单词 | abominate |
释义 | abominateadj.n. Chiefly literary. Held in abomination, detested; beastly, inhuman. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [adjective] grimlyc893 retheeOE grim971 bitterOE bremec1175 grillc1175 grimfula1240 cruel1297 sturdy1297 fiercea1300 fellc1300 boistousa1387 felonousc1386 savagea1393 bestiala1398 bremelya1400 felona1400 hetera1400 cursedc1400 wicked14.. vengeablec1430 wolvishc1430 unnatural?1473 inhuman1481 brutisha1513 cruent1524 felonish1530 mannish1530 abominate1531 lionish1549 boarish?1550 truculent?c1550 unhumanc1550 lion-like1556 beastly1558 orped1567 raw?1573 tigerish?1573 unmanlike1579 boisterous1581 savaged1583 tiger-like1587 yond1590 truculental1593 savage wild1595 tigerous1597 inhumane1598 Neronian1598 immane1599 Phalarical1602 ungentle1603 feral1604 savagious1605 fierceful1607 Dionysian1608 wolvy1611 Hunnish1625 lionly1631 tigerly1633 savage-hearted1639 brutal1641 feroce1641 ferocious1646 asperous1650 ferousa1652 wolfish1674 tiger1763 savage-fierce1770 Tartar1809 Tartarly1821 Neroic1851 tigery1859 Neronic1864 unmannish1867 inhumanitarian1947 the mind > emotion > hatred > [adjective] > that is hated yhated1297 behatec1374 odiousa1382 hateda1400 loatheda1420 abominate1531 abhorred1533 detested1552 odious1560 abominated1620 nauseated1652 1531 tr. E. Fox et al. Determinations Moste Famous Vniuersities f. 10 Such mariage is no mariage: yea that hit is to be abhorred and cursed of euerye christen man, and to be abhomynate as a greuous synne. 1594 R. Wilson Coblers Prophesie sig. E3v He is not so beastlie and abhominate, As he delights to ioy in trecherie. 1850 J. S. Blackie tr. Æschylus Lyrical Dramas I. 194 There hold the horrid feasts, Of gods abominate. 1852 C. Kingsley Andromeda 58 Grieving the eyes of their pride, abominate, doomed to their anger. B. n. That which is abominated; loathsomeness. Also occasionally: an abominated person or thing. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > loathing or detestation > [noun] wlatingc725 wlatc960 ugginga1325 uglinessc1325 loathingc1340 abominationc1350 wlatsomenessc1380 wlatingness1382 fastidie?a1425 loathsomenessc1425 ugsomenessc1450 horribility1496 detestation1526 abhorring1528 dislikingc1540 fastidiousness1541 abhorfulness1556 fulsomeness1563 execration1570 abhorment1576 detesting1591 loath?1591 abhorrence1592 abhorrency1596 dislike1597 distaste1598 disgust1611 nausea1619 oppositeness1619 nauseousness1622 detest1638 wearisomeness1642 repugnance1643 odium1645 abhorrition1649 abominate1651 nausity1654 disdain1655 repugnancy1681 degoust1716 repulsion1751 self-repugnance1852 kick1893 1651 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Signatura Rerum vi. 42 Mercury doth eagerly travel and perplex it self in the Sulphrous fire more and more, and continually laboureth to drive forth the Abominate. 1691 in E. Taylor tr. J. Behmen Theosophick Philos. To Rdr. sig. b v The first Man..became an abominate to God's Holiness. 1804 Brit. Critic Sept. 323 It abounds in such terms as, the free lubet, the abominate, self-hood, the byss and abyss, &c. &c. 1939 H. Miller Tropic of Capricorn 360 She is the lubet, the abominate and the sublimate—with a dash of hydrochloric acid, nitro-glycerine, laudanum and powdered onyx. 1982 L. S. Roudiez tr. J. Kristeva Powers of Horror iv. 111 The abominate is a response to the sacred, its exhaustion, its ending. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). abominatev. 1. transitive. To feel extreme disgust and hatred towards; to regard with intense aversion; to abhor, loathe. ΚΠ 1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas xix. 251 God shalbe iust still, and yet both nature and the workers of such thinges abhorred, and abominated before him to the bottome of hell. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. i. 16 Let this..now at last perswade all Christians, all Pagans,..forr to abominate them [sc. stage plays], as the very product of Satan, and the broode of Hell. 1644 J. Bulwer Chirologia 53 Who refuse, abhor, detest or abominate some execrable thing. 1649 J. Milton Εικονοκλαστης i. 3 A Scotch Warr, condemn'd and abominated by the whole Kingdom. 1663 Case Mary Carleton 46 I had deserved to be severely punished and abhominated by all Geetlemen [sic]. 1706 D. Defoe Jure Divino Pref. p. iii Those who Swore to him when he was King..are all Perjur'd Rebels; abominable, and to be abominated by all good Men. a1727 I. Newton Short. Chron. 1st Memory in Chronol. Anc. Kingdoms Amended (1728) 9 The Egyptians..lived only on the fruits of the earth, and abominated flesh-eaters. 1796 R. Southey Joan of Arc viii. 179 A weapon for its sure destructiveness Abominated once. 1824 W. S. Landor Imaginary Conversat. I. v. 64 I abominate and detest hangmanship. 1855 J. L. Motley Rise Dutch Republic II. iii. v. 300 Influential persons in Madrid had openly abominated the cruel form of amnesty which had been decreed. 1908 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 18 372 The persecutors believe that God not only abominates the act of the misbeliever, but will hold the persecutors guilty if they do not persecute the misbeliever. 1995 Independent on Sunday 19 Feb. (Review Suppl.) 30/4 It begs the question why the Church ever sanctioned—even sacramentalised—something it now abominates? 2. transitive. In weakened sense: to dislike strongly; to regard with great distaste. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > hatred > dislike > [verb (transitive)] mislikea1225 to like illa1350 to have no fancy with1465 mislovec1485 abominec1500 not to look ata1529 to have no will of, (also in)1548 misaffect1586 to have or take a stitch againsta1591 dislike1593 to take (a) toy to (also at)1598 disfavour1599 disgust1601 disaffect1609 mistaste1613 disrelisha1616 dispalate1630 abominate1652 disfancy1657 to have it in for1825 to have a down on1835 to sour on1862 to go off ——1877 derry1896 1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xvi. 110 I never advise to Plow thy Land so long to bring it to this, I abominate such Husbandry. 1694 M. Astell Serious Proposal to Ladies 98 Censure will refine into Friendly Admonition, all Scoffing and offensive Railleries will be abominated. 1703 tr. G. Della Casa Galateo of Manners 111 Their own snarling splenetick Dispositions..make them justly abominated by all that know them. 1753 H. Walpole Lett. (1840) II. 464 Were I to print anything with my name it should be plain Horace Walpole: Mr. is one of the Gothicisms I abominate. 1844 Knickerbocker Nov. 470 Of all articles tolerated..I most abominate boiled salt fish. 1880 ‘V. Lee’ Stud. 18th Cent. Italy iv. iii. 170 Steele..had no musical sense, and abominated operas. 1881 A. Trollope Ayala's Angel III. xlvi. 37 I do abominate a perverse young woman. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 220/1 Most New Yorkers or Chicagoans abominate the country. 1961 N. Coward Diary 12 Mar. (2000) 466 I despise and abominate theatre parties. 1990 A. S. Byatt Possession vi. 96 He abominated tea. He was a black coffee drinker. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.1531v.1597 |
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