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caitiff a. 卑劣的
n. 卑鄙男人 卑劣的卑鄙男人 caitiff adj 1: despicably mean and cowardly n 1: a cowardly and despicable personCaitiff \ Cai" tiff\, a. [ OE. caitif, cheitif, captive, miserable, OF. caitif, chaitif, captive, mean, wretched, F. ch[' e] tif, fr. L. captivus captive, fr. capere to take, akin to E. heave. See { Heave}, and cf. { Captive}.] 1. Captive; wretched; unfortunate. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 2. Base; wicked and mean; cowardly; despicable. [ 1913 Webster] Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. -- W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster]
Caitiff \ Cai" tiff\, n. A captive; a prisoner. [ Obs.] [ 1913 Webster] Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. -- Holland. [ 1913 Webster] 2. A wretched or unfortunate man. [ Obs.] -- Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster] 3. A mean, despicable person; one whose character meanness and wickedness meet. [ 1913 Webster] Note: The deep- felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it. -- Trench. [ 1913 Webster] |
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