单词 | shadowed |
释义 | shadowedadj. 1. Protected from light and heat; furnished with shade. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shade or abounding in shade shadowy1398 shadowed1400 umbrous1480 shadowish1530 shadeful1563 shadowous1585 shady1589 umbrageous1622 shaded1635 swaly1820 adumbral1855 umbraged1890 1400 tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. lviii. 79 Wyn..þat growys in playn and moyst valeyes, and stedys shadwyd. 1526 Grete Herball cxxxiii. sig. Hvv/2 Candelacia..groweth in shadowed & humours places. 1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. xlii. 277 Pimpernell..craueth a moist and shadowed ground. 1713 Countess of Winchilsea Misc. Poems 27 A Shepherd seeking with his Lass, To shun the Heat of Day; Was seated on the shadow'd Grass. 1857 C. Kingsley Two Years Ago III. ii. 48 That peak is four miles from us now; and yet the shadowed cliffs at its foot seem double that distance. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > charge: device on shield > [adjective] > drawn faintly or traced shadowed1486 umbrated1486 umbrate1572 1486 Bk. St. Albans, Her. c viij He berith of golde with a mylneris cros umbratid or shadowyd. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Ombré, vmbred, or shadowed; (a tearme of Blason). 3. Obscured or darkened by shadow or shadows. Also transferred and figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > darkness or gloom > [adjective] > dim, dark, or obscure > darkened or obscured cestreda1300 withschadowid1398 yshadewedc1400 obscuredc1485 obfuscatec1487 obscuratea1550 obnubilate1575 shadowed1600 overclouded1603 obfuscated1789 obnubilated1939 1600 W. Shakespeare Merchant of Venice ii. i. 2 Mislike me not for my complexion, The shadowed liuerie of the burnisht sunne. View more context for this quotation 1729 R. Savage Wanderer iii. 290 Winter more nitrous chills the shadow'd sky. 1825 H. W. Longfellow Burial Minnisink i On sunny slope and beechen swell, The shadowed light of evening fell. 1869 A. J. Evans Vashti xxv. 332 He scrutinized the sadly sharpened and shadowed features. 1908 A. Shield Henry Stuart Pref. The quiet shadowed story of the last Stuart prince. 4. Of a portion of a visible object or scene: Lying in shadow or shade. (Chiefly with implied reference to artistic representation.) ΘΚΠ the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > intercepting or cutting off of light > [adjective] > casting a shadow > overshadowed > lying in shadow shadowed1657 1657 G. Thornley tr. Longus Daphnis & Chloe 171 The shadowed beauty of the ripened grapes. 1778 J. Reynolds Disc. Royal Acad. (1779) viii. 19 You must oppose a light ground to the shadowed side of your Figure. 1830 in Builder 9 Jan. (1864) 22/3 [Fuseli:] ‘Don't say shadowed, it is incorrect’. ‘Shaded, then, sir?’ ‘Yes. I know Sir Joshua uses “shadowed”; but it is not right.’ 1879 Linton Hints Wood Engraving 28 The shadowed face of the boy,..and it may be the level sky, are engraved in regular lines. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > colour > change of colour > [adjective] > merging or gradating shadowed1639 shaded1710 ombré1918 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric of specific colour > [adjective] motleyc1380 varianta1400 shadowed1639 mixture1784 corbeau1810 Lovat1895 tone-on-tone1939 1639 in F. P. Verney & M. M. Verney Mem. Verney Family 17th Cent. (1907) I. 154 Some shadoede sattine ribbinge. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > invisibility > [adjective] > indistinct dimc1000 blinda1398 undistingued1398 obscure?a1450 undistinct1495 shadowed1588 undistinguishable1600 shady1626 blear1637 filmed1637 indistinguishable1642 crepusculous1646 adumbrated1650 oblite1650 faint1660 monogrammous1678 blurred1701 faintish1712 wispya1717 adumbrant1727 muzzy1744 indistinct1764 fuzzy1778 misty1797 shadowy1797 undistinguished1814 woolly1815 vague1822 furzy1825 mystified1833 slurred1843 feeble1860 smudginga1861 filmy1864 smudgy1865 blurry1884 slurry1937 society > communication > writing > written text > [adjective] > faintly written, through semi-opaque medium shadowed1588 1588 W. Kempe Educ. Children F 3 b The Maister shall teach his Schollar to write by practise of drawing the Pen upon the figures of shadowed letters. 7. a. Indicated obscurely, or by symbol or type; disguised, veiled. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > keeping from knowledge > [adjective] > obscure cestreda1300 dimc1350 obfuscatec1487 dark1532 veiled1586 offuscate1603 shadowed1630 uncheckable1742 Nacht und Nebel1947 1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 44 Whether this proceeded from any vertue of his, whereof he gaue some shadowed tokens. 1726 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey IV. xix. 626 A visionary thought I'll now relate, Illustrate, if you know, the shadow'd fate. 1850 Ld. Tennyson In Memoriam xxxiii. 52 Leave thou thy sister when she prays, Her early Heaven, her happy views; Nor thou with shadow'd hint confuse A life that leads melodious days. View more context for this quotation ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > means of concealment > [adjective] > adopted as disguise shadowed1615 1615 R. Brathwait Strappado 173 I know your place and haue an ayme, To shewe your merits in a shadow'd name. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [adjective] > unsubstantial or merely apparent shadowy1374 phantom?c1450 shadowish1561 dreamish1563 fleshlessa1592 dreamya1594 shadowed1597 unreal1605 phantasmatic1607 dreamlike1615 umbratilous1637 phantasmatical1642 umbratile1647 moonshine1668 phantomical1687 visionary1697 faerie1767 filmlike1804 phantasmal1805 spectral1816 moonshiny1821 phantomatica1834 parheliacal1852 phantomic1878 translunar1927 celluloid1928 1597 T. Middleton Wisdome of Solomon Paraphr. ix. sig. L4 What were it to be shadow of a king? A vanity: to weare a shadow'd crowne? 9. Followed by a ‘shadow’ or spy, kept under observation. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > progressive motion > order of movement > following behind > [adjective] > followed closely shadowed1889 the mind > attention and judgement > enquiry > investigation, inspection > secret observation, spying > procedures used in spying > [adjective] > followed by a shadow shadowed1889 1889 Daily News 12 Oct. 2/1 At last the shadowed man seized his opportunity, and slipped into the Irish mail unobserved. 10. Microscopy. Subjected to the process of shadow-casting n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > optical skills and techniques > [adjective] > shadow-casting shadow-cast1944 shadowed1944 1944 Jrnl. Appl. Physics 15 714/2 Photographing and measuring the lengths of the shadowed areas thus formed on the preparation. 1949 Proc. Soc. Exper. Biol. & Med. 71 80/1 (caption) Chromium shadowed preparation of the same slide. 1973 P. J. Goodhew Specimen Preparation in Materials Sci. v. 151 If a high resolution is required then the grain size of the shadowed replica is important. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1913; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1400 |
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