overwastedとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

overwasted (comparative more overwasted, superlative most overwasted)

1. (obsolete) Wasted or worn out; consumed; spent.
   • 1630, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, →OCLC, stanza 73, page 148:

     VVhen in the Tumult, vvith the ſudden Fright, / VVhilſt eu'ry one for Safetie ſought about, / And none regarded to maintaine the Light, / VVhich being ouer-vvaſted, vvas gone out, / It being then the mid time of the Night, / […] / The Queene alone (at leaſt, if any neare) / They vvere her VVomen, almoſt dead vvith feare.

参照

“overwasted”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.