| 单词 | compassed |
| 释义 | compassed, ppl. a.|ˈkʌmpəst|
[f. compass v.1 and n.1 + -ed.]
†1. Contrived, cunningly or artfully devised. Obs.
c1430Lydg. Bochas i. ix. (1544) 18 a, His compassed, sleighty, questions. Ibid. ii. xxix. 66 His compassed falsenes and treason. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 161 After confession made by the Sarazen of all hys compassed treason.
†b. ? Cunning, or ? provided with compasses.
1377Langl. P. Pl. B. x. 178, I contreued toles, Of carpentrie, of kerueres and compassed masouns.
2. Surrounded, encircled, etc.; see the vb.
1547J. Harrison Exhort. Scottes 208 Neighbors..compassed within one sea. 1786Cowper Gratitude 49 Compassed about with the goods..of leisure..I indulge my poetical moods. 1859Hawthorne Marb. Faun xxxviii, When the compassed splendour of the actual interior [of the cathedral] glowed before her eyes.
b. fig. Circumscribed. [F. compassé.]
1888Symonds Ben Jonson vi. 163 His boisterous self-assertion, etc...were sufficient to overpower the ceremonious and compassed Scotch laird [Drummond of Hawthornden]. 1890― Ess. II. 261 There is nothing small or mean or compassed in that art.
†3. Rounded, curved, circular, arched. Obs.
1551Recorde Pathw. Knowl. i. Defin., Two compassed lines and one right lyne. Ibid. i. iii, Set one foote of the compasse in the verye point of the angle, and with the other fote draw a compassed arch. 1578Lyte Dodoens ii. cii. 288 Golden Saxifrage..groweth..with compassed leaues. 1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie ii. vi. [vii.] (Arb.) 92 The circumflex, or compast accent. 1655W. F. Meteors iii. 73 The Circle called Halon..seen about the Sunne..is called of the Greeks a compassed plat. 1681J. Chetham Angler's Vade-m. xxii. (1689) 146 A small compassed Hook.
b. compassed roof, compassed window: see compass n.1 D.
1538Leland Itin. (1745) I. 105 Mervelus fair cumpacid Windoes. 1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. i. ii. 120 She came to him th'other day into the compast window. 1615G. Sandys Trav. 167 (D.) A compast roofe. 1825T. D. Fosbroke Encycl. Antiq. vii. 150/2 The Compassed Windows were round.
Hence † ˈcompassedly adv., in a curved line; † ˈcompassedness, curvedness, curvature.
1551Recorde Castle Knowl. (1556) 136 Bothe descendeth compassedlye vnto the contrarye poynte to them againe. 1649W. Blithe Eng. Improv. Impr. (1653) 208 Fault may be in the roughness and ill compassedness of the Share. |
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