单词 | unovercome |
释义 | unovercomeadj.n. Not overcome or surmounted; unconquered.In quot. a1382 as n.: the one who cannot be overcome.In quot. eOE: unruly, disorderly, confused. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > [adjective] > unconquered unovercomeeOE unyoldena1325 unvanquisheda1382 unscomfitedc1400 invicta1513 undaunted1513 unconquered1549 invictissimec1550 unyielden1553 unvicta1560 unconquesta1600 invicted1602 invinced1609 unreduced1612 inexpugnate1632 unrouteda1640 unstormed1695 unyielded1700 untrampled1900 eOE Épinal Gloss. (1974) 29 Indigestae, unofaercumenrae [eOE Corpus Gloss. unobercumenre; L. contexui indigestae historiae inextricabilem cratem.]. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Judith Prol. 16 Þe vnouercomen of alle men she ouercam [L. ut invictum omnibus hominibus vinceret], & þe vnouerpassable she ouerpassede. R. Misyn tr. R. Rolle Mending of Life 123 Truly þen is luf vnouercomyn qwhen with no nodyr desyr it may be ouercomyn. c1480 (a1400) St. Lawrence 374 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 412 Thane decius..þame commawndit..to dyng hym fast. bot vnourcumyne he can ay last. ?1520 A. Barclay tr. Sallust Cron. Warre agaynst Iugurth xix. f. 29 Ye were vnouercome of your ennemies, maysters, and emperours, ouer the moost part of the world. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 653 Though now they lead me bound, yet doe I remaine free vnouercome. ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xvi. 92 O would to Jove..That not..any one of all the Greeks..might live unovercome. ?1623 O. Felltham Resolues xv. 48 What peace can I expect within mee, while these Rebels rest vnouercome? 1846 ‘Proteus’ Social Infl. III. v. xvii. 259 Retreated to the bed, but unovercome by the horrors of the situation, she stood upright. 1871 Eng. Mechanic & World of Sci. 8 Sept. 617/3 The earth's attraction is unovercome by counter-attraction. 1914 A. Adler in Urologic & Cutaneous Rev. 2 285 His old fear of and disinclination towards women..remained unovercome but not unalterable. 1967 Time 6 Jan. 80/3 A West Berlin TV station produced a three-hour documentary series on the country's efforts to stamp out..West Germany's ‘unovercome’ Nazi past. 2001 Y. Mamontov & M. Willander High-dimensional Nonlinear Diffusion Stochastic Processes 252 Associated with still unovercome difficulties with high-density fluids and multiparticle phenomena. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.n.eOE |
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