单词 | unman |
释义 | unmann. rare between the 15th and 20th centuries. A person (usually a man) who is considered to lack certain essential characteristics or attributes of a man, such as normal human decency or compassion, or traditional masculine qualities; a person who is considered to be beneath the usual status of a man. Also: a person who has been deprived of legal rights and made an outlaw. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [noun] > subhuman man unmanOE underman1910 untermensch1964 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) xix. 189 Oft unmen secgað þæt hi unsynnige beon, ðeah ðe hi leohtlice mettas him on muð bestingon, on swilcum fæstendagum mid fræcere gyfernysse. OE Wulfstan Institutes of Polity: Duties of Bishops (Nero) (1959) 264 La, yfele gebyrede biscopum æfre, þæt hy woroldmannum for idelum gylpe cwemdon on unriht ahwar to swyðe; eac hit is þe wyrse, þe hy unmannum olæcað georne æfter hereworde. ?a1300 Maximian (Digby) l. 193 in C. Brown Eng. Lyrics 13th Cent. (1932) 98 (MED) I-tint is al mi plawe, Þat i wes woned to haue, Þe wile i wes so liȝt, Hold ich am and ounmon. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 336 Þou seidest I scholde ben holden an vn-mon. c1430 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1844) I. 12/2 Fra thin furth he..be nevir haldyn as man bot as unman. 1641 Vox Borealis sig. Cv [Old adage] Waters shall waxe, and Woods shall waine, And unman shall be Man, and Man shall be naine. 1879 G. MacDonald Sir Gibbie xxi He was on the wild hill, with miles on miles of cover! Here the unman could not catch him. 1930 C. S. Lewis Let. 15 Sept. in W. Hooper They stand Together (1979) 392 But for the idea that this unman [i.e. a corpse] may still live, it wd. not be horrible. 2000 W. I. Miller Myst. Courage (2002) xv. 234 To call someone a ‘sissy’ or a ‘pussy’ is really to create a new entity, not woman, not man, but a womanly man, an un-man. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). unmanv. 1. transitive. Originally: to remove the crew from (a vessel or fleet). Now also: to remove the crew from (any vehicle). ΚΠ 1589 Voy. W. Towrson in R. Hakluyt Princ. Navigations i. 122 We thought it not good to vnman our ships going outward. 1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice ii. 465 Vluzzali..would not vnman his Gallies for feare of greater danger, the enemy being so neere him. 1696 in London Gaz. No. 3250/1 After the Fleet has been Manned, it hath been in a great Measure Unmanned again by Desertion. 1712 R. Woodes Crusing Voy. round World 13 If we could make her a Prize, it would unman our Ships too much to send her into any Port. 1796 Ld. Nelson in Dispatches & Lett. (1846) VII. p. xxxiv If the Admiral had small Vessels, he could not venture to unman his Fleet. 1829 United Service Jrnl. Dec. 755 Discharging them gradually so as not to unman the ships. 1888 St. James's Gaz. 8 Sept. 5/2 A large reserve of trained stokers and seamen would always be available without unmanning and crippling the mercantile marine. 1914 Pacific Reporter 139 412/2 Any accident or injury to one or more of the crew to that extent tended to unman the train [etc.]. 1968 Times Herald Rec. (Middletown, N.Y.) 11 Oct. 2/3 Unmanning the vehicle after the astronauts were settled into it..would mean a delay of at least 48 hours. 2010 R. Harding Emergence of Britain's Global Naval Supremacy v. 130 Lestock reduced the complements of all his ships and completely unmanned the two most decayed 50s. 2. transitive. To deprive of the attributes of a man or human being; to make no longer a man or human being (in fact or opinion). Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > man > [verb (transitive)] > deprive of attributes of man unman1598 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie ii. vii. sig. F2v Why sower Satirist Canst thou vnman him? Here I dare insist And soothly say, he is a perfect soule. 1643 A. Tuckney Balme of Gilead 40 It is..the cruell man (saith Solomon) that troubles his owne flesh; nay the Apostle un-manneth him that hates it. 1681 R. Baxter Acct. Sherlocke vi. 212 Every Humanist that useth..gawdy fashions, is not thereby unchristened, unchurched, or unman'd. 1707 G. Hickes Two Treat. Pref. p. cxcii We cannot suppose that Infinite Goodness would bind us..to such strict unalterable Duties, as unman us in this World. 1751 R. Shirra in Remains (1850) 86 The first [sc. Ebion] ungods him; the other [sc. Marcion] unmans him. 1866 J. Macgregor Sabbath Question iii. iv. 332 The saving work of that Spirit is not to unman the man, but to restore the man whom sin has unmanned. 1884 R. Browning Family in Ferishtah's Fancies 77 I may put forth angel's plumage, once unmanned, but not before. 1921 Methodist Rev. July 538 Did that breath of inspiration unman the man, petrifying all that was human? 3. transitive. To deprive of qualities traditionally associated with men, such as courage, self-control, etc.; to cause to lose nerve, to make weak or timid. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > life > sex and gender > female > effeminacy > [verb (transitive)] effeminate1531 womanish1561 feminine1583 womanizea1586 hermaphroditize1598 unman1599 woman1611 smock1614 effeminizec1616 evirate1627 disman1628 lady1656 emolliate1802 1599 S. Daniel Musophilus in Poet. Ess. sig. Dv This skill where with you haue so cunning beene, Vnsinewes all your powres, vnmans you quite. a1616 W. Shakespeare Macbeth (1623) iii. iv. 72 What? quite vnmann'd in folly... Fie for shame. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Humane Learning in Certaine Wks. (1633) 31 Engins that did vn-man the mindes of men. 1673 E. Hickeringill Gregory 318 Impressions of fear that mollifie and unman vulgar and narrow spirits. 1716 J. Addison Drummer iii. 27 That dear Woman! the Sight of her un-mans me. 1736 A. Hill tr. Voltaire Zara v. i. 64 Tears!.. The first, which, ever, yet, unmann'd my Eyes! 1780 Mirror No. 90 This blow, for a time, unmanned me quite. 1811 Ld. Byron Euthanasia vi And women's tears, produced at will, Deceive in life, unman in death. 1847 W. H. Prescott Hist. Conquest Peru I. iii. vii. 484 For a moment, the overwhelming conviction of it unmanned him. 1883 Manch. Examiner 24 Nov. 5/1 Thirty or forty years of such treatment is enough to unman any people. 1914 Mich. Alumnus Aug. 567 He is equal to the unexpected and cannot be crushed by disaster. You cannot unman him. 2009 Calgary (Alberta) Herald (Nexis) 30 Oct. (Swerve section) 22 He assures me that, after raising two boys, no smell can unman him. 4. transitive. To reduce below the level of man in respect of moral or spiritual qualities; to degrade, brutalize. Frequently reflexive. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > morality > moral evil > moral or spiritual degeneration > degrading or impairing morally > degrade or impair morally [verb (transitive)] > deprive of human qualities > brutalize bestialize1610 unman1626 bestiate1628 embrutish1639 imbrutish1639 bebeast1640 imbrute1640 beast1646 brutify1668 brutalizea1704 embrutalize1876 1626 W. Pinke tr. J. Cameron Exam. Plausible Appearances iv. 11 Certainely man cannot strip himselfe out of all affection of religion; in the same proportion he doth that, he vnmanneth himselfe, and is at best, but a monster of nature in humane shape. 1660 tr. M. Amyraut Treat. conc. Relig. i. vii. 106 They whom barbarisme ha's unman'd in all other things. 1701 W. Wotton Hist. Rome 246 Habits of Vice unman Men's minds. 1755 Man ii. 4 Those who unman themselves, by debasing their nature..we shall call by the name of inhuman. 1823 W. Hurn Farewell Testimony 113 The drunkard unmans, and debases himself to a state shocking, and unexampled among other creatures. 1871 Methodist Q. Sept. 183 He [sc. a despot] would simply be destroying so much liberty and creating so much slavery; he would be unmanning men. a1907 R. Thomas Glad Tidings (1908) 65 Whatever unmans and dehumanizes is sin. 5. transitive. To deprive of virility; (often spec.) to emasculate or castrate physically. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > biological processes > procreation or reproduction > infertility > infertile [verb (transitive)] > castrate or spay > castrate geldc1225 lib1396 cut1465 castrate1609 delumbate1609 enervate1610 unstone1611 gliba1616 evirate1621 emasculate1623 capon1630 eunuchize1634 eunuchate1646 caponize1654 unpollux1654 eunucha1658 unman1657 dismember1697 saturnized1846 nut1916 knacker1936 1657 T. Reeve God's Plea for Nineveh 41 Sardanapalus..for his immoderate licentiousness was sirnamed the Absolute Effeaminate; as if he had been eviratus, unmanned. 1690 A. G. tr. Plutarch Of Herodotus's Malice in M. Morgan et al. tr. Plutarch Morals IV. 384 Because the Samians had sav'd the Children of the Greeks from being unmann'd [tr. 1603 from eviration]. 1709 J. Marten Gonosologium Novum i. 4 The loss of them [sc. Stones]..is the sole hindrance as to Procreation, which perfectly un-Mans him. 1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams 36 Gæa..provided Cronus..with an iron sickle, wherewith he unmanned Uranus. 2011 D. Jackson Defender of Rome (2012) v. 54 The third [thrust] caught him a glancing blow on the inner thigh that would have unmanned him if it had landed square. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > child > [verb (transitive)] > make childish unman1672 the world > people > person > child > [verb (intransitive)] > become childish re-child1606 unman1889 1672 W. Penn Spirit of Truth Vindicated 23 As he is unmanned, that is, again become a little Child. 1889 Harper's Mag. Jan. 191/2 But find where children haunt, and there unman, And with them laugh and play. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > loss > taking away > [verb (reflexive)] > deprive uncase1583 unman1694 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. Ded. p. xv Let me admonish the more Ingenious Artist to be mindful of Experience, lest peradventure he slide into the slippery Tract of an Author, so unman himself of practical Demonstration. 1833 Reg. Deb. Congr. 9 App. 45/1 A nation, consisting of ten millions of freemen, must be..unmanned of all their energies applicable to the improvement of their own condition. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OEv.1589 |
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