单词 | spoiled |
释义 | spoiledadj. 1. a. Pillaged, plundered; ravaged. Obsolete or archaic. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] > despoiled spoiledc1440 ravisheda1500 pilled?1518 polled1538 rifled1563 despoiled1576 pillaged1629 plundered1639 fleeceda1800 spoliated1815 spulyied1838 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 470 Spoylyd, or spolyyd, spoliatus. 1551 T. Lever Serm. xiiii. December (new ed.) Epist. sig. A.iii For your charitable pytye of myserable spoiled people. 1598 W. Phillip tr. J. H. van Linschoten Disc. Voy. E. & W. Indies i. xcix. 191/2 For that a whole day we could see nothing els, but spoyled men set on shore. 1624 in 3rd Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1872) 32/2 Theophilus, the poor Bishop of miserable spoiled Llandaff. 1637 S. Marmion Morall Poem: Cupid & Psyche ii. iii There's not a man forsaken, Or god, for my sake, that bewayles his deare, Or bathes his spoyled bosome with a teare. b. Taken as spoil. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > robbery > spoliation or depredation > [adjective] > taken as spoil spoiled1718 spoliated1866 1718 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad IV. xvi. 612 What Grief..must Glaucus undergo, If these spoil'd Arms adorn a Grecian Foe? ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > uncovering > [adjective] > stripped or made bare > stripped of skin, husk, or bark > stripped of bark spoiledc1515 barkless1604 barked1611 disbarked1657 bark-bared1707 c1515 King's Coll. Cambr. Estimate, Tymbre: Remayneth in store of former provision ynowgh redy spoyled to perfourme all the saide Stalles and Rodelofte. 3. a. Deprived of good or effective qualities or properties by injury, disease, etc.; damaged, impaired, injured; defective. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > damage > [adjective] > damaged mangledc1400 shendedc1400 vitiate?a1475 appaired1475 wrack1487 maggleda1522 manka1522 mankeda1522 spiltc1540 massacred1590 through-galled1594 spoiled1598 flawed1608 impaired1611 damaged1771 scathed1791 waterlogged1795 spoilt1816 wrecked1818 injured1857 marred1870 buggered-up1893 messed-up1909 puckerooed1919 dinged1920 trashed1926 mucked-up1930 sheg-up1941 buggered1942 screwed-up1942 mucked-about1966 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche Chirurg. 33 How we ought to extirpate the spoylede & superfluouse fingers. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. I. iii. iii. 102 Our new Duke d'Orléans... Never yet made Admiral, and now turning the corner of his fortieth year, with spoiled blood and prospects. 1856 Brit. Alm. 94 Spoiled stamps. 1879 St. George's Hosp. Rep. 9 527 The 6 spoiled eyes were found in 3 males and 3 females. b. spoiled five n. = spoil-five n. at spoil- comb. form . ΘΚΠ society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > card game > other card games > [noun] > spoil-five spoil-five1839 spoiled five1842 twenty-fives1870 1842 C. J. Lever Jack Hinton in Dublin Univ. Mag. June 693/1 The worthy priest..was deep in a game of spoiled five with the farmer. c. Of a vote or ballot paper: rendered invalid. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > free will > choice or choosing > expression of choice by some approved method > [adjective] > of voting-paper: rendered invalid informal1841 spoiled1944 1944 Federal Reporter 2nd Ser. 138 248/1 In the election..201 [employees] cast ballots, with the result 39 unchallenged votes for United, 51 for International..7 votes were challenged spoiled, or blank. 1958 W. J. M. Mackenzie Free Elections xv. 131 Even if there is compulsory voting, this general dissent may express itself through the proportion of ‘spoiled papers’ handed in. 1958 W. J. M. Mackenzie Free Elections xv. 136 Administrative difficulties arise not over papers that are clearly ‘spoiled’ but over marginal cases. 1973 Irish Times 2 Mar. 8/1 Electorate, 37,299... Spoiled votes, 488. 1976 Guardian 17 Apr. 24/3 There was only one spoiled paper in the 94 per cent poll. d. spoiled nun, spoiled priest, a nun or priest who has repudiated her or his vocation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] > that has renounced spoiled nun1904 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > spoiled spoiled priest1904 1904 S. Joyce Dublin Diary (1962) 26 He is the spoiled priest to his finger tips. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist i. 36 He had heard his father say that she was a spoiled nun. 1951 A. Mizener Far Side of Paradise 307 The novel should do this. Show a man who is a natural idealist, a spoiled priest. 1977 Times Lit. Suppl. 13 May 593/1 Romantic wickedness (or, in O'Flaherty's own spoiled-priest phrase, ‘romantic sin’). 4. Of persons, esp. children: Injured in character by excessive indulgence, lenience, or deference. ΘΚΠ society > authority > lack of strictness > [adjective] > indulgent > over-indulged spoiled1648 overindulged1740 spoilt1816 mardy1882 society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > [adjective] > damaged morally > by excessive indulgence or deference spoiled1648 the mind > emotion > love > tenderness > foolish affection, excessive love or fondness > [adjective] > indulging or pampering > of a child: spoiled marred1620 spoiled1648 1648 H. Hexham Groot Woorden-boeck at Bedorven A spoiled child, by giving it his will too much, or by cockering him. c1779 Whitefoord Papers (1898) 166 He was..a kind of spoil'd child whom you must humour in all his ways. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed iii, in Tales Crusaders I. 55 Some of the petty resentment of a spoiled domestic. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. I. v. 619 The spoiled darling of the court and of the populace. 1884 St. James's Gaz. 9 July 6/2 Prince Victor Napoleon is, in almost every sense of the term, a spoiled child. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.c1440 |
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