单词 | canker-eaten |
释义 | > as lemmascanker-eaten C1. Similative and instrumental, as †canker-bitten, canker-eaten, canker-hearted, †canker-mouthed, etc., adjs. ΚΠ 1583 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Serm. on Deuteronomie clxvii. 1034/1 Cankerhearted [Fr. reuesches] against God. 1597 G. Markham tr. G. Pétau de Maulette Deuoreux f. 15 The purest minds are canker-eate with rust. 1599 T. Nashe Lenten Stuffe 14 The canker eaten brasse of their first bricklayers and founders. 1607 Lingua iii. ii, in W. C. Hazlitt Dodsley's Sel. Coll. Old Eng. Plays (1874) IX. 388 Those canker-stomached, spiteful creatures. 1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear xxiv. 119 My name is lost by treasons tooth. Bare-gnawne and canker -bitte. View more context for this quotation 1711 London Gaz. No. 4847/4 Her [sc. a mare's] Tongue Canker-eaten. 1753 T. Smollett Ferdinand Count Fathom II. lxi. 228 His reputation canker-bitten by the venomous tooth of slander. 1773 R. Fergusson Poems 63 'Twas balm to my canker-tooth'd care; The wound of affliction it heal'd. 1820 Hoyle's Games Improved 434 They [sc. cocks] may..become seam-eyed or canker-mouthed. 1848 R. Bolton Hist. County Westchester 239 If one proud, envious, canker-hearted general had his price, our soldiers were above purchase. a1849 W. Nicholson Poet. Wks. (1897) 147 With sorrow, and sickness, and canker-toothed care. 1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 47 The canker-poisonous chains. a1918 N.-V. Ghosha Poet. Wks. Ram Sharma (1919) 52 A flower canker-eaten in its pride. 1980 Buffalo Bill Dam & Reservoir 59 We..put two men on the moon, but we are sometimes sullen and canker-hearted when asked..to put a man on his feet here on earth. < as lemmas |
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