单词 | obtruncate |
释义 | obtruncateadj. rare. Cut short, truncated. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > maiming or mutilation > [adjective] maimed1340 remuled1481 mutilate1525 dismembered1552 trunked1552 martyred1567 bodiless1587 limbless1594 mutilated1598 memberless1611 maim1653 concised1660 dislimbed1662 truncated1731 obtruncate1805 lop-limbed1809 decurtate1859 1805 London Cries 34 Those props, on which the knees obtruncate stand, That crutch ill-wielded in the widow'd hand. 1913 C. J. Brennan Droning Tram in Poems v The plain obtruncate chancel heaves. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † obtruncatev. Obsolete. transitive. To cut or lop off the head or top of; to decapitate. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > removal or displacement > remove or displace [verb (transitive)] > remove or take away > the top or front part poll1577 behead1579 obtruncate1599 decapitate1776 1599 1st Bk. 1st Preserv. Henry VII Bluddy Polymnestor (which of gould was so desirus) Beastly did obtruncate Priamus sonne, young Polidorus. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Obtruncate, to cut off ones head. 1657 R. Tomlinson tr. J. de Renou Physical Inst. iii, in Medicinal Dispensatory sig. Mmm The Female [sc. Viper], satiated with..pleasure, obtruncates the Male. 1885 S. Thelwall tr. Tertullian On Modesty (1994) i. 75/1 The same fate might befall those, too, who obtruncate the pure and true integrity of the flesh. Derivatives obtruncated adj. ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > vertical extent > lack of height > [adjective] > made low(er) > by cutting down obtruncated1762 razeed1821 1762 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy V. iii. 28 The proudest pyramid of them all..has lost its apex, and stands obtruncated in the traveller's horizon. 1863 N. Hawthorne Our Old Home I. 66 Rustic chairs..ponderously fashioned out of the stumps of obtruncated trees. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < adj.1805v.1599 |
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