单词 | poppied |
释义 | poppiedadj. 1. Having the soporific or narcotic quality of the opium poppy; affected by this, drowsy. Chiefly poetic. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > drowsiness > [adjective] > specific poppied1768 1768 H. Downman Land of Muses 12 And when Sleep gins his tired lids to veil, And wrap the poppied purfle o'er his head. 1785 A. Francis Obsequies of Demetrius 18 Here paus'd the bard—again his tuneful tongue Rous'd torpid Sorrow from her poppied bed. 1805 T. Harral Scenes of Life III. 209 To admit the popied influence of Somnus. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Ilicet 6 The poppied sleep, the end of all. 1881 O. Wilde Poems 75 O for Medea with her poppied spell! a1935 E. A. Robinson Coll. Poems (1937) I. 199 He were a stranger then, Foredrowsed awhile by some deceiving draught Of poppied anguish. 2. Covered or filled with poppies; decorated with poppies. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular cultivated or ornamental plants > particular flower or plant esteemed for flower > [adjective] > filled with poppies poppied1797 1797 R. Polwhele Old Eng. Gentleman 8 Poppied cornfields redd'ning to the sky. 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 15 Their fairest blossom'd beans and poppied corn. 1896 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 8/1 Cornfields and woodlands coming right to the edge of the poppied cliffs. 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress viii. 143 The poppied frieze, the walls, the very floor of marble, seemed to waver. 1943 C. Day Lewis Word over All 15 Over the corn, over the poppied plains. 1987 New Yorker 2 Mar. 34/1 Walking with her in the poppied meadow on the day after her eighteenth birthday. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1768 |
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