单词 | unreversed |
释义 | unreversedadj. Not reversed (in various senses); (in early use) esp. (of a law, judgement, etc.) not revoked or annulled. ΘΚΠ society > authority > command > command or bidding > [adjective] > of command, etc.: operative or binding unrevoked1419 unreverseda1425 in his force1491 unrecalled1597 in force1603 the world > space > relative position > inversion > [adjective] > turned the reverse or wrong way > not unreversed1878 a1425 Direct. Laces in B. Rowland Chaucer & Middle Eng. Stud. in Honour R. H. Robbins (1974) 96 Yn thys lace þu schalt take þe bowes of bothe þyn hondys vnreuerced. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 298 (MED) If all þat evire we kun desire or saye Oo certeyne ordire vnreuersed [L. indeflexa] knytteth, Than wherto schulde we hopen ought or praye? a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) iii. i. 222 The doome (Which vn-reuerst stands in effectuall force). View more context for this quotation 1648 W. Prynne Plea for Lords 63 His sentence..remaines..unreversed. 1711 Armageddon 26 The Case is good while those Votes stand unrevers'd, and those Addresses stand on record. 1787 D. Lamont Serm. II. v. 109 The everlasting statute stands unreversed in heaven. 1827 J. Bentham Rationale Judicial Evid. I. i. viii. 141 The decision remaining unreversed, and, but for legislative authority, unreversable. 1878 W. de W. Abney Treat. Photogr. xxxiv. 278 It is possible to obtain an unreversed impression of the thermal spectrum. 1912 Official Gaz. (U.S. Patent Office) 7 May 136/1 The method of producing printed matter having a dark background and lighter characters..consists in making a form composed of type having unreversed characters [etc.]. 1982 E. Torenbeek Synthesis Subsonic Airplane Design vi. 227/2 It must be possible to produce and correct angles of roll and yaw by the normal (unreversed) use of the controls. 2002 World Archaeol. 33 378 A continuous fire record associated with unreversed deforestation. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2014; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1425 |
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