单词 | lacking |
释义 | lackingn. 1. The condition of being without or in want of (something); deficiency. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [noun] > deficiency, lack, or shortage wanec888 trokingc1175 want?c1225 defaultc1300 trokea1325 fault1340 lacking1377 scarcityc1380 wantingc1390 absencea1398 bresta1400 defect?a1425 lack?c1425 defailing1502 mank?a1513 inlaik1562 defection1576 inlaiking1595 vacuity1601 deficience1605 lossa1616 failancea1627 deficiency1634 shortness1669 falling shorta1680 miss1689 wantage1756 shortage1868 the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > blame > [noun] teleeOE tolec1000 wite?c1225 lacking1377 blaminga1382 blame1393 lack1487 dashing1591 taxation1605 inculpation1822 scapegoating1943 scapegoatism1961 the mind > possession > non-possession > [noun] > state of being devoid of something > lacking or being without something missOE tharningc1175 missinga1375 lacking1377 wantingc1390 necessitya1393 destitutiona1440 poverty?1440 misture1563 unprovidedness1606 unprovision1631 wantingness1643 carency1655 nudity1656 destituteness1818 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xiii. 26 And as low as a lombe for lakkyng of that hym nedeth. c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) i. liii This nought is no thinge elles but derkenes of conscyence, a lackynge of loue and of lyghte. 1495 Trevisa's Bartholomeus De Proprietatibus Rerum (de Worde) xix. xiii. sig. II.iv/2 Þe body is pale and dyscoloured wythout for scarsytee & lackynge of blood. 1509 S. Hawes Pastime of Pleasure (1845) xxi. 100 Where that is mesure there is no lacking. 1543 tr. Act 1 Rich. III c. 13 The sellar shall allow or rebate at the same pryce to the Byar..asmoche money as suche lackyng [Fr. defaute] after the rate shall amount to. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Edward IV f. ccxxxiii At euery table were apoynted.v.or.vi.gentelmen..to se them serued without lacking. a1851 D. M. Moir Birth Flowers iv, in Poet. Wks. (1852) I. 133 The Dreamer wist not what might be The thing a-lacking. ΚΠ c1440 W. Hylton Scala Perfeccionis (1494) ii. xxii To suffre at that may falle, ease or unease: praysyng or lackyng. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclii Nothing by reason of that turneth in to thy praysing ne lackyng. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lackingadj. 1. Of things: not at hand; missing; also, short in quantity. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > absence > [adjective] > absent, lost, or lacking absenta1398 wanting?a1425 lacking1480 alacka1529 void1554 defaulting1584 lacked1590 lack1591 destituent1660 unaccounted1799 truant1869 the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > deficient or wanting wanec825 thurfec1175 lacking1480 indigent1531 defect1543 awanting1583 missed1584 wanting1592 defective1603 wanted1619 half-baked1627 deficient1632 manqué1773 1480 Wardrobe Accts. Edward IV in N. H. Nicolas Privy Purse Expenses Elizabeth of York (1830) 145 Except ij yerdes lakking in alle. 1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 82 The Rood with a paire of Clappers Lackinge. 1611 Bible (King James) Lev. ii. 13 Neither shalt thou suffer the salt of the Couenant of thy God to bee lacking from thy meat offering. View more context for this quotation 1879 J. Tyndall Fragm. Sci. (ed. 6) II. ii. 11 Flour was lacking to make the sacramental bread. 1881 Evans in Speaker's Comm. N.T. III. 241 Historical materials are lacking. 2. Of persons, etc.: Deficient, falling short, in want; also, defaulting. †Of a limb: Crippled. Of a district: Destitute. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [adjective] > of limb lamea1400 lacking1657 game1775 gammy1861 bockety1937 the mind > possession > poverty > [adjective] > poor havelessOE unrichOE waedlec1000 armOE nakedOE helplessc1175 wantsomec1175 poora1200 barec1220 needfula1225 misease?c1225 unwealya1300 needyc1325 feeblec1330 poorful1372 mischievousc1390 miseasedc1390 indigentc1400 meanc1400 naughtyc1400 succourless1412 unwealthyc1412 behove1413 misterousa1425 misterfulc1480 miserablec1485 beggarly1545 starved1563 threadbare1577 penurious1590 fortuneless1596 wealthless1605 wantful1607 necessitous1611 inopulent1613 titheless1615 egene1631 starveling1638 necessitated1646 inopious1656 parsimonious1782 unopulent1782 lacking1805 bushed1819 obolary1820 ill-to-do1853 down at heel1856 po'1866 needsome1870 down-at-heeled1884 rocky1921 the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without wane971 quit?c1225 helpless1362 desolatec1386 wantsomea1400 ungirtc1412 voidc1420 wantinga1475 destitutea1500 unfurnished1541 defect1543 bankrupt1567 frustrate1576 wanting1580 wanting1592 sterile1642 minus1807 lacking1838 to be stuck up for1860 short1873 wanting1874 quits1885 light1936 the mind > possession > non-possession > [adjective] > devoid of something > lacking or without > poorly supplied or equipped > specifically of persons feeblec1330 insufficient1426 unpurveyeda1492 dispurveyeda1513 penurous1594 short1763 hard-run1834 lacking1868 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 18 Clisophus the Sycophant of Philip feigned himself lame, because his Master had through a wound a laking legge. 1805 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 3 310 The lean and lacking corners of the empire produce the most hardy and robust people. 1838 T. Chalmers Wks. XIII. 186 He may regard God in the light of a jealous exactor and himself in the light of a lacking tributary. 1868 J. T. Nettleship Ess. Browning's Poetry i. 44 The tree must give me its leaf or I must go lacking. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 23 In all kingly qualities he was utterly lacking. 1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 61 Grant..This same law found lacking now. Draft additions 1997 Frequently const. in. ΚΠ 1902 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession Pref. p. xxi Critics..revile me as lacking in passion, in feeling, in manhood. 1927 S. T. Warner Mr. Fortune's Maggot 30 He would not like to think him lacking in natural affection. 1983 R. Sutcliff Blue Remembered Hills (1984) ix. 69 Though not usually lacking in imagination, I never realized what marvels could have been wrought with a lick of prettier paint. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1901; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1377adj.1480 |
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