sprinkledadj.n.

Brit.

/ˈsprɪŋk(ə)ld/, U.S.

/ˈsprɪŋkəld/

Forms: see sprinkle v.² and -ed suffix¹; also Middle English sprynk-kyld.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sprinkle v.², -ed suffix¹.

Etymology: < sprinkle v.² + -ed suffix¹.With quot. a1382 at sense A. 1a perhaps compare Middle Low German sprinkelt , German gesprenkelt (late 15th cent. or earlier), and also (with different suffix) Middle Low German sprinkelicht , Middle High German sprinkeleht , sprenkeleht , and further Dutch sprenkelachtich , Middle Low German sprinkelachtich , all in sense ‘speckled’. With this use compare later sprinkle n.¹ 2.

A. adj.

a. Of a surface, object, etc.: speckled or splashed with small drops, particles, or amounts of something (frequently poetic). Also with preceding noun indicating the substance or items sprinkled. Cf. sprinkle v.² 2a(a).In quot. a1382: (in passive) marked with small specks or spots.dew-sprinkled, flower-sprinkled, snow-sprinkled, etc. : see the first element.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled > sprinkled with something

besprentc1368

sprinkleda1382

sparpled1609

parsemé1814

a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxi. 12 See all þe maleȝ..varye & sprynk-kyld [printed sprynkyld; L. respersos] & spottyd.

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 3^v Shee..by and by dooth spred A payre of liuely olde hartes hornes vppon his sprincled head.

1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. H3 Flowres varietie With sundrie colours paints the sprinckled lay.

1600 Heroicall Aduentures Knight of Sea xviii. 173 The bloud-sprinkled Idol of Mettath Agorah.

1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened ii. ix. 317 The Book lying upon the sprinkled Altar was also sprinkled with blood.

1698 A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 2) ii. iii. 181 With foul gore the sprinkled Pavement stain'd.

1753 J. Elphinston tr. L. Racine Religion iii. 57 Of all the guilty houses doom'd to fall, Be no one spar'd without a sprinkled wall.

1838 E. Flagg Far West I. xviii. 199 The storm had passed away... The deer was rising from his sprinkled lair.

1850 Earthen Vessel 6 217/2 Some think the little sprinkled face Must be the subject of God's grace.

1917 T. S. Eliot Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock in Prufrock & Other Observ. 14 After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets.

1975 L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles viii. 71 A sweet bun made of cinnamon-sprinkled dough.

2009 S. Turner Amber Waves & Undertow ix. 148 It takes at least three, or more commonly, four years for sprinkled ground to be ready for potatoes again.

b. Christian Church. Of a person: baptized by having water sprinkled on the head, rather than by immersion. Cf. sprinkle v.² 5.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > by sprinkling > [adjective]

sprinkled1645

unsprinkled1735

1645 H. Denne Antichrist Vnmasked 18 His sprinkled Infants are not yet cleansed, but the guilt of sinne remaineth on them.

1658 G. Fox Papists Strengths, Princ. & Doctr. 29 Your children are sprinkled Papists and Protestants.

1793 J. Martin Serm. Char. of Christ vi. 160 What beginnings of spiritual life does the sprinkled child enjoy?

1838 I. Robords Convert's Guide First Princ. vi. 204 All Baptist churches do baptize all sprinkled Christians that join them.

1867 Baptist Mag. Mar. 156/2 The ceremony performed on the sprinkled infant confers no benefit till he is old enough to ratify it ex animo.

1908 E. Y. Mullins Axioms Relig. xv. 245 The announcement that all Baptist churches had decided to accept sprinkled persons as members would doubtless create a momentary excitement.

2013 J. D. Trent Saffron Cross iv. 67 We tended to be immersion elitists who thought ourselves freer and better than our sprinkled Methodist counterparts.

c. Bookbinding. Of a book edge: having a decorative speckled pattern of one or more colours. Cf. sprinkle v.² 2b(b).

ΚΠ

1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 520 Mottled calf binding, with a broad border of gold on the sides, and red or green sprinkled edges to the leaves.

1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 130 Sprinkled edges, cut edges of books are sometimes finely sprinkled with colour to prevent them getting soiled.

1912 Standard (London) 6 Feb. 5/6 Strong Red Cloth Gilt, with sprinkled edges, each volume about 450 pp.

1984 J. C. Gerber in S. de Saussure Davis & P. D. Beidler Mythologizing Mark Twain 10 Gold and sprinkled edges, half-calf and half-morocco bindings, were available to those who were willing to pay a higher tariff.

2016 D. L. Weaver-Zercher Martyrs Mirror viii. 185 Issuing books with sprinkled edges was not unique to the Mennonite Publishing House.

a. Of a substance: dispersed in small drops or particles; lightly scattered or strewn. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. sprinkle v.² 1a.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > [adjective]

sprinkled1557

spray1826

the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled

snewed1300

sprengeda1382

strinkledc1440

sprinkled1557

spattered1647

insprinkled1671

insperged1683

shaken1725

spluttery1866

1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 98 In stede of smoke a sighing breath: with sparkes of sprinkled teares.

1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vii. 129 As puluer'd flints [1632 lime of flints; L. silices soluti], infurnest vnder ground, By sprinkled water fire conceiue.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 132 With sprinkl'd Water first the City choak.

1709 J. Rowe tr. Sallust Historian 211 Strewing the Floor and Every Thing round with Sprinkled Saffron.

1770 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 5) x. 249 Take brown-red,..mix it up with gum tragacanth to the consistence of a paste, and lay it on the glass, over the sprinkled colours.

1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 279 I was just beginning to stifle with the fumes of conservatory flowers and sprinkled essences.

1862 B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. (1866) 31 The sprinkled drops of moonshine flashed.

1925 Illustr. London News 24 Apr. 716/2 A few sprinkled drops of Sanitas will render those difficult odd corners..clean and germ-free.

a1972 E. Pound Coll. Early Poems (1976) 249 How from chaos The God outwrought the sprinkled dust of stars.

2015 US Official News (Nexis) 24 June Embellished with marbled paper and sprinkled gold leaf.

b. In extended use: dispersed or scattered as if by sprinkling. Cf. sprinkle v.² 1b.

ΚΠ

1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G2^v With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest.

1646 H. More Cupids Conflict 8 in Democritus Platonissans So Natures carelesse pencill..With sprinkled starres hath spattered the Night.

1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii. 76 Some sprinkled Freckles on his Face were seen.

1779 H. Walpole Let. 14 Jan. (1904) X. 363 My menus plaisirs, a few sprinkled visits of charity from a few friends that remained in town.

1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 309/1 We saw the smoke from the sprinkled cottages.

1855 R. Browning Cleon in Men & Women II. 171 The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea.

1955 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 11 Oct. 4 a/1 Easy-to-knit house boots..can be prettied up by using three bright, contrasting wools to embroider the sprinkled flowers.

1987 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 1 Mar. f2/1 Appliqued lace, sprinkled pearls and sequins covered the Victorian style hat.

2002 M. Martínez in L. A. Ramos-García State Latino Theater in U.S. ii. 26 I was kindly reproached by a movie producer for the play's use of a few sprinkled bilingual/Spanish phrases.

B. n.

With the and plural agreement. Christian Church. People who have been baptized by having water sprinkled on the head, rather than by immersion. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1650 P. Chamberlen Master Bakewells Sea Absurdities 3 Then you Tautologize and will sound thus in plain English, Whether sprinkling the Sprinkled be of God or Man?

1772 A. M. Toplady More Work Mr. J. Wesley 22 The Elect, the Sprinkled, and the Sanctify'd, are made to obey the Commandments of God.

1782 W. Cowper Charity in Poems 210 Relenting forms would lose their pow'r or cease, And ev'n the dipt and sprinkled, live in peace.

1822 A. Campbell Deb. Christian Baptism (ed. 2) 178 The sprinkled are thereby bound to become members of their respective sects.

1838 J. Foreman Believers' Baptism 75 Neither is there any covenant to which..the sprinkled can with any divine authority be referred as a covenantee.

2008 M. E. Marty Baptism: User's Guide ix. 155 It is a reminder to the sprinkled and blessed to put their baptism once more to use.

Compounds

† sprinkled wainscot n. Obsolete rare a dusky variety of the common wainscot, Mythimna pallens, a noctuid moth having pale, buff forewings and found throughout Europe, North Africa, and much of Asia.

ΚΠ

1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 88 The Sprinkled Wainscot (Leucania suffusa) appears in June.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	sprinkled
释义	sprinkledadj.n. Brit. /ˈsprɪŋk(ə)ld/, U.S. /ˈsprɪŋkəld/ Forms: see sprinkle v.² and -ed suffix¹; also Middle English sprynk-kyld. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: sprinkle v.², -ed suffix¹. Etymology: < sprinkle v.² + -ed suffix¹.With quot. a1382 at sense A. 1a perhaps compare Middle Low German sprinkelt , German gesprenkelt (late 15th cent. or earlier), and also (with different suffix) Middle Low German sprinkelicht , Middle High German sprinkeleht , sprenkeleht , and further Dutch sprenkelachtich , Middle Low German sprinkelachtich , all in sense ‘speckled’. With this use compare later sprinkle n.¹ 2. A. adj. 1. a. Of a surface, object, etc.: speckled or splashed with small drops, particles, or amounts of something (frequently poetic). Also with preceding noun indicating the substance or items sprinkled. Cf. sprinkle v.² 2a(a).In quot. a1382: (in passive) marked with small specks or spots.dew-sprinkled, flower-sprinkled, snow-sprinkled, etc. : see the first element. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled > sprinkled with something besprentc1368 sprinkleda1382 sparpled1609 parsemé1814 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xxxi. 12 See all þe maleȝ..varye & sprynk-kyld [printed sprynkyld; L. respersos] & spottyd. 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis iii. f. 3^v Shee..by and by dooth spred A payre of liuely olde hartes hornes vppon his sprincled head. 1591 E. Spenser Virgil's Gnat in Complaints sig. H3 Flowres varietie With sundrie colours paints the sprinckled lay. 1600 Heroicall Aduentures Knight of Sea xviii. 173 The bloud-sprinkled Idol of Mettath Agorah. 1655 S. Rutherford Covenant of Life Opened ii. ix. 317 The Book lying upon the sprinkled Altar was also sprinkled with blood. 1698 A. Tooke tr. F. Pomey Pantheon (ed. 2) ii. iii. 181 With foul gore the sprinkled Pavement stain'd. 1753 J. Elphinston tr. L. Racine Religion iii. 57 Of all the guilty houses doom'd to fall, Be no one spar'd without a sprinkled wall. 1838 E. Flagg Far West I. xviii. 199 The storm had passed away... The deer was rising from his sprinkled lair. 1850 Earthen Vessel 6 217/2 Some think the little sprinkled face Must be the subject of God's grace. 1917 T. S. Eliot Love Song J. Alfred Prufrock in Prufrock & Other Observ. 14 After the sunsets and the dooryards and the sprinkled streets. 1975 L. Perl Slumps, Grunts, & Snickerdoodles viii. 71 A sweet bun made of cinnamon-sprinkled dough. 2009 S. Turner Amber Waves & Undertow ix. 148 It takes at least three, or more commonly, four years for sprinkled ground to be ready for potatoes again. b. Christian Church. Of a person: baptized by having water sprinkled on the head, rather than by immersion. Cf. sprinkle v.² 5. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > kinds of baptism > by sprinkling > [adjective] sprinkled1645 unsprinkled1735 1645 H. Denne Antichrist Vnmasked 18 His sprinkled Infants are not yet cleansed, but the guilt of sinne remaineth on them. 1658 G. Fox Papists Strengths, Princ. & Doctr. 29 Your children are sprinkled Papists and Protestants. 1793 J. Martin Serm. Char. of Christ vi. 160 What beginnings of spiritual life does the sprinkled child enjoy? 1838 I. Robords Convert's Guide First Princ. vi. 204 All Baptist churches do baptize all sprinkled Christians that join them. 1867 Baptist Mag. Mar. 156/2 The ceremony performed on the sprinkled infant confers no benefit till he is old enough to ratify it ex animo. 1908 E. Y. Mullins Axioms Relig. xv. 245 The announcement that all Baptist churches had decided to accept sprinkled persons as members would doubtless create a momentary excitement. 2013 J. D. Trent Saffron Cross iv. 67 We tended to be immersion elitists who thought ourselves freer and better than our sprinkled Methodist counterparts. c. Bookbinding. Of a book edge: having a decorative speckled pattern of one or more colours. Cf. sprinkle v.² 2b(b). ΚΠ 1824 T. F. Dibdin Libr. Compan. 520 Mottled calf binding, with a broad border of gold on the sides, and red or green sprinkled edges to the leaves. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 130 Sprinkled edges, cut edges of books are sometimes finely sprinkled with colour to prevent them getting soiled. 1912 Standard (London) 6 Feb. 5/6 Strong Red Cloth Gilt, with sprinkled edges, each volume about 450 pp. 1984 J. C. Gerber in S. de Saussure Davis & P. D. Beidler Mythologizing Mark Twain 10 Gold and sprinkled edges, half-calf and half-morocco bindings, were available to those who were willing to pay a higher tariff. 2016 D. L. Weaver-Zercher Martyrs Mirror viii. 185 Issuing books with sprinkled edges was not unique to the Mennonite Publishing House. 2. a. Of a substance: dispersed in small drops or particles; lightly scattered or strewn. Also in figurative contexts. Cf. sprinkle v.² 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > liquid > liquid flow > action or process of sprinkling > [adjective] sprinkled1557 spray1826 the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being scattered or dispersed > [adjective] > sprinkled snewed1300 sprengeda1382 strinkledc1440 sprinkled1557 spattered1647 insprinkled1671 insperged1683 shaken1725 spluttery1866 1557 Earl of Surrey et al. Songes & Sonettes (new ed.) f. 98 In stede of smoke a sighing breath: with sparkes of sprinkled teares. 1626 G. Sandys tr. Ovid Metamorphosis vii. 129 As puluer'd flints [1632 lime of flints; L. silices soluti], infurnest vnder ground, By sprinkled water fire conceiue. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 132 With sprinkl'd Water first the City choak. View more context for this quotation 1709 J. Rowe tr. Sallust Historian 211 Strewing the Floor and Every Thing round with Sprinkled Saffron. 1770 G. Smith tr. Laboratory (ed. 5) x. 249 Take brown-red,..mix it up with gum tragacanth to the consistence of a paste, and lay it on the glass, over the sprinkled colours. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. xv. 279 I was just beginning to stifle with the fumes of conservatory flowers and sprinkled essences. 1862 B. Taylor Poet's Jrnl. (1866) 31 The sprinkled drops of moonshine flashed. 1925 Illustr. London News 24 Apr. 716/2 A few sprinkled drops of Sanitas will render those difficult odd corners..clean and germ-free. a1972 E. Pound Coll. Early Poems (1976) 249 How from chaos The God outwrought the sprinkled dust of stars. 2015 US Official News (Nexis) 24 June Embellished with marbled paper and sprinkled gold leaf. b. In extended use: dispersed or scattered as if by sprinkling. Cf. sprinkle v.² 1b. ΚΠ 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. vii. sig. G2^v With sprincled pearle, and gold full richly drest. 1646 H. More Cupids Conflict 8 in Democritus Platonissans So Natures carelesse pencill..With sprinkled starres hath spattered the Night. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Palamon & Arcite iii. 76 Some sprinkled Freckles on his Face were seen. 1779 H. Walpole Let. 14 Jan. (1904) X. 363 My menus plaisirs, a few sprinkled visits of charity from a few friends that remained in town. 1828 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 309/1 We saw the smoke from the sprinkled cottages. 1855 R. Browning Cleon in Men & Women II. 171 The sprinkled isles, Lily on lily, that o'erlace the sea. 1955 Abilene (Texas) Reporter-News 11 Oct. 4 a/1 Easy-to-knit house boots..can be prettied up by using three bright, contrasting wools to embroider the sprinkled flowers. 1987 Bluefield (W. Va.) Daily Tel. 1 Mar. f2/1 Appliqued lace, sprinkled pearls and sequins covered the Victorian style hat. 2002 M. Martínez in L. A. Ramos-García State Latino Theater in U.S. ii. 26 I was kindly reproached by a movie producer for the play's use of a few sprinkled bilingual/Spanish phrases. B. n. With the and plural agreement. Christian Church. People who have been baptized by having water sprinkled on the head, rather than by immersion. Now rare. ΚΠ 1650 P. Chamberlen Master Bakewells Sea Absurdities 3 Then you Tautologize and will sound thus in plain English, Whether sprinkling the Sprinkled be of God or Man? 1772 A. M. Toplady More Work Mr. J. Wesley 22 The Elect, the Sprinkled, and the Sanctify'd, are made to obey the Commandments of God. 1782 W. Cowper Charity in Poems 210 Relenting forms would lose their pow'r or cease, And ev'n the dipt and sprinkled, live in peace. 1822 A. Campbell Deb. Christian Baptism (ed. 2) 178 The sprinkled are thereby bound to become members of their respective sects. 1838 J. Foreman Believers' Baptism 75 Neither is there any covenant to which..the sprinkled can with any divine authority be referred as a covenantee. 2008 M. E. Marty Baptism: User's Guide ix. 155 It is a reminder to the sprinkled and blessed to put their baptism once more to use. Compounds † sprinkled wainscot n. Obsolete rare a dusky variety of the common wainscot, Mythimna pallens, a noctuid moth having pale, buff forewings and found throughout Europe, North Africa, and much of Asia. ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 88 The Sprinkled Wainscot (Leucania suffusa) appears in June. 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