ensanguinedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɛnˈsaŋɡwɪnd/

動詞

ensanguined

1. simple past tense and past participle of ensanguine

形容詞

ensanguined (comparative more ensanguined, superlative most ensanguined)

1. Bloodstained, bloody.
   • 1796, Matthew Lewis, The Monk, Folio Society 1985, p. 194:

     The flames retired from the spot on which the blood was pouring. A volume of dark clouds rose slowly from the ensanguined earth, and ascended gradually till it reached the vault of the cavern.

   • 1848-50, William Makepeace Thackeray, Pendennis, ch 21:

     Everybody who has the least knowledge of Heraldry and the Peerage must be aware that the noble family of which, as we know, Helen Pendennis was a member, bears for a crest, a nest full of little pelicans pecking at the ensanguined bosom of a big maternal bird, which plentifully supplies the little wretches with the nutriment on which, according to the heraldic legend, they are supposed to be brought up.