单词 | unresisted |
释义 | unresistedadj. 1. Not resisted; not meeting with resistance. In early use also: †irresistible (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adjective] > not hindering or encumbering > not hindered or encumbered > not opposed or resisted unresisteda1522 unwithstood1595 unopposed1625 uncrosseda1634 the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > [adjective] > resisting > resisted > able to be > not unresisteda1522 unresistable1548 irrepugnable1578 insupportable1590 unresistible1591 irresisted1596 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) ix. xiii. l. 16 A man..sa feill valȝeand ȝyng capitanys kend, Onresistit, thus down to hell sall send! 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection ii. sig. Siii Lest parauenture other heryng their infamy vnresisted, dispise their holy prechyng. 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. C3v As corne ore-growne by weedes: so heedfull feare Is almost choakt by vnresisted lust. View more context for this quotation c1595 Countess of Pembroke Psalme lxxi. 8 in Coll. Wks. (1998) II. 86 Show thy vnresisted power, Working now thy wonted will. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) ii. vi. §5 That for the spirituall good of another, a man should expose his own life, is an unresisted doctrine. 1651 R. Baxter Plain Script. Proof Infants Church-membership & Baptism Apol. 19 Our God..rather then Schism shall go unresisted, will [etc.]. 1705 J. Addison Campaign 197 To Donavert, with unresisted force, The gay victorious army bends its course. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France II. 370 Black heaths,..over which the unresisted wind sweeps. 1832 J. P. Kennedy Swallow Barn I. ii. 29 It flows with the smooth and unresisted course of a gentle stream irrigating a verdant meadow. 1878 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Eng. 18th Cent. II. v. 54 If the royal assent was refused, an invading army from France might be altogether unresisted. 1932 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 16 July 122/2 The grave terminal stage [of the disease] sets in with an unresisted streptococcal, staphylococcal, or other infection. 1986 A. Knight Mexican Revol. (1990) I. v. 329 The Orozquistas..were able to slip down from the mountains in small groups, largely unresisted. 2012 R. Cavalier in D. Clune & R. Smith From Carr to Keneally i. 3 Thereafter, the assault on local democracy was unresisted. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > thing seen > [adjective] > view or scenery > uninterrupted unresisted1603 1603 J. Florio tr. M. de Montaigne Ess. iii. iii. 498 It hath three baye-windowes, of a farre-extending, ritch and vnresisted prospect. Derivatives ˌunreˈsistedly adv. without being resisted. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > easiness > [adverb] > without opposition or resistance unresistedly1660 1660 A. Moore Compend. Hist. Turks 48 Saladine,..who, in fine, unresistedly possessed the whole Kingdom of Damasco, Arethusa excepted. 1673 R. Boyle Of Great Efficacy vi. 33 in Ess. Effluviums These passing unresistedly thorow the pores of all solid Bodies, and even Glass it self. 1845 ‘E. Warburton’ Crescent & Cross I. 351 The influence of that discipline..was now sending them unresistedly to encounter..privation in the depths of Africa. 1889 J. J. Welch Text Bk. Naval Archit. iii. 50 The purely hypothetical case of a vessel rolling unresistedly in still water. 1963 P. Ure Yeats the Playwright i. 25 Once she has made the sacrifice of the self entailed upon her by taking action at all, all other sacrifices..unresistedly ensue. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1522 |
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