单词 | legended |
释义 | legendedadj. 1. Described or celebrated in legends; legendary. ΚΠ 1609 King James VI & I Premonition Most Mightie Monarches 37 in Apol. for Oath Allegiance I am loath to beleeue all the tales of the legended Saints. 1893 Illustr. London News Christmas No. 9/1 The legended pursuit of Daphne by Apollo. 1945 Classical Jrnl. 41 5/1 Croesus, the legended king of his native land. 2001 K. Mew in J. Gillingham Anglo-Norman Stud. XXIII 165 I have also effectively added my own layer of mythology to an already legended landscape. 2. Bearing an inscription or legend (legend n. 5a). Cf. legendless adj. ΘΚΠ society > communication > writing > written text > an inscription > [adjective] > bearing inscription inwrittena1382 storied1481 lettered1593 charactered1598 mottoed1738 inscriptional1777 inscribed1826 legended1847 inscriptured1881 inscriptioned1888 inscripted1923 sloganed1966 1847 E. A. Poe Ulalume in Amer. Rev. Dec. 600 By the door of a legended tomb. 1886 Cent. Mag. 32 595 The land of the legended fan and the lacquered box. 1976 Jrnl. Numismatic Soc. India 38 i. 42 His reign thus forms a period of transition from legended coins to legendless coins. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1609 |
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