单词 | grisly |
释义 | grislyadj. Now only archaic and literary. 1. Causing horror, terror, or extreme fear; horrible or terrible to behold or to hear; causing such feelings as are associated with thoughts of death and ‘the other world’, spectral appearances, and the like. In modern use tending to a weaker sense: Causing uncanny or unpleasant feelings; of forbidding appearance; grim, ghastly. a. of visible objects, their qualities, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] > hideous loathlyc900 grislya1150 hideous1303 unherlyc1325 bysenc1375 vilely1398 laidlya1400 squalid1620 frightful1700 gorgonesque1888 the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] atelOE grislya1150 atelichc1175 grisfula1300 ugly13.. hideous1303 horrible1303 ghastlyc1305 stout1338 horrendc1420 ugsomec1425 grisilc1440 execrable1490 uggle1499 horrious?1520 uglisome1530 ugglesome1561 gruesome1570 grisy1590 gashfulc1600 horrid1602 ghast1622 gashly1627 horrific1653 horrendous1661 horrorous1756 horrifying1791 horrorish1847 grauly1848 a1150 Passio B. Margaretæ in Grein Bibl. Angels. Prosa (1889) III. 175 Þær inn eode an grislic deofol. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 3842 Þohh þatt he grisliȝ deofell seo. c1200 Vices & Virtues (1888) 19 Eifulle dieulen, ðe bieð swa laðliche and swo grislich an to lokin. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 95 Mon i slein is grislich & atelich in monnes echȝe. c1275 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Calig.) (1978) l. 14006 Þer ich isah gripes. and grisliche [c1300 Otho wonderliche] fuȝeles. a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 4935 Ac he haþ sent ȝou to socoure so grissiliche an host. c1386 G. Chaucer Monk's Tale 119 He slow the grisly boor. c1386 G. Chaucer Frankl. T. 131 The grisly Rokkes blake. 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 479 May no grysliche gost glyde þer hit shadeweþ. a1500 (?c1450) Merlin i. 15 Ther was none othir women that durste norishe it but the modre, for it was so grysly to syght. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vi. iv. 4 Ane hiddouis hole, deip gapand and grisly. 1551 R. Robinson tr. T. More Vtopia sig. Eiiv A man of grislye and sterne grauitye. 1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Nov. f. 45 Up grieslie ghostes. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. v. sig. E2 Griesly Night, with visage deadly sad. 1607 S. Hieron Good Fight in Wks. (1620) I. 220 The griesly and ghastly countenance of approching death. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn xxiii, in Poems 11 In vain with Cymbals ring, They call the grisly king, In dismall dance about the furnace blue. 1684 Earl of Roscommon Ess. Translated Verse 157 The Greisly Ferry-man of Hell. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 126 Like their grizly Prince appears his gloomy Race. View more context for this quotation 1788 W. Blane Acct. Hunting Excurs. 15 Our grisly enemy [an elephant] was overpowered by the number of bullets. 1815 W. Wordsworth White Doe of Rylstone i. 16 Look down, and see a griesly sight; A vault where the bodies are buried upright! 1841 W. Spalding Italy & Ital. Islands II. 198 Minos, transformed by the Florentine poet..into a strange and grisly shape. 1864 C. Dickens Our Mutual Friend (1865) I. i. xv. 139 There was the old grisly four-post bedstead. 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 152 Hunted by Sorrow's grisly train. 1885 R. L. Stevenson & F. Stevenson Dynamiter 132 The grisly shelter of a coffee-shop. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adjective] > of sounds grislyc1275 c1275 Serving Christ 28 in Old Eng. Misc. 91 Þer is gronynge and grure and gryslich gle. a1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Dido. 1219 The thundyr rorede with a gresely steuene. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 18953 For þat farli sone war þai fus, And ran þaim til þe apostlis hus, All carpand of þat grisli crack. 14.. Sir Beues 2733 + 9 (MS. M.) He keste vp a gret yell That was grisselye as a thonder. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour l. 5545 in Wks. (1931) I Gretand with mony gryslie grone. 1576 A. Fleming Panoplie Epist. Epit. A iv b Ætnaes..grieslie thundering. a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1590) ii. xiv. sig. Y5v With Dayly Diligence and Grisly Grones, he wan her affection. c. of actions, occurrences, conditions; also archaic of threats, imprecations, etc. ΚΠ c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 5 Þat loðeliche word and ateliche and grisliche..Ite maledicti in ignem eternum. a1240 Lofsong in Cott. Hom. 209 Mine sunnen þat ateliche beoð and grisliche i þine eih sihðe.] 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11745 Grisloker weder þan it was ne miȝte anerþe be. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 49 Vor asemoche ase þe zenne is more uoul and more grislich, þe more is worþ þe ssrifte. c1375 XI Pains of Hell 33 in Old Eng. Misc. 211 Gret snow, gret yse, gret cold greslé. c1385 G. Chaucer Legend Good Women Philomela. 2238 So gresely was his dede, That whan that I his foule storye rede, Mynne eyen wexe foule & sore also. c1386 G. Chaucer Pardoner's Tale 380 Many a grisly ooth thanne han thay sworn, And Cristes blessed body thay to-rente. 14.. in F. J. Furnivall Polit., Relig., & Love Poems (1903) 240 Godes grisliche dom. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxxii. f. cliiiiv Gresely and cruell fyght was contynued vpon both sydes. 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis iii. 45 I viewd with wundring a grisly monsterus hazard. 1596 H. Clapham Briefe of Bible i. 58 No maruell, if so greislie a fall, put him from that sacred figuring Seate. 1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. ii. 51 Grisly oaths suit ill with gray beards. 1850 N. Hawthorne Scarlet Let. xii. 182 The like grisly sense of the humorous again stole in among the solemn phantoms of his thought. 1892 A. Jessopp Stud. Recluse (1893) i. 25 The ground..teeming with the tangible memories of grisly conflict. 1892 E. Gosse Secr. Narcisse i. 11 His griesly imagination and adroit hand as a modeller. 2. Ugly. dialect. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > lack of beauty > ugliness > [adjective] foulOE uglyc1386 malgraciousa1393 unsightlya1400 loathc1400 ouglec1415 shrewdc1430 unsightyc1440 unwholesome?a1500 evil-favoured1530 ill-favoured1530 uglisome1530 huggeda1533 hard-favoureda1535 evil-liking1535 ill-favorited1579 stigmatical1589 stigmatic1597 sightlessa1616 hard-featured1638 grislya1681 bad-looking1757 unmackly1765 unfavourable1776 dissightly1777 eyesore1798 wavelled1886 spiderly1891 Plain Jane1912 hackit1985 a1300 Cursor Mundi 23620 Þir sal be fair and dughti bath, Þai sal be grisli and lath.] a1681 J. Lacy Sr. Hercules Buffoon ii. iii, in Dramatic Wks. (1875) 240 Ah, thou's an ill-favoured grizely-like fellow, that is sa. 1684 Yorkesh. Dial. 216 in Specim. Eng. Dial. 159 I wad this grisely Cat was hang'd, for me. 1691 J. Ray N. Country Words in Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 32 Grisly, ugly: from Grize, swine. 1788 W. Marshall Provincialisms E. Yorks. in Rural Econ. Yorks. II. 333 Grizely.., ugly in the extreme. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > [adjective] > inspired by fear grislyc1320 ghastly1590 ghastful1720 gruesome1869 c1320 tr. J. Bonaventura Medit. 101 Eche loked on ouþer with grysly ye, And seyd, ‘lorde wheþer hyt be y?’ c1386 G. Chaucer Parson's Tale ⁋103 Grisly drede that euere shal laste. c1400 St. Jeremie's 15 Tokens (E.E.T.S.) 33 Allas! hou schull we þan ouercome þilk griselich fere, Whan vche seint schal aferde be oure lord crist to see þere? 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 23 Which made the Males leap out of their Cabins with the same grisly Look as if going to give up their last Accounts. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). grislyadv. Obsolete exc. archaic. Horribly, terribly; grimly; so as to inspire terror. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > fear > quality of inspiring fear > quality of being horrible > [adverb] grislyc1200 atelichec1275 uglilya1300 hideously1340 horribly1340 grisfullya1382 uglyc1420 gastfullyc1449 ugsomelyc1450 horriferouslyc1626 gashly1628 hideous1667 horrifically1693 ghastily1829 ghastlily1830 gruesomely1893 grizzel1898 c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 61 Grisliche he us mid orde pilted. a1225 Juliana 69 Te balefule beast..fen[g] on to..grist~beatien grisliche up o þis meoke meiden. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 574 His ax..so grisliche he ssoc & vaste, Þat þe king kwakede & is men. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 81 Satyri..grisliche and wonderliche i-schape. c1394 P.P. Crede 585 Swiche a gome godes wordes grysliche gloseþ. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 16182 I hope þat þai sal bath grisly bi-for him quake. c1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 3843 The thoner grisely gan out-brest. c1400 Melayne 1252 Grisely gronande. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i. 20 a/2 She..was there..in face eyene loke & countenaunce so grysely chaunged..yt yt was a terryble syght to behold. 1563 T. Becon Reliques of Rome (rev. ed.) 245 There is nothing in al this world yt a Christen man or woman ought so griselich to dread, as for to falle into sinne. 1638–48 G. Daniel Eclog. ii. 1 The North lookes grisly blacke. 1656 W. S. Bullokar's Eng. Expositor (rev. ed.) Grisly, abominably, gastly, fearfully. 1869 R. Browning Ring & Bk. III. viii. 170 Læsa, gashed griesly, tam enormiter. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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