low-thoughtedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

low-thoughted (not comparable)

1. (idiomatic, obsolete) Having one's thoughts directed towards mean or insignificant subjects.
   • Early C19, Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry:

     In spite of the low-thoughted envy which would undervalue contemporary merit, our own will be a memorable age in intellectual achievements, and we live among such philosophers and poets as surpass beyond comparison any who have appeared since the last national struggle for civil and religious liberty

   • 1634 October 9 (first performance), [John Milton], edited by H[enry] Lawes, A Maske Presented at Ludlow Castle, 1634: […] [Comus], London: […] [Augustine Matthews] for Hvmphrey Robinson, […], published 1637, →OCLC; reprinted as Comus: […] (Dodd, Mead & Company’s Facsimile Reprints of Rare Books; Literature Series; no. I), New York, N.Y.: Dodd, Mead & Company, 1903, →OCLC:

     Which men call Earth, and, with low-thoughted care,
     Confined and pestered in this pinfold here