单词 | unpurgeable |
释义 | unpurgeableadj. That cannot be purged (in various senses of the verb); esp. that cannot be expelled or eliminated. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > pollution or defilement > [adjective] > not purified > not able to be purified unpurgeable1662 1662 J. Chandler tr. J. B. van Helmont Oriatrike 655 These Laws are not punished with a continued unpurgeable Impurity on Posterity [L. Hæ autem leges non puniuntur continuata in posteros ineluibili impuritate], in such a manner as the opposition of that eating is. 1687 J. Dalrymple Decisions Lords of Council & Session II. 858 The Apprysing which is founded upon all the Sums, cannot make this one Sum, reaching but a proportion of the Lands Apprysed, to be unpurgable, and to carry the Right of the whole Land. 1829 in E. Bulwer Lytton Disowned II. iv. 32 The humours of their mind, like those of their body, have something corrupt and unpurgeable in them. 1891 W. Headlam tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon (1904) 52 Now in blood unpurgeable thou hast crowned thy slaughter with a victim perfect and memorable. 1892 G. C. Lorimer What I Know about Bks. 53 They have created criminals, have saturated the mind with unpurgable filthiness, and have led to unspeakable orgies and vices. 1962 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 56 678/1 The most important interplay of fear and violence was connected with the activities of quite unpurgeable armies in Italy. 2002 Daily Mail (Nexis) 24 Aug. 87 Azharuddin is in the doghouse for match manipulation but he left us with unpurgeable memories. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1662 |
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