单词 | morigerate |
释义 | morigerateadj. rare. ΚΠ ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 51 Þat percusionz þat ar in þe articlez beþ al yuel morigerate, i. manered [?c1425 Paris euel-þewed; L. male morigerate], knoweþ al men almost. ?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.) f. 83v (MED) Fourme we a man nedyng helyng of an vlcere yuel morigerate. 2. Compliant, obedient. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > [adjective] > obedient hearsumc900 buxomc1175 obedient?c1225 yherec1315 obeisantc1325 obeyant1417 obeishinga1425 obeyand?a1425 obeisand?c1450 morigeratea1533 morigerousc1600 parent1656 biddable1826 a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1546) sig. Z.viijv The armies..were as well disciplined and morigerate, as the schooles of the philosophies. 1575 J. Rolland Treat. Court Venus iii. f. 36 Baith ald and ȝoung richt weill Morigerat. 1836 J. H. Newman Lett. & Corr. (1891) II. 199 They were morigerate, through the Exhortation and half the Confession, when they bolted. 1932 ‘H. MacDiarmid’ Scots Unbound 16 Haud on! We'll mak' them morigerate yet. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). morigeratev. rare. intransitive. To be obedient or compliant; to conform. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > obedience > obey or be obedient to [verb (transitive)] > comply with the will of suea1300 conform1482 to dance to or after (a person's) pipe, whistle1546 morigerate1623 comply1650 correspond1677 supple1741 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Morigerate, to doe as one is commanded, to obey. 1936 M. Sturt Be Gentle to Young iv I'd rather go into business and ‘sleep my way to the top’, as someone says in a book, than spend my whole life morigerating and pretending I was what I wasn't. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?a1425v.1623 |
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