单词 | mustered |
释义 | musteredadj. Gathered together; collected, assembled. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > [adjective] > gathering, collecting, or coming together > gathered together gathereda1425 congregate1432 collect?a1475 congested1578 mustered1596 congregateda1616 collected1670 massed1837 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. I4 Three thousand Souldiers mustred men in pay, Of Almaynes, Swisers, trustie Henawers. 1601 J. Deacon & J. Walker Summarie Answere to Darel 169 By that then which is hitherto spoken concerning your mustered Fathers, you may easilie iudge the very iust length of all the others footings. 1638 G. Sandys Paraphr. Job (1648) 54 Know'st thou how God collects the Must'red Clouds, How in their darknesse hee his lightning shrouds? 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 141 Himself their Herdsman, on the middle Mount, Takes of his muster'd Flocks a just Account. View more context for this quotation 1723 R. Blackmore Alfred ix. 306 You to the King should unreluctant yield, And lead his muster'd Warriours to the Field. 1778 W. Stevenson Ode to Peace iv. xxxix. 16 United we can stand A Continent in arms, All Europe's muster'd legions. 1827 R. Emmons Fredoniad II. xvi. 179 Like muster'd thunders, when they wrathful break..such was the peal From Freedom's youth. 1897 J. Conrad Nigger of ‘Narcissus’ i. 12 Donkin vanished suddenly out of the light into the dark group of mustered men. 1975 L. A. Pockley Handbk. for Jackeroos 64 There are two types of droving—‘paddock’ droving of mustered sheep through paddocks, or ‘road’ droving of travelling mobs. 1988 M. Lister Cornish Times Reflected (BNC) 40 The troubled Tudor days when hastily mustered Cornish armies invaded England. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1596 |
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