| 单词 | thewed |
| 释义 | thewed, ppl. a.|θjuːd|
Also 2 þeaud, 3–4 þeu(e)d, 3 i-þæwed, i-þeuwed.
[Orig. pa. pple. of thew v., but app. often treated as f. thew n.1 + -ed2.]
†1. Trained, instructed in morals or manners; having qualities or manners (of a specified kind). Chiefly in compounds, as ill-thewed, well-thewed, etc., -mannered, -conditioned, -natured.
c1200Trin. Coll. Hom. 41 Þe wise man and þat wel þeaud child habbeð boðe on laȝe. c1205Lay. 6536 He wes swiðe soðfest and swiðe wel iðæwed [c 1275 i-þeuwed]. c1374Chaucer Compl. Mars 180 My lady is..so wel fortuned and thewed That thorow the worlde her goodnesse is yshewed. c1440Pallad. on Husb. iv. 856 [Foals] So thewed that from high quyete & reste Anoon they may be stered forto prike. 1456Sir G. Haye Law Arms (S.T.S.) 150 Men..full of vicis, ryotous and evil thewit. 1590Spenser F.Q. ii. vi. 26 Yet would not seeme so rude, and thewed ill As to despise so curteous seeming part. 1596― Hymne in Hon. Beautie 138 A beauteous soule, with faire conditions thewed.
†b. spec. Having good qualities or manners.
a1300Cursor M. 8425 Þe child es theud [v.rr. theued, þewed] and mild o mode, Lok þat he haf maister god. 13..Ibid. 27632 (Fairf.) If þou be þewed al-so curtaise, Þen atte first I wille þe praise. 13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 733 A.a.! blessed be þow,..so boner & þewed. [a1601? Marston Pasquil & Kath. iii. 16 Nay, good Thewte hart: good kind lacke, stay.]
2. Having thews or muscles (of a specified kind).
1864Webster s.v., A well-thewed limb. 1865Swinburne Chastelard i. ii. 34 Do you know that lord With sharp-set eyes? and him with huge thewed throat? Ibid. iv. i. 116 You have a heart thewed harder than my heart. 1881C. De Kay Vis. Nimrod iv. 71 A fearful beast..Amazing thewed, with fourfold plate-like horns. |
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