bestraughtとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

From be- +‎ straught (“stretched”), modelled after distraught, forstraught, etc.

形容詞

bestraught (comparative more bestraught, superlative most bestraught)

1. (obsolete) Distracted; mad, distraught.
   • 1748, [Samuel Richardson], “Letter DXII”, in Clarissa. Or, The History of a Young Lady: […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: […] S[amuel] Richardson; […], OCLC 13631815:

     For, Belford ('tis folly to deny it), I have been, to use an old word, quite bestraught.

派生語

• bestraughted

Further reading

• N[athan] Bailey (1721), “BESTROUGHT”, in An Universal Etymological English Dictionary: […], London: […] E. Bell, J. Darby, […], OCLC 220594298, column 1.

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