单词 | arrant |
释义 | arrantadj.ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > travel from place to place > [adjective] walkingc1390 arrant1550 ambulatory1604 itinerating1611 itinerary1617 stray1620 strolling1621 itineral1627 itineratea1628 perambulatory1650 peregrinatory1773 obambulatory1855 perambulant1865 perambulating1926 c1400 Circumcis. in W. B. D. D. Turnbull Visions of Tundale (1843) 97 To bryng the lost schepe ageyn..That was errawnt, ydyl, and in vayne.] 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Bi (title) Of Baylife Arrantes. 1557 Malory's Story Noble & Worthy Kynge Arthur (Copland) vii. x With that knyght wyll I juste, for I see that he is a knyght arraunt. 1596 W. Warner Albions Eng. (rev. ed.) ix. xlvi. 219 Arrant Preachers, humming out a common-place or two. 1647 L. Haward Charges Crown Revenue 18 Bayliffe arrant. Fee.—4l. 11s. 3d. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Bailiffs Errant are those whom the Sheriff appoints to go up and down the County to serve Writs, etc.] 2. In thief errant, arrant thief [= robber] originally an outlawed robber roving about the country, a freebooter, bandit, highwayman; hence, a public, notorious, professed robber, a ‘common thief,’ an undisguised, manifest, out-and-out thief. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > thief > robber > brigand > [noun] brigand1421 snaphance1539 thief errant1553 freebooter1570 filibuster1591 bandit1594 Robin Hood1597 mosser1651 moss-trooper1651 free-rider1821 cateran1870 c1386 G. Chaucer Manciple's Tale 120 An outlawe or a thef erraunt. [See the whole passage.] 1553 J. Bale Vocacyon in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 362 The most errande thefe and mercilesse murtherer. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 407 There is not so ranke a traytor, nor so arrant a thefe. 1637 J. Pocklington Sunday no Sabbath 13 The arrantest Pharisee theefe in Jerusalem. 1724 J. Swift Blunders of Quilca in Wks. (1755) VI. ii. 174 Every servant an arrant [1745: errant] thief as to victuals and drink. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xxvii. 247 Who, like errant thieves, could not hold up their heads in an honest house. 3. a. Hence: Notorious, manifest, downright, thorough-paced, unmitigated. Extended from thief to traitor, knave, rebel, coward, usurer; after 1575 widely used as an opprobrious intensive, with fool, dunce, ass, idiot, hypocrite, Pharisee, Papist, Puritan, infidel, atheist, blasphemer, and so on through the whole vocabulary of abuse. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous person > [adjective] flagitiousc1384 arrant1393 errant1393 scarleta1643 atrocious1772 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated > of a person arrant1393 errant1393 starka1470 unconscionable1591 omnipotent1596 incarnative1598 run devil1786 incarnate1820 blithering1889 1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. vii. 307 An erraunt vsurer. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. lxxx. f. xxxiv Beynge a errant Traytoure. 1538 Bp. C. Tunstall in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) I. i. xliv. 338 Reginald Pole, comen of a noble blood, and thereby the more errant traitor. 1553 Procl. in J. Strype Eccl. Memorials (1721) III. App. vi. 10 The most arrande traytour Syr John Dudley. a1592 R. Greene Frier Bacon (1594) sig. C2v Why thou arrant dunce shal I neuer make thee good scholler. 1603 W. Shakespeare Hamlet i. v. 128 Hee's an arrant knaue. 1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert Dvke of Normandy in Poems (new ed.) 316 Which she to Sots and arrant Ideots threw. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy ii. iii. ii. 391 A nobleman therefore in some likelyhood..[is] a proud foole, & an arrant asse. 1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness v. xiii. 168 Either an arrant Infidel or horrid Blasphemer. 1679 R. Mansell Exact & True Narr. Late Popish Intrigue Addr. Who may prove good tools, though errant Fools. 1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 319 They are errant Cowards. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiv. iii. 132 The arrantest Villain that ever walked upon two Legs. View more context for this quotation 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 34 As arrant a crew of scapegraces as ever were collected together. 1838 W. Howitt Rural Life Eng. I. ii. v. 188 The inhabitants of solitary houses are often most arrant cowards. b. transferred of things, i.e. opprobrious deeds and qualities, theft, presumption, lie, device, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > heinousness > heinous thing > [adjective] errant1393 arrant1639 the world > relative properties > quantity > greatness of quantity, amount, or degree > high or intense degree > [adjective] > utter or absolute > of something bad or reprobated properc1430 arrant1639 erranta1720 defecated1796 unredeemed1799 blank1854 first class1868 prize1903 mucking1917 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre v. xxx. 285 It were arrant presumption for Flesh to prescribe God his way. 1693 R. Bentley Boyle Lect. i. 10 [They] cover the most arrant Atheism under the mask and shadow of a Deity. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison IV. xxxiv. 239 I am afraid I have written arrant nonsense. 1776 T. Pennant Tour Scotl. ii. 327 This hill, till about the year 995, was an errant desert..and uninhabitable. 1858 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. (1869) III. v. 480 Little better than arrant trifling. 4. Without opprobrious force: Thorough, downright, genuine, complete, ‘regular’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > foundation in fact, validity > [adjective] > genuine, real soothc888 soothlyc888 soothfastc1175 germanec1384 truea1398 sickera1400 upright?a1500 uncounterfeita1542 righteous1543 legitimate1551 truepennya1556 arrant1570 uncounterfeited1571 real1573 current1578 genuinal1599 unforged1610 unpretended1611 legitime1614 unabusinga1628 Lubish1632 genuine1639 undissembled1651 undissimulate1652 ingenuine1661 infallacious1677 real live1684 unfalsified1688 unmistaken1694 pukka1776 undissimulated1776 unassumed1818 uncynical1824 Simon Pure1834 sure-enough1837 unsimulated1840 straight-out1848 true blue1852 veritable1862 really (and) truly1864 authentic1868 true-metal1868 kosher1896 twenty-four carat1900 honest to goodness1905 echt1916 dinky-di1918 McCoy1928 twenty-two carat1962 right1969 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Bivv/1 Arrant, grandis, magnus. 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie lxxi. 193 Good and arrant Terriers..to make the foxe or Badgerd start the soner. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva 95 He that shall behold its grain..will never scruple to pronounce it arrant wood. 1704 N. Rowe Ulysses Epil. 15 They Like arrant Huswives, rise by Break of Day. 1820 W. Irving Sketch Bk. II. 59 A tight brisk little man, with the air of an arrant old bachelor. a. With the opprobrious force transferred to the adjective: Thoroughly bad, good for nothing, rascally. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > [adjective] forcouthc888 goodlesseOE undoughtya1225 voidc1380 bare1399 stark naught1528 worthilessa1542 queer1567 worthless1573 hilding1577 baggage1580 arrant1581 offal1588 lorel1590 losel1601 ragamuffin1602 loselled1606 loselly1611 valuelessa1616 ragamuffa1626 good-for-nothing1706 ne'er-do-well1773 rotten1813 neat1824 scamping1832 good-for-naught1835 no good1838 scampish1847 ne'er-do-wellish1890 no good1904 upter1919 never-do-well1933 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > roguery, knavery, or rascalry > [adjective] pautenerc1330 palliard1484 varletc1485 knavisha1492 limmer?a1513 limmerful?a1513 briberous?1536 patchingc1555 rascal1566 roguing1566 roguish1575 arrant1581 skybala1585 rascally1586 land-loping1587 shag-ragc1590 Scanderbegging1593 Scanderbeg1601 rogorous1609 rogueya1627 scoundrel1643 schelmish1654 skelm1673 rapscallionly1699 rapscallion1711 scoundrelly1790 furciferous1823 scapegrace1830 1581 B. Rich Farewell Mil. Profession (1846) 25 Her beautie had so entangled her arrant hoste. 1593 G. Harvey Pierces Supererogation 6 So forward to accuse, to debase, to reuile..as the arrantest fellow in a country? 1676 W. Wycherley Plain-dealer iii. i Mine's as arrant a Widow-Mother, to her poor Child, as any's in England. 1708 A. Pope Corr. 1 Nov. (1956) I. 51 You are not so arrant a Critick, [of the Modern Poets] as to damn them..without hearing. 1761 T. Smollett tr. A. R. Le Sage Gil Blas vii. iii It was easy to see through all his piety that he was an arrant author at the bottom. b. as predicate ΚΠ 1806 J. Milton Prose Wks. I. 165 The authority of some synodal canons, which are now arrant [1641 no warrant] to us. 6. as n. A person of no reputation, a good-for-nothing. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > worthlessness > worthless person > [noun] ribalda1250 brethelingc1275 filec1300 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 unsel155. pelf1551 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 scald1575 baggage1594 arrant1605 good-for-nothing1611 hilding1611 vauneant1621 idle-pack1624 thimble-maker1654 never-do-well1664 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 blackguard1732 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 good-for-naught1773 rip1781 mauvais sujet1793 scamp1808 waffie1808 loose fish1809 ne'er-do-good1814 hard bargain1818 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 rodney1877 git1939 no-hoper1944 piss artist1962 society > morality > moral evil > evil nature or character > lack of magnanimity or noble-mindedness > [noun] > worthlessness > good-for-nothing person brethelingc1275 filec1300 dogc1330 ribald1340 waynouna1350 waster1352 lorel1362 losel1362 land-leaper1377 triflera1382 brothelc1390 javelc1400 leftc1400 lorerc1400 shackerellc1420 brethel1440 never-thrift1440 vagrant1444 ne'er-thrifta1450 never-thrivinga1450 nebulona1475 breelc1485 naughty pack?1534 brathel1542 carrion1547 slim1548 unsel155. pelf1551 shifterc1562 rag1566 wandrel?1567 land-loper1570 nothing-worth1580 baggage1594 roly-poly1602 bash-rag1603 arrant1605 ragabash?1609 flabergullion1611 hilding1611 hard bargain1612 slubberdegullion1612 vauneant1621 knick-knacker1622 idle-pack1624 slabberdegullion1653 thimble-maker1654 whiffler1659 never-do-well1664 good-for-nought1671 ne'er-be-good1675 shack1682 vagabond1686 shabaroon1699 shag-bag1699 houndsfoot1710 ne'er-do-well1737 trumpery1738 rap1742 hallion1789 scamp1808 waffie1808 ne'er-do-good1814 vaurien1829 sculpin1834 shicer1846 good-for-nothing1847 wastrel1847 scallywag1848 shack-bag1855 beat1865 toe-rag1875 rodney1877 toe-ragger1896 low-lifer1902 punk1904 lowlife1909 ringtail1916 git1939 no-hoper1944 schlub1950 piss artist1962 dead leg1964 1605 N. Breton I pray you be not Angrie sig. C Her good man, who should be sent of Errandes, while she were with her Arrants. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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