单词 | misgotten |
释义 | misgottenadj. Now rare. 1. Wrongly acquired or obtained; ill-gotten. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > acquisition > [adjective] > obtained or acquired > by evil means wrong-gotten1388 evil winc1425 extort1430 misgottena1450 evil-gotten1539 ill-gottena1555 misbegotten1591 ill-gota1616 a1450 Castle Perseverance (1969) l. 2628 Mysgotyn good þe schal schende. 1550 R. Crowley One & Thyrtye Epigrammes sig. Ciii The goodis mysgoten that men do ther at wynne. 1596 E. Spenser Second Pt. Faerie Queene vi. i. sig. Z6 Leaue..that misgotten weft To him, that hath it better iustifyde. View more context for this quotation 1649 Bp. J. Hall Resol. & Decisions iv. ix. 483 Secretly-mis-gotten dispensations. 1793 J. Thelwall Peripatetic III. 61 Mighty Statesmen hurl'd From Power's misgotten, or polluted Seat. 1879 Scribner's Monthly Dec. 311/1 I come to win back thy misgotten prize. 1903 W. S. Jackson Nine Points of Law vi. 171 Here was he with a trunk-load of misgotten gold wandering haphazard..over two countries. 2. = misbegotten adj. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > kinsman or relation > child > relationship to parent > [adjective] > illegitimate cheves-bornOE misbegetc1325 bastc1330 misbegettenc1330 bastard1376 unlawfula1425 naturalc1425 illegitime1502 base1529 base-begot1534 illegitimate1536 misbegotten1554 bastarded1579 misborn1583 nameless1594 spurious1598 unfathered1600 misgotten1623 misbegot1626 baseborn1645 slip-sprung1665 born in (or under or out of) wedlock1675 side wind1738 love-begotten1761 born on the wrong side of the blanket1771 anonymous1869 sinistral1897 1623 J. Abbot Iesus Præfigured i. 22 That Adam must Father, the mis-gotten brat. 1652 E. Benlowes Theophila ii. xxxi. 27 Misgotten Brat! 1904 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 89/1 Cornwallis sahib..had beaten Tippu, and those misgotten Mysore log [= men]. 1976 Jrnl. Econ. Lit. 14 917/2 Pajestka firmly believes in the power of ideas, misgotten and otherwise. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1450 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。