| 单词 | half-savage |
| 释义 | > as lemmashalf-savage a. With nouns denoting persons, as in half-barbarian, half-believer, half bringer, half christian, half convert, half-defender, half deliverer, half-enemy, half fool, half-friend, half-literate, half-savage. Now somewhat rare. ΘΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > incompleteness > [adjective] halfa1300 brokec1380 incompletec1380 imperfecta1398 infecta1398 unperfecta1398 uncompletec1430 unfullc1450 partile1576 unentire?1605 half-faced1607 fragmentary1612 broken1634 partiary1654 fractional1675 fractionarya1690 half-way1694 fragmentala1763 half-and-half1796 fragmentitious1827 incompleted1836 sectional1848 mincemeaty1870 OE Ælfric Gram. (St. John's Oxf.) 27 Semiuir healfmann. OE Prudentius Glosses (Boulogne 189) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Prudentius Glosses (1959) 56 Semipes : healffeþe. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 50 (MED) An half frynde tariere to soule helthe..seith that he wil not leevyn the forseyd sentense of myraclis pleyinge. c1443 R. Pecock Reule of Crysten Religioun (1927) 78 (MED) Euer eiþer of ȝou [sc. Father and Son] is ful hool and parfit bringer forþ of þe same holigoost and ful deliverer of hise goodis, and not oon of ȝou an half brynger and an half deliuerer wiþ oþer. 1577 H. I. tr. H. Bullinger 50 Godlie Serm. III. v. iv. sig. Ffff.vv/2 Both dawes and halfe fooles may bee made ministers or byshoppes. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iv. v. f. 116v The greater part whereof being halfe christians. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. 143 To speake as halfe defendors of the faults. a1765 E. Young Wks. (1767) IV. 81 Half converts to the right. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 120 A parcel of half-barbarians. 1836 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 25 5 See how incapable half-savages are of co-operation. 1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 28 454 The sceptics and half-believers of the story. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 399/2 The uneasy half-literates who like to prove that they can spell. 2007 D. T. Courtwright in M. C. Carnes Columbia Hist. Post-World War II Amer. xiv. 335 Like the Democrats of the 1940s and 1950s, the Republicans had become an uneasy coalition of half-enemies. half-savage a. With adjectives and pa. pples. Already in Old English: see above. Very common in later use, esp. with pa. pples., to which half- may be prefixed whenever the sense suits: e.g. half-afraid, half-awake, half-blind, half-crazy, half-deaf, half-drunk, half-full, half-human, half-learned, half-mad, half-open, half-raw, half-ripe, half-savage, half-true; half-armed, half-ashamed, half-bent, half-buried, half-cured, half-disposed, half-done, half-dressed, half-eaten, half-educated, half-finished, half-formed, half-hidden, half-opened, half-roasted, half-ruined, etc., etc. With adjs. expressing shape, it implies the form of half the figure, as half-cordate, half-sagittate, half-terete. extracted from half-comb. form (a) in the predicate. ΚΠ c893 tr. Orosius Hist. iii. ix. §4 & funde hiene..healf~cucne. OE Cynewulf Elene 133 Sume healfcwice flugon on fæsten ond feore burgon æfter stanclifum, stede weardedon ymb Danubie. Sume drenc fornamon lagostreame lifes ætende. c1000 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 163/7 Subalbus, healfhwit. c1475 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 710/3 Semicecus, halfblynd. a1626 Bacon Advice to G. Villiers in Wks. (1861) XIII. 53 The officers of the kings houshold..must look both ways, else they are but half-sighted. 1704 Swift Tale of Tub i. 45 As if they were half ashamed to own Us. 1712 Pope Rape of Locke ii, in Misc. Poems 367 Her Eyes half languishing, half drown'd in Tears. 1723 B. Mandeville Ess. Charity in Fable Bees (ed. 2) i. 340 A Rascal Half-drunk. 1725 Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 144 Leave half-heard the melancholy tale. 1741 S. Richardson Pamela III. xxi. 124 Being half-vex'd, and half-afraid of his Raillery. 1826 Scott Jrnl. 29 Dec. (1939) 296 Either half educated or cock-brained by nature. 1844 J. R. Lowell Poems 12 A youth half-smiling. 1845 J. Lindley School Bot. (1858) v. 58 Stipules ovate, half-cordate. 1846 ‘A Lady’ Jewish Man. ii. v. 216 Dresses made half high are..unbecoming; they should either be cut close up to the throat or low. 1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 399 They are half forgotten ere we have learned the language. 1855 C. Kingsley Heroes (1868) ii. iv. 123 Stories of it, some false and some half-true. 1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 55 Half-crazed as she [Meg Merrilies] is described to be. 1863–5 J. Thomson Sunday at Hampstead v, The meat half-done, they tore it and devoured. 1868 Darwin in Life & Lett. (1887) III. 80 Half-sterile, i.e. produce half the full number of offspring. 1880 A. Gray Struct. Bot. vi. §8. 279 Amphitropous, also termed..Half-anatropous. 1880 Contemp. Rev. Feb. 196, I am more than half-disposed to go along with you in what you say. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 162 He was half-minded to resign. 1893 ‘M. Twain’ Man that corrupted Hadleyburg (1900) 269 The station-master..became pleasant and even half-apologetic. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 76, I glanced at the shock-haired creature, alert, half-human, beside me. 1910 J. Morley Cromwell (ed. 2) iii. 54 Never more were fish caught there, and the neighbouring town was half ruined. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 41 The dim light of full, healthy life That is always half-dark. 1936 Mind 45 252 What were the views concealed or half-concealed, expressed or half-expressed? 1937 Brit. Birds 30 240 We have two records of single adults spending one day in the nest when their young were half-fledged. 1961 M. W. Barley Eng. Farmhouse & Cottage iv. ii. 196 Roofs gabled and half-hipped. (b) as attribute. ΚΠ 1593 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie i. viii. 67 Certaine halfwaking men. a1616 Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. ii. 54 The halfe-blowne Rose. View more context for this quotation 1629 G. Chapman tr. Juvenal Fifth Satyre in Iustification Nero 293 That half-eat hare will fall..to our shares. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1954) VII. 59 The halfe-present man, he, whose body is here, and minde away. 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin ii. 16 And clos'd her speech with an half-dying swoon. 1687 Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 96 The clown unread, and half-read gentleman. a1711 T. Ken Hymnotheo in Wks. (1721) III. 333 Half-form'd Words. 1726 Pope tr. Homer Odyssey V. xxii. 196 The half-shut door conceal'd his lurking foes. 1772 Hunter in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 62 453 Half-digested food. 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 18 The learned; the half learned; and those who were neither. 1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 223 In one of his half-earnest, half-joking moods. 1827 R. Southey Hist. Peninsular War II. 679 The half-armed, half-clothed, half-hungered Arragonese. c1827 J. S. Mill in Adelphi (1924) I. 689 A half-cultivated taste is always caught by gaudy, affected, and meretricious ornament. 1833 J. S. Mill Lett. (1910) i. 41 It looks like the production of some half-fledged pupil of yours. 1837 H. Hallam Introd. Lit. Europe I. viii. 602 Some half-informed critics. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. iii. 22 Her half-childish, half-womanly grief. 1843 J. S. Mill Syst. Logic II. v. ii. 345 It is in those steps of the reasoning which are made in this tacit and half-conscious, or even wholly unconscious manner, that the error oftenest lurks. 1847 M. M. Sherwood Life xii. 220 A little half-coloured child..from India. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xvii. 91 Their half crazy conceits on these subjects. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick l. 257 Some sort of a half-hinted influence. 1853–4 J. S. Mill Draft Autobiogr. (1961) 116, I had a half formed intention of writing a History of the French Revolution. 1854 H. D. Thoreau Walden 286 Thus, with half-shut eyes, looking out from the land of dreams. 1858 W. Bagehot Coll. Wks. (1965) II. 72 The undefined, half-expressed..feelings. 1869 D. G. Rossetti Let. 27 June (1965) II. 704 A half-crazed charwoman. 1874 J. Sully Sensation & Intuition 95 Vague and half-thought out recollections. 1877 W. Whitman Specimen Days 104 Some good people may think it a feeble or half-cracked way of spending one's time and thinking. 1887 E. Berdoe St. Bernard's 168 Every half-educated..young man. 1895 W. Robinson Eng. Flower Garden (ed. 4) viii. 118 Shade is not essential, though we think the best effects are attained in half-shady spots. 1897 Essex Antiquarian I. 27 When neither stones nor timber were plenty the half-high wall..was early used, and is still common. 1904 W. H. Hudson Green Mansions xv. 208 Leaving her half-human child to play her malicious pranks in the wood. 1907 Daily Chron. 6 Feb. 4/6 Is he really a half-sexed personage? 1908 Westm. Gaz. 23 Jan. 2/3 Some trivial gossip in the half-lit hall. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 29 July 3/2 The forces of Free Trade may be confidently reckoned on to squash the half-believed-in promises of Tariff Reform. 1910 W. de la Mare Three Mulla-mulgars 120 Her half-blind whitening eyes. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 37 Wavering men of old Etruria..Going with insidious, half-smiling quietness. 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers 41 The half-secret gleam of a passion-flower hanging from the rock. 1925 T. Dreiser Amer. Trag. I. ii. xi. 234 He achieved a..half-apologetic smile. 1927 Daily Tel. 15 Nov. 11/7 Most of the ploughing is done with a pair of horses of the half-legged class. 1929 V. Woolf Room of one's Own 127 Those unsaid or half-said words. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 307 Invisible Between the half-visible hordes. 1931 W. Ripman Eng. Phonetics 30 Intermediate positions give half-open and half-close vowels. 1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) viii. 38 Half-close vowels are those in which the tongue occupies a position about one-third of the distance from ‘close’ to ‘open’. 1932 D. Jones Outl. Eng. Phonetics (ed. 3) viii. 38 Half-open vowels are those in which the tongue occupies a position about two-thirds of the distance from ‘close’ to ‘open’. 1934 E. Linklater Magnus Merriman 270 In the country of the blind the half-canned man is king. 1937 Burlington Mag. Nov. 234/2 Such half-forgotten artists. 1937 Mind 46 83 There is a scale of ‘standing-outness’ (Abhebung) which reaches from intense experiential clarity to half-conscious habituation. 1941 Mind 50 10 Some [statements] which would usually be called ‘half-joking’ or ‘not serious’, as when the father says, ‘The wolves are gaining.’ 1949 K. S. Woods Rural Crafts Eng. iv. xiii. 200 The delightfully plump and comfortable curves of old Devon roofs are partly due to the ‘hipped’ or ‘half-hipped’ form of the supporting timbers. 1951 W. F. Leopold in S. Saporta & J. R. Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 355/1 The half-open fricatives were satisfactory as terminal consonants. (c) Hence derivatives, as half-dressedness. ΚΠ 1887 Daily News 29 June 5/4 That delicious condition of half-dressedness. half-savage n. In various connections: as half-barbarian, half-battle, half-belief, half-believer, half-christian, half-conformity, half-consciousness, half-dark, half-darkness, half-defence, half-defender, half-dream, half-education, half-hint, half-honesty, half-humour, half-knowledge, half-laugh, half-lengthening, half-lie, half-literate, half-look, half-mind, half-power, half-principle, half-quotation, half-reason, half-reasoning, half-repentance, half-savage, half-servant, half-service, half-sleep, half-spacing (on a typewriter), half-view, half-whisper. (In most of these half- has an adverbial force.) ΚΠ 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxii. 143 To speake as halfe defendors of the faults. 1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxxxi. 258 They iudge conclusions by dimipremises & halfe principles. 1690 J. Locke Two Treat. Govt. i. ii. (Rtldg.) 6 It is no injury to call an half-quotation an half-reason. 1736 Bp. J. Butler Analogy of Relig. ii. viii. 276 Half-views, which shew but Part of an Object. 1768 J. Boswell Acct. Corsica (ed. 2) ii. 120 A parcel of half-barbarians. 1768–74 A. Tucker Light of Nature (1852) II. 367 A kind of half-reasoning, that suffices to raise difficulties but not pursue them to an issue. 1814 J. Austen Mansfield Park II. vii. 148 A certain half-look attending the..expression of his hope. View more context for this quotation 1816 J. Austen Emma II. xvii. 320 Much that passed between them was in a half-whisper . View more context for this quotation 1816 J. Scott Paris Revisited viii. 237 A kind of stupified half-sleep. 1827 H. Hallam Constit. Hist. Eng. I. viii. 514 To admit of no half conformity in religion. 1836 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 25 5 See how incapable half-savages are of co-operation. 1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 28 454 The sceptics and half-believers of the story. 1838 J. S. Mill in London & Westm. Rev. 31 484 Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-minds. 1841 T. Carlyle On Heroes iv. 225 Richter says of Luther's words, ‘his words are half-battles’. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 2 The character of Jehu and his half-belief. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 188 A half-repentance is no repentance. 1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 199 Another instance of this half-service. 1862 G. Borrow Wild Wales II. xxxii. 370 ‘In truth I am,’ said she, with a half laugh. 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 3 Unbelievers, or half-believers. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighbourhood xxxii, A voice said brokenly in a half-whisper. 1870 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 349 That half-knowledge which is more mischievous in an editor than down-right ignorance. 1881 ‘M. Twain’ Prince & Pauper 208 His senses struggled to a half-consciousness. 1895 R. Kipling Day's Work (1898) 344 Leading him on to see, more by half-hints than by any direct word, how boys and men are all of a piece. 1898 Pearson's Mag. May 539/1 With a half-power steamer which had only one man all told upon her decks. 1900 Daily News 18 Aug. 6/1 How she did it she didn't know, she said, in a half-humour manner. 1904 W. de la Mare Henry Brocken 13 The half-dream [which] weariness brings. 1904 W. B. Yeats Tables of Law 9 The formalisms of half-education. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 25 Mar. 11/2 The inaccuracies do not matter very much unless they are so gross as to shock the great half-literate. 1926 H. W. Fowler Dict. Mod. Eng. Usage 399/2 The uneasy half-literates who like to prove that they can spell. 1927 A. Clarke Son of Learning ii. 44 In the half-darkness his cowled figure suggests demonic possession. 1928 D. H. Lawrence Lady Chatterley's Lover xvi. 278 She could still see on Connie's face..the half-dream of passion. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 257 A half-lie causes the immediate contradiction of the half-lie. 1934 E. Blunden Choice or Chance 40 Possessions too,—part fungus and part flower,—Forced on him their half-power. 1934 E. Pound Eleven New Cantos xxxix. 45 From star up to the half-dark. 1937 Mind 46 101 Postulating a sort of extra, separate half-mind—entelechy—like Driesch. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 8 Oct. 638/3 The curious delicate half-humour which smiled at his own hypersensitiveness. 1941 T. S. Eliot Dry Salvages ii. 11 The backward half~look Over the shoulder, towards the primitive terror. 1948 T. S. Eliot Notes Def. Culture 105 But what is important is to remember that ‘half-education’ is a modern phenomenon. 1950 A. Koestler in R. Crossman God that Failed 31 Once or twice she spoke on the telephone to comrades of hers—always in half-words and half-hints. 1953 K. H. Jackson Lang. & Hist. Early Brit. 342 Half-lengthening of penultimates could not have arisen until after the accent-shift. 1959 E. Pulgram Introd. Spectrogr. Speech viii. 64 The half~power points, whose power is..proportional to the square of the amplitude. 1961 Imperial Type Faces 10 A half~spacing device lends itself to display work. 1962 Which? Dec. 359/2 If you leave out a letter, it should be possible, after rubbing out the word, to fit in the extra letter by using half-spacing. < as lemmas |
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