单词 | scourged |
释义 | scourgedadj. 1. Beaten, flogged. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that has been beaten chastisedc1440 scourged1543 coiled1569 lashed1611 well-disciplined1660 flogged1836 lickeda1896 tanned1905 1543 B. Traheron tr. J. de Vigo Most Excellent Wks. Chirurg. i. ix. f. 232/2 Ye shall applye vpon the skourged place thys cerote [following]. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2264/1 In this societie of the scourged professors of Christ, was also one Iames Harris. 1693 S. Harvey in J. Dryden tr. Juvenal Satires ix. 185 Let the Great Man, whom gaping Crowds attend, Fear a scourg'd Slave. 1713 E. Young Poem on Last Day ii. 38 Now tell the scourg'd Impostor, he shall bleed! 1831 T. P. Thompson in Westm. Rev. July 267 There will always be a difference of opinion on the amount of evil between the oppressor and the oppressed, between the scourger and the scourged. 1853 O. W. Holmes Poem Amer. Med. Assoc. 47 The scourged racer. 2. Of land: Exhausted by improper cultivation. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [adjective] > exhausted worn1681 sickly1697 potato-sick1834 harvestless1868 scourged1880 turnip-sick1880 soil-sick1962 desertified1980 1880 M. Allan-Olney New Virginians I. 85 A sign of scourged land and disgraceful farming. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1543 |
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