shipwrecked, ppl. a.
(ˈʃɪprɛkt)
[f. shipwreck v. + -ed1.]
Having suffered shipwreck; destroyed or lost by shipwreck.
| 1590 Shakes. Com. Err. i. i. 115 Another ship..Gaue healthfull welcome to their ship-wrackt guests. a 1593 Marlowe Edw. II, i. iv, Unless the sea cast up his shipwrack'd body. 1662 Dryden Astræa Redux 124 His shipwracked vessel. 1702 Rowe Tamerl. i. i, Th' approaching Storm may cast thy Shipwreck'd Wealth Back to thy Arms. 1794 Mrs. Radcliffe Myst. Udolpho xv, Soothing the ship⁓wreck'd sailor's heart. 1855 Macaulay Hist. Eng. xix. IV. 321 A Diving Company which undertook to bring up precious effects from shipwrecked vessels. 1856 Lever Martins of Cro' M. xix, A shipwrecked crew reduced to quarter-rations. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 573 The heroic and dangerous work of saving the shipwrecked. |
b. fig.
| 1596 Nashe Saffron Walden F 2, Hauing found, by much shipwrackt experience, that no worke of his..would passe. 1643 Digby Observ. upon Relig. Med. (1909) 10 The losse of Livies shipwracked Decads. 1652 Heylin Cosmogr. iii. 45 That lost and shipwracked Kingdome. a 1703 Prior Song, In vain You tell, Thrown again upon the Coast, Where first my Shipwrackt Heart was lost. 1742 Wesley ‘O Love, I languish’ ii, Haven to take the shipwrecked in, My everlasting rest from sin! 1751 Earl of Orrery Rem. Swift (1752) 68 The small remains of the shipwreckt fortune. 1862 Dickens Let. 7 Oct., Through those two harbours of a shipwrecked heart, I..believe..you will..find a peaceful resting-place. |