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单词 scanted
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scantedadj.

/ˈskantɪd/
Etymology: < scant v. + -ed suffix1.
In senses of the verb: Made scant or small, stinted, diminished, restricted, etc.
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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).
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