† bestraughtv.adj.

Forms: Also 1500s bestrought.

Etymology: < be- prefix intensive + straught adj. (found as early as 1520); compare also astraught , distraught . The genesis of these forms seems to have been thus: Latin distractus gave distract , and (on some English analogies) distraught n.; thence astraught and straught adj.; hence be-straught and (with reference again to distract) be-stract; finally bestraughted. Found as past participle and also as past tense of a verb, of which the present ought analogically to have been bestract. But this is apparently not found; and the later inflections bestraughted, -ing, imply that bestraught was itself assumed as the present.

Obsolete.

1. as past tense of a verb. Distracted, bereft (of wits).

ΚΠ

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 360 An Oracle..whose spirit possessed many Inhabitants thereabouts, and bestraught them of their wittes.

2. past participle and adj. Distracted, distraught.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [adjective] > distracted

distract1435

bestraughta1547

amused1579

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a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Ci Well nere bestraught,..hys voyce lykewyse gan stycke.

1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. ii. 5 Till shee as one bestrought Did crie.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 459 His wits were bestraught.

1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. vii. 14 Like a man bestraught he ranne after them.

1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxxviii. 326 I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	bestraught
释义	† bestraughtv.adj. Forms: Also 1500s bestrought. Etymology: < be- prefix intensive + straught adj. (found as early as 1520); compare also astraught , distraught . The genesis of these forms seems to have been thus: Latin distractus gave distract , and (on some English analogies) distraught n.; thence astraught and straught adj.; hence be-straught and (with reference again to distract) be-stract; finally bestraughted. Found as past participle and also as past tense of a verb, of which the present ought analogically to have been bestract. But this is apparently not found; and the later inflections bestraughted, -ing, imply that bestraught was itself assumed as the present. Obsolete. 1. as past tense of a verb. Distracted, bereft (of wits). ΚΠ 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 360 An Oracle..whose spirit possessed many Inhabitants thereabouts, and bestraught them of their wittes. 2. past participle and adj. Distracted, distraught. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > inattention > mental wandering > lack of concentration, distraction > [adjective] > distracted distract1435 bestraughta1547 amused1579 bestract1581 distracteda1634 bestraughteda1650 distrait1748 dissipated1749 a1547 Earl of Surrey tr. Virgil Fourth Bk. Aeneas (1554) iv. sig. Ci Well nere bestraught,..hys voyce lykewyse gan stycke. 1586 W. Warner Albions Eng. i. ii. 5 Till shee as one bestrought Did crie. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 459 His wits were bestraught. 1642 T. Taylor God's Judgem. i. i. vii. 14 Like a man bestraught he ranne after them. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa VII. lxxxviii. 326 I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < v.adj.a1547
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