单词 | oathed |
释义 | oathedadj. That is corroborated by an oath; promised or assured by the swearing of an oath; that has sworn an oath. Also: prone to or characterized by oaths of a specified kind or number (only in compounds, as many-oathed, etc.). ΘΚΠ the mind > language > malediction > oaths > [adjective] > full of oaths many-oathed1607 oathful1851 1607 T. Dekker Whore of Babylon sig. I3v Thee therefore I coniure (if not by faith, Oathed allegeance, nor thy conscience, Perhaps this ranckling vlcerateth them) Yet by thy hopes of blisse, tell, and tell true, Who i'st must let vs bloud? 1828 J. Wilson in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 24 296 Cursing and swearing in triumph in a many-oathed language. 1929 C. McWilliams Ambrose Bierce viii. 147 Where he had formerly been satirical in a rather amused manner, he was now vituperative and broad-oathed. 1975 Slavic Rev. 34 689 A conversation Which has begun and continues without end In the six-oathed expanse. 1990 B. Berman Control & Crisis in Colonial Kenya viii. 348 Hundreds of young men, many of them oathed militants, were rounded up in police sweeps. 2000 Albuquerque (New Mexico) Jrnl. 2 Nov. a3 If officers of a court become barriers to the Constitution's (recipe) contrary to their ‘oaths’ by defending frauds..of their likewise ‘oathed’ associates, then such a mass of obstructions must, (and will be) removed. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1607 |
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