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单词 unrest
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unrestn.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈrɛst/, U.S. /ˌənˈrɛst/
Forms: see un- prefix1 and rest n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix1, rest n.1
Etymology: < un- prefix1 + rest n.1Compare, all in a similar range of senses: (i) West Frisian ûnrêst , Middle Low German unreste , Middle High German unreste ; (ii) Middle Dutch onraste (Dutch †onrast ), Middle Low German unraste (German regional (Low German) unrast ), Middle High German unraste (German Unrast ); (iii), with a second element from a different ablaut grade of the same Germanic base, Middle Dutch onruste (Dutch onrust ), Middle Low German unruste (German regional (Low German) unrust ). Compare wanrest n.
1.
a. Disharmony; disturbance, turmoil, trouble; discord, strife; (in later use esp.) disturbance or turmoil resulting from dissatisfaction or anger within a society or community, typically taking the form of public demonstrations or disorder.In quot. a1382: noise, uproar.
ΘΚΠ
society > society and the community > dissent > lack of peacefulness > [noun]
unfritheOE
unpeacea1325
unresta1382
hurling1387
tumult1412
hurlc1440
hurly-burlyc1440
unquietness?c1450
unpeaceableness?c1475
estoure1481
broilery1521
broiling1523
turmoil1526
brulyie1531
unquiet1551
troublesomeness1561
disrest1567
turbulence1598
hurly1600
turbulency1607
inquieta1684
brulyiement1718
agitation1769
dispeace1825
fudder1871
push and shove1895
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun]
winOE
torpelness?c1225
disturbance1297
workc1325
disturblingc1330
farec1330
frapec1330
disturbing1340
troublingc1340
blunderc1375
unresta1382
hurling1387
perturbationc1400
turbationc1400
rumblec1405
roara1413
rumourc1425
sturblance1435
troublec1435
stroublance1439
hurlc1440
hurly-burlyc1440
ruffling1440
stourc1440
rumblingc1450
sturbancec1450
unquietness?c1450
conturbationc1470
ruption1483
stir1487
wanrufe?a1505
rangat?a1513
business1514
turmoil1526
blommera1529
blunderinga1529
disturbation1529
bruyllie1535
garboil1543
bruslery1546
agitation1547
frayment1549
turmoiling1550
whirl1552
confusion1555
troublesomeness1561
rule1567
rummage1575
rabble1579
tumult1580
hurlement1585
rabblement1590
disturb1595
welter1596
coil1599
hurly1600
hurry1600
commotion1616
remotion1622
obturbation1623
stirrance1623
tumultuation1631
commoving1647
roiling1647
spudder1650
suffle1650
dissettlement1654
perturbancy1654
fermentationa1661
dissettledness1664
ferment1672
roil1690
hurry-scurry1753
vortex1761
rumpus1768
widdle1789
gilravagea1796
potheration1797
moil1824
festerment1833
burly1835
fidge1886
static1923
comess1944
frammis1946
bassa-bassa1956
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1965) Judith xiv. 9 Þei þat weren comyng in þe tabernacle..makinge noise for ende to areren hym, bi craft casten vnreste [L. inquietudinem].
a1425 Adam & Eve (Wheatley) in M. Day Wheatley MS (1921) 79 Vnreste [L. inimicitias] I schal put bitwene þee and þe womman.
?c1450 in G. J. Aungier Hist. & Antiq. Syon Monastery (1840) 385 Nor any schal make any noyse there [sc. in the dortour] of unreste aboute makyng of ther beddes.
1485 Croniclis of Englonde (St. Albans) vi. sig. q ijv It wos eu[er] the occasion of moch vnrest & bataill.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. lxxxii Which tourned hym to great dishonoure. And his Lordes to great vnrest.
1608 T. Milles Custumers Alphabet & Primer sig. Dv They haue beene occasions of much vnrest and disorders in former times.
1845 Baptist Rec. June 362 A church..whose busy emissaries at this moment fill every part of Europe with agitation and unrest.
1873 J. A. Symonds Stud. Greek Poets i. 18 To the anarchy and unrest of transition succeeds the demand for constitutional order.
1901 Times of India 16 Feb. 10/3 (headline) Student unrest in Russia. Many exiled to the east.
1924 F. E. Haynes Social Politics U.S. xiv. 332 Labor unrest, illustrated vividly by the coal and steel strikes of 1919, spread rapidly.
1946 N.Y. Times 11 Aug. iii. 4/4 (headline) Price unrest slows market's activities.
1986 L. Garfield December Rose vi. 39 It was their sworn duty to hunt down and destroy the assassins, the bomb-throwers, the stirrers-up of unrest in the streets.
2012 Wall St. Jrnl. 18 Sept. a13/1 The unrest started on Aug. 10 when 3,000 rock drillers..went on strike.
b. An instance or episode of such disturbance; an outbreak of public disorder.
ΚΠ
1477 Earl Rivers tr. Dictes or Sayengis Philosophhres (Caxton) (1877) lf. 17 Of thought cometh the wakyngis and vnrestis.
1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid xiii. ii. 74 Be all wais noysum and onrestis, And all that horribill was.
1598 G. Chapman tr. Homer Seauen Bks. Iliades iv. 72 Both Goddesses..contriuing still, afflicted Troys vnrests.
1628 G. Wither Britain's Remembrancer vi. 1957 Nor, thereby, many other mens unrests Occasion they alone.
1698 J. Pechey Compl. Midwife's Pract. Enlarged (ed. 5) 347 Such unrests as these ought not to enter into the breast of a Midwife; for, her mind ought to be free and at peace.
1870 T. Tilton in E. B. Browning Last Poems 59 It gave illumination to her moral and religious nature;..giving her the power to incite other souls to yearnings like her own, to fill them with vague unrests and aspirations for a higher life.
1920 New Amer. Church Monthly June 349 And as the Catholic conviction grows upon us, we find in it a standpoint from which ever and ever clearer the pathetic needs and unrests and ignorances of our time can be gauged.
1970 Art Educ. 23 iii. 27 The 20th century has brought about many changes, the greatest of which has occurred in the student's role in education. The unrests, protests, revolts, marches, and sit-ins are all segments of today's scene.
1994 Financial Times 30 Mar. 21/6 Damned nuisance, these civil unrests. A colleague has just arrived in Johannesburg to cover the elections.
2009 Washington Times (Nexis) 6 Aug. B1 The ministry also did not act as it was expected in the recent unrests.
2. The state or fact of not being at peace, at ease, or comfortable; unease; discomfort; distress; upset. Also: an instance of this.
ΚΠ
c1390 (c1300) MS Vernon Homilies in Archiv f. das Studium der Neueren Sprachen (1877) 57 250 Hit hedde him do wiþ pyne and vn reste and vn Ro.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. vii. xl. 388 In þe body half is heuynesse and slownesse, indigestioun.., vnreste of wakynge, drede in slepinge.
a1413 (c1385) G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde (Pierpont Morgan) (1882) iv. l. 879 That cause is of þis sorwe and þis vnreste.
?a1425 tr. Guy de Chauliac Grande Chirurgie (N.Y. Acad. Med.:Wallner) ii. 51 (MED) No farmacous þing oweþ to be medled with mete; þer is engendred forsoþ vnreste & Akyng.
a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) cxviii. §165. 435 (MED) Charite puttis away all lettyngis and vnrest of thoght.
1541 R. Whitford Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges xii. f. 15v Vnrest of mynde cummeth of opinion or suspicion.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham sig. V.iiii Furth streamde the teares, recordes of his vnrest.
a1627 W. Sclater Serm. Experimentall (1638) 50 A sweet soliloquie of David with his soul, checking it..for the disquiet, and unrest it passionately had plunged it self into.
1685 J. Dryden tr. Lucretius Against Fear of Death in Sylvæ 76 If the foolish race of man..Cou'd find as well the cause of this unrest, And all this burden lodg'd within the breast.
1748 J. Thomson Castle of Indolence i. vi Whate'er smack'd of noyance, or unrest, Was far, far off expelled.
1796 Oracle & Public Advertiser 12 July O! love, must I for ever feel unrest?
1816 Ld. Byron Parisina v, in Siege of Corinth 66 And mutters she in her unrest A name.
1849 F. W. Robertson Serm. (1866) 1st Ser. i. 10 The unrest and the agony that lie hid in the heart of man.
1900 Freeman's Jrnl. (Dublin) 11 Jan. 2/7 I firmly believe that what I may call feverish unrest is highly prejudicial to the interests of art.
1974 R. L. Hill Nails xxii. 209 With Christmas Joe's resolve grew deeper, a core of sharp unrest gnawing at him daily, a vague dissatisfaction that grew and grew.
2006 S. Kenyon Dark Side of Moon xi. 186 He turned his back to her as if nothing had happened. But even so she could sense his unrest.

Phrases

Abbot of Unrest n. Scottish rare (historical in later use) a person chosen to preside over certain popular games and festivities; cf. Abbot (of) Unreason at unreason n. Phrases, Abbot of Misrule, variant of Lord of Misrule n. at misrule n. 4.
ΚΠ
1472 in W. Chambers Charters Burgh Peebles (1872) 167 The quhilk day was mad burges John Necoll, and hys fredom gewyn to John Morchowson abbot of vnrest in that tym.
1903 R. Renwick Peebles iv. 24 At other times the amusements of the people were attended to, as in 1472 when the ‘Abbot of Unrest’, and in 1555 when ‘my lord Robene Hude’, obtained donations.
1947 C. W. Gardiner Lament for Strings 53 The abbot of unrest walks humbly In our deserted streets Dropping three useless coins Into the extended cap Of the organ-grinding hero.
2005 R. Black Gaelic Otherworld 583 The mock abbots of the Scottish burghs—the Abbot of Unreason in Inverness, for example, or the Abbot of Unrest in Peebles.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

unrestv.

Brit. /(ˌ)ʌnˈrɛst/, U.S. /ˌənˈrɛst/
Forms: see un- prefix2 and rest v.1
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: un- prefix2, rest v.1
Etymology: < un- prefix2 + rest v.1 Compare unrest n.Apparently re-formed in the late 20th cent.
rare in later use.
transitive. To disturb; †to trouble (obsolete).
ΘΚΠ
the mind > emotion > suffering > state of being upset or perturbed > upset or perturb [verb (transitive)]
to-wendc893
mingeOE
dreveOE
angerc1175
sturb?c1225
worec1225
troublec1230
sturble1303
disturbc1305
movea1325
disturblec1330
drubblea1340
drovec1350
distroublec1369
tempestc1374
outsturba1382
unresta1382
stroublec1384
unquietc1384
conturb1393
mismaya1400
unquemea1400
uneasec1400
discomfita1425
smite?a1425
perturbc1425
pertrouble?1435
inquiet1486
toss1526
alter1529
disquiet1530
turmoil1530
perturbate1533
broil1548
mis-set?1553
shake1567
parbruilyiec1586
agitate1587
roil1590
transpose1594
discompose1603
harrow1609
hurry1611
obturb1623
shog1636
untune1638
alarm1649
disorder1655
begruntlea1670
pother1692
disconcert1695
ruffle1701
tempestuate1702
rough1777
caddle1781
to put out1796
upset1805
discomfort1806
start1821
faze1830
bother1832
to put aback1833
to put about1843
raft1844
queer1845
rattle1865
to turn over1865
untranquillize1874
hack1881
rock1881
to shake up1884
to put off1909
to go (also pass) through a phase1913
to weird out1970
a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1963) 1 Kings xxvi. 14 Who art þou þat criest, & vnrestist [L. inquietas] þe kyng?
tr. Palladius De re Rustica (Duke Humfrey) (1896) vi. l. 174 Good is hem to sle, ffor they the swarm vnrestith.
a1450 St. Katherine (Richardson 44) (1884) 49 A Cyte..whom noon aduersite troubleth..ne noon heuynesse vnresteth.
1541 R. Whitford Dyuers Holy Instrucyons & Teachynges xii. f. 14v Sone after: the mynde wyl be vnrested withall, and seke for remedy.
1650 E. Marbury Brief Comm. Obadiah 23 The present prosperity of the wicked..hath much disquieted very godly persons; David confesseth it to have unrested him.
1996 Fiber Optics Weekly Update 28 June 10/1 Cables can be added without unresting previously-installed cables.
2012 K. Bertone Art of Visit iv. 109 Do they toss the football from the kitchen out the window in an attempt to unrest the sleeping dog on the lawn?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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