单词 | ill-gendered |
释义 | > as lemmasill-gendered Created, made; engendered, begotten. Frequently as the second element in compounds (chiefly poetic), as hell-gendered, ill-gendered, etc.In quot. 1502 the meaning of ‘gendred kynnysman’ is apparently ‘a man made a kinsman (by marriage)’. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > [adjective] > created or produced wroughtOE wroughtOE producta1398 createa1425 generate?a1425 gendered1502 naturate1509 shaped1540 generated1552 ingeneratea1572 concepted1662 1502 tr. Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) iv. xxi. sig. yivv The gendred kynnysman [Fr. Le gendre] the whiche taketh ony wages, in attendynge the promysse the whiche vnto hym hath ben made, by cause of the maryage of his wyfe by suche wyse that he her mayntene as a husbonde ought to mayntene his espouse. 1720 D. Defoe Life Capt. Singleton 133 The Creature..seem'd to be of an ill-gendered kind. 1822 C. Lloyd Duke d'Ormond iv. ii. 199 Base machinations, and night-gendered intrigues. 1854 C. B. Cayley tr. Dante Divine Comedy: Paradise viii. 59 The gendered Nature would her path still make Like that which her begetters walked of yore. a1882 W. Forster Midas in D. B. W. Sladen Austral. Poets 1788–1888 (1888) 157 The noxious brood Of Hell-gendered monsters. 1912 ‘M. Field’ Poems of Adoration 38 No levin-gendered god's triumphant way The brands of pine confess. ill-gendered ill-gendered adj. Brit. /ˌɪlˈdʒɛndəd/ , U.S. /ˌɪlˈdʒɛndərd/ < as lemmas |
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