单词 | reined-back |
释义 | > as lemmasreined-back 1. Provided with reins; guided or restrained by reins (literal and figurative). Frequently with following adverbs corresponding to phrasal verbs, as reined-back, reined-in, reined-up. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > [adjective] > restrained bridled1567 retent1568 restrained1578 controlled1581 snubbed1583 retained1592 retentive1599 curbed1600 repressed1606 stifleda1643 suspense1667 light1740 reined-in1740 checked1793 reined-up1835 reticent1877 snaffled1877 directed1891 a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 31v Habenatus, reyned. ?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 103 Renede [1483 BL Add. 89074 Renyd], habenatus. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid x. v. 95 With renit lyonis ȝokkit to thi chayr. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια i. v. 13 Nature hath giuen thee but one tongue, tied with ten Muscles, and reyned with a very strong ligament. 1671 E. Fowler Design Christianity ii. ix. 105 The Reined in and Ruled Faculty. 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 168 He approached me with a sort of reined-in Rapture. 1835 W. Irving Tour on Prairies 167 The poor, mutilated, harnessed, checked, reined-up victim of luxury. 1905 W. H. Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism II. vii. 174 At first acquaintance with the poet, I thought that later in my knowledge of him I should see some phases of the reined-back pose of Woolner's bust, but this I was unable to do. 1961 New Statesman 21 July 92/1 The reined-back rhythms of this verse are especially pleasing. 1999 H. Middleton Grimm's Last Fairytale xiv. 116 A fresh white gelding waited, saddled and reined, with two bags strapped across its haunches. 2000 H. Simpson Hey Yeah Right (2001) 2 She looked back down her years at school, the reined-in feeling, the stupors of boredom, the teachers in the classrooms like tired lion-tamers. < as lemmas |
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