单词 | uncurtailed |
释义 | uncurtailedadj. (un- prefix1 2.) ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > decrease or reduction in quantity, amount, or degree > [adjective] > curtailed > not unabridged1599 uninfringed1610 uncurtailed1740 undefalcateda1745 undocked1859 1740 S. Richardson Pamela II. 21 Will you,..on your Honour, let me see them uncurtail'd, and not offer to make them away? 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Acharnians in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 25 To our share Fell some fine oxen—whole, sirs,—uncurtail'd. 1856 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. (1858) I. iv. 288 Making use of their yet uncurtailed powers of persecution. 1861 W. S. Perry Hist. Church Eng. I. iv. 171 The ancient canon law was still in force, uncurtailed by the Reformation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1921; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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