| 释义 |
marred, ppl. a.|mɑːd|
[f. mar v. + -ed1.]
†a. Perplexed, distracted.
b. Spoilt, injured. Now rare exc. dial. of a child: ‘Spoilt’, peevish. See also mard a.
c. Disfigured, mutilated.
c1350Will. Palerne 664, I am Meliors, neiȝh marred, man, for þi sake. 1447O. Bokenham Seyntys (Horstm.) i. (Margarete) 291 Euere musynge in his marryd mood How..He myht bereuyn hyre hyr virginyte. 1552Lyndesay Monarche Prol. 220 Sick marde Musis may mak me no supplee. 1611Bible Isa. lii. 14 His visage was so marred more then any man. 1611Cotgr., Mauvais..depraued, corrupt, mard. 1790Pennant London (1813) 358 A marble groupe..with London and Commerce whimpering like two marred children. 1856G. E. Jewsbury Sorrows of Gentility II. i. 2 The grandfather gave it [a baby] impatiently back to the nurse with the observation that ‘It was very marred’. 1870Pall Mall G. 10 Dec. 12 The shadow of their marred journey rests upon the souls of all the English members of the party. 1898W. K. Johnson Terra Tenebr. 92 Let the marred earth tremble and pass. 1903Blackw. Mag. June 632/2 With his marred face [said of a man whose nose had been cut off].
Hence ˈmarredness.
1587Golding De Mornay xvii. 275 Notwithstanding all this marrednesse, yet the Soule liueth..pure and clean in God. |
