall et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. I. Luke iv. f. li Euen in this temptacion also afore godyng, there wanted not the grynne and snare of mouyng Iesus to presumpteouse vsurpyng and takyng vpon hym. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 166 When the gut is afflicted by the proritation or goading of the vlcer it transmitteth vpward such things as would offend it. 1749 H. Brooke Fifth Let. Farmer to Electors Dublin 9 Who can patiently endure under perpetual Goadings, the Keenness of Hunger and the Ravenings of Want? 1751 H. Brooke Last Speech John Good 14 [The Giants of Ambition and Appetite] grew enraged at the Reproofs and Goadings of Goodness. 1815 W. H. Ireland Scribbleomania 259 Morality's rules planted deep in the breast, Where goading of turpitude ne'er was impress'd. 1867 F. Parkman Jesuits in N. Amer. xxxi. 413 Still the goadings of famine were relentless and irresistible. 1926 I. M. Pagan From Pioneer to Poet (ed. 2) iii. 232 Drudgery so monotonous that it requires either dogged resolution or constant goading to carry it through. 1979 M. Matshoba My Friend, the Outcast in Call me not Man (1987) 3 ‘Are you the mnumzane, you? Ha, ha, haw,’ the fat one..said. They had not even removed their caps. ‘No... There's the old lady. She's in bed,’ Vusi answered, ignoring the goading. 2015 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 8 Jan. 43/1 The goadings of the flesh..drive Boccaccio's characters to violate all the rules. 2. The action of goad v. 2; the pricking or spurring on of an animal, typically using the end of a goad or other pointed implement. ΚΠ 1657 J. Davies tr. V. de Voiture Lett. i. cxxv. 201 You may easily judge that a sort of people, who had the hair drawn off their Arms and thighs with certain Pincers, who cured and perfumed themselves, were far enough from goading of Oxen. 1791 C. Hamilton tr. Hedàya IV. l. iii. 383 The goading of an animal being equivalent to driving it. 1842 K. Thomson Widows & Widowers I. iii. 59 Habit mercifully teaches beasts to bear the goading of the whip. 1969 A. E. Vecchio tr. G. Savonarola in J. C. Olin Catholic Reformation i. 7 Even the goading of the oxen had to cease. 1995 V. Chandra Red Earth & Pouring Rain (1996) 126 The goading of bullocks and the cruel tugging at creases in elephant-skin with hook-like ankus. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). goadingadj. That causes annoyance, anxiety, offence, or pain, esp. so as to provoke an action or reaction; that spurs on or drives a person or (occasionally) animal to or into a particular action or state of mind by persistent incitement, irritation, or torment. ΚΠ 1569 C. Tye tr. G. Boccaccio Nastagio & Trauersari sig. A.viv The goding prickes, had rent her pappes, The brembles, tare her skinne. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 356 It [sc. the Pleura] is often inflamed with great tension and a pricking or goading paine. 1655 W. Gay XI choice Serm. 199 It was gratia stimulans, a goading or spurring grace, to set us on to good. 1719 N. Rowe tr. Lucan Pharsalia iv. 166 By Swords, and goading Darts compell'd, Dronish he drags his Load across the Field. 1798 T. Jefferson Let. 7 Jan. in Papers (2003) XXX. 15 A desire always to..make him feel himself in the wrong, & especially in company. Nothing is so goading. 1821 Christian Messenger 9 June 180/3 You had better enter into the life of salvation—..than to pay the forfeit, and suffer the stings of a goading conscience. 1869 A. D. Whitney Hitherto ix Everybody who has a goading ambition has knowledge..of a cold exasperating unrecognition. 1918 Bookseller, Newsdealer & Stationer 1 Mar. 213/2 One glimpses something of their daily rounds,..into which the wealth of leisure, forever a goading but a distant lure, never penetrates. 1980 B. Taylor Green Avenue v. 176 Reid returned again and again to the years of his boyhood in his books; a goading recompense for personal loss. 2004 S. Hall Electric Michelangelo 115 They would have lynched the goading, unrepentant Riley, torn him into shreds. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1548adj.1569 |
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