单词 | overmastered |
释义 | overmasteredadj. That has been overmastered; overcome, overpowered, conquered. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > defeat > [adjective] matec1225 conquestc1400 convictc1430 triumphate1471 devict?a1475 vanquishedc1485 discomfecta1529 overcome1530 profligate1535 discomfited1538 defeatc1540 discomfishedc1540 suppriseda1547 beaten1550 conquered1552 ydaunted1581 overmastereda1586 expugned1598 profligated1599 tattered1599 triumphed1605 overcomed1607 fight-rac't?1611 convicteda1616 worsted1641 foiled1810 lost1822 defeateda1859 outfought1891 the world > action or operation > failure or lack of success > defeat or overthrow > [adjective] > overmastered overmastereda1586 mastered1586 bettered1656 a1586 Sir P. Sidney Arcadia (1593) iii. f. 156 As for Zelmane, as she went with her hands bound..she was the true image of ouermaistred courage. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης xxvi. 209 A weake and overmaister'd enemy. 1818 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Canto IV xvi. 11 The car Of the o'ermaster'd victor stops, the reins Fall from his hands. 1850 J. S. Blackie Seven against Thebes 172 Fear hurries on my overmastered tongue. 1892 N. Amer. Rev. Feb. 187 The prince of his state consulted him as to the course that should be adopted towards the then struggling and apparently overmastered Sahebs. 1977 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 49 659 The popular methods adopted from duress were now too threatening with the imbalance created by an overmastered king. 1978 P. Blackburn tr. G. de Cabestanh in Proensa 192 How overmastered I am, I can scarce say. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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