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单词 monoculous
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monoculousadj.

Brit. /mɒˈnɒkjᵿləs/, U.S. /məˈnɑkjələs/
Forms: 1600s monosculous (irregular), 1600s– monoculous.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin monoculus , -ous suffix.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin monoculus (see monoculus n.) + -ous suffix. Compare earlier monocular adj., monoculate adj.
Now rare.
One-eyed. Also in extended use.
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the world > life > the body > external parts of body > head > face > eye > [adjective] > having > specific number
one-eyedOE
monoculusc1450
Polyphemian1602
monoculate1618
monocular1640
unocular1653
monoculous1656
Polyphemous1695
monoptical1821
Polyphemic1837
triocular1844
monophthalmic1857
monops1857
two-eyed1864
thousand-eyed1871
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Monocular, Monosculous [sic], that hath but one eye, one ey'd.
a1661 T. Fuller Worthies (1662) Wales 30 He telleth us also of Monoculous Fishes.
1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 129 We judge truth to be circumscrib'd by the confines of our belief,..and..repute all the rest of the world Monoculous.
1785 Gentleman's Mag. 55 i. 267 (note) But Polypheme surely was monoculous.
1845 W. Napier Conquest Scinde ii. ii. 283 Outram's monoculous diplomacy.
1862 Jrnl. Asiatic Soc. Bengal 1861 30 206 (note) Every one-eyed man, in these parts, [is now known] as Holkar, from the monoculous Maráthá chieftain of that name.
1887 O. W. Holmes in Atlantic Monthly 59 638 Dr. Knox was the monoculous Waterloo surgeon, with whom I remember breakfasting.
1927 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 21 8 The peril of substituting monoculous inquiries for venturesome judgements.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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