单词 | scanted |
释义 | scantedadj. In senses of the verb: Made scant or small, stinted, diminished, restricted, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > insufficiency > [adjective] > limited in quantity or amount narrowOE poor?c1225 scarce1297 straitc1386 feeblea1513 scant1556 niggardly1564 slender1564 limited1590 scanted1594 sparing1602 scantled1604 stinted1629 exiguous1630 unlavished1635 scanty1658 unprofuse1727 costivea1734 incopious1734 niggard1751 jimp1768 skimped1839 stingy1854 restricted1856 niggard-measured1881 the mind > possession > retaining > niggardliness or meanness > [adjective] > treated in niggardly way scanted1594 1594 C. Marlowe & T. Nashe Dido i. A 4 And euery beast the forrest doth send forth, [shall] Bequeath her young ones to our scanted foode. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ix. 67 Whilst I to this hard house..returne and force their scanted curtesie. View more context for this quotation 1641 Naunton's Fragmenta Regalia sig. F Wherein my Lord of Essex so wrought by dispisiing [sic] the number and qualitie of..Rebells that Norris was sent over with a scanted force. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Two Dreams in Poems & Ballads 112 I have no wit to shape in written rhymes A scanted tithe of this great joy they had. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < adj.1594 |
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