menacedadj.
/ˈmɛnᵻst/, U.S. /ˈmɛnəst/ 1. Assailed by a menace or menaces; threatened.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > assailed by threats
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threatened1533
shored1663
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 324/1 Manassyd, or thret, minatus.
1567 A. Golding tr. Ovid Metamorphosis (new ed.) viii. f. 108 The manast Oke did quake and sygh.
1644 J. Vicars Jehovah-jireh 204 Our menaced Arke was borne up above the..Waves.
1737 R. Glover Leonidas i. 10 How best their menac'd liberties to guard.
1860 J. S. Mill Consider. Represent. Govt. (1865) 60/2 Injured or menaced interests.
1907 J. Conrad Secret Agent v. 117 Keeping in check this man armed with the defensive mandate of a menaced society.
1993 M. S. Anderson Rise Mod. Diplomacy (BNC) 107 The advantages for an increasingly enfeebled and menaced Ottoman empire of representation in the capitals of Europe were now too obvious to be disregarded.
2. Held out or indicated as an intended or probable evil or catastrophe. Now rare.
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the world > action or operation > harm or detriment > danger > threat or threatening > [adjective] > held out as impending evil
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interminateda1656
menaced1718
the world > action or operation > adversity > calamity or misfortune > [adjective] > inauspicious > of aspect threatening misfortune > impending (of misfortune)
threatened1567
menaced1718
1718 R. Blackmore Coll. Poems Var. Subj. 157 Jealous the Prince, who Philip's Council blam'd, Against their Lives the menac'd Vengeance aim'd.
1803 Times 3 Oct. 2/1 The accounts from France relative to the menaced invasion.
1872 S. Ferguson Congal ii. 34 The Ultonians stood, to watch if Ronan still should dare, When out of reach of missiles, stand, to make the menaced prayer.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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