单词 | weak-sighted |
释义 | weak-sightedadj. Having weak sight; also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [adjective] > having dimness or poor vision darkOE dima1220 bissona1250 murka1300 mistedc1450 obfuscatec1487 spurblind1508 sand-blind1538 dim-sighted1561 blinking1568 dimmed1590 weak-sighteda1591 purblind1592 sand-eyed1592 thick-eyed1598 left-eyed1609 mole-eyed1610 blindish1611 mole-sighted1625 sanded1629 veiled1633 weak-eyed1645 scotomatical1656 mole-blinda1660 swimming1697 wavering1842 foggy1847 scotomatous1866 clouding1868 wall-eyed1873 a1591 H. Smith Sinners Conuersion (1593) sig. A6v If our fayth be so weake sighted that wee cannot see Christ. 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. F 1 Las we are now growne old, weake sighted, alas anyone fooles vs. a1652 R. Brome City Wit ii. ii. sig. B6v, in Five New Playes (1653) My Mayd is very thick of hearing, and exceeding weake sighted. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 381 Nor are the views of God so narrow as to want those helps..which are necessary to weak sighted mortals. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued II. iii. 302 The weak-sighted cannot sustain thy piercing look. 1833 T. Hook Parson's Daughter I. ii. 35 Luckily it was getting dark, and Lovell, moreover, was somewhat weak-sighted. Derivatives ˈweak-ˈsightedness n. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > dimness or poor vision dimnessc825 misteOE mistinessa1382 scotomiaa1400 scotomya1400 obfuscation?a1425 scotoma1543 purblindness1552 sand-blindness1552 caligation1615 caliginousness1620 weak-sightedness1632 cecutiency1646 caliginosity1657 dimsightedness1662 dim1726 caligo1801 asthenopia1875 greying out?1942 1632 R. Brome Northern Lasse ii. iii I hope you will pardon my weake sightednes... Could not your worship make your selfe knowen sooner? 1860 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. Weak~sightedness,..Asthenopia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1926; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.a1591 |
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