单词 | purged |
释义 | purgedadj. 1. That has been cleansed or purified, esp. in a moral or spiritual way; freed from impurity. Also figurative. ΚΠ a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 750 (MED) A bryȝt burnesched swerd he belteþ alofte, Of pur purged gold þe pomel & þe hulte. 1486 Bk. St. Albans sig. c vij Take a quantyte of poorke..and porgede grece. c1550 J. Hall Certayne Chapters Proverbes Salomon sig. F.viiv Whych shall declare as tokens true, our inwarde puritie. I meane the purged offeryng, and eke oblation. 1579 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (Edinb.) 56 in Shorter Poems (2003) 11 The purgit Air with new engendrit heit. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) I. 24 High, & purged Soules Leaue Time & Place, to dull earthporing fooles. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel (1782) ii. 97 Thy purged eye will see God is not slack..to fulfil his word. 1706 R. Brocklesby Explic. Gospel-theism i. 88/1 The purged Soul collecteth her self into her self. 1788 V. Knox Winter Evenings II. v. i. 107 They write not to the people, but to the purged ear of a few speculatists. 1836 E. B. Browning Poet's Vow i. xviii My purged, once human heart. 1895 Jewish Q. 7 614 The former is apprehended in the ecstasy of the great mysteries by the thoroughly purged soul. 1975 Eng. Hist. Rev. 90 152 A purged party survived, but it was now entirely subservient to the Duce. 2003 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 8 Aug. c2 If you've eliminated every aphid in your garden, you've also eliminated their predators... And..the next visitor to your newly purged garden will be an aphid. 2. That has been removed by purging or purification. rare before 20th cent. ΚΠ 1591 (?a1425) Last Judgement (Huntington) in R. M. Lumiansky & D. Mill Chester Myst. Cycle (1974) I. 443 (MED) Saved I hope fullye to bee, for purged synnes that were in mee. 1973 Contemp. Sociol. 2 357/1 The community is once more reunited in a feeling of purged evil and achieved righteousness. 1994 Sci. Amer. Dec. 52/3 Physicians remove bone marrow from a patient and treat it with an agent that selectively kills cancerous cells. Then, after administering chemotherapy to the patient, they return the ‘purged’ cells to the body. 2006 Bazaar (Nexis) 29 May 54 Stalin taught the world that indeed photographs can lie, supervising skilled airbrushers as they eliminated purged party members. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.a1400 |
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