ill-
in combination.
A. General uses.
I. From ill adj.
1. a. In attributive relation: see ill a. 9; also ill blood, ill breeding, illfare, ill humour, ill luck, ill nature, ill-usage, ill will.
b. Parasynthetic compounds: see 8.
II. From ill n.
2. Objective and obj. genitive, as † ill-abearing (enduring evil), † ill-aboding (= ill-boding), ill-breeding, ill-designing, ill-dispersing, ill-divining, ill-doing, ill-halsening, ill-intending, ill-persuading, ill-presaging, ill-uttering, adjs.; ill-deemer, ill-doer, ill-doing, ill-dreader, ill-foreboder, ill-thinker, ns.; ill-willer, -willing, -wish, -wisher.
| 1615 Chapman Odyss. xiii. 455 Bound to this *ill-abearing destiny. |
| 1626 Jackson Creed viii. xxvi. §4 This unseasonable *ill-aboding desire..‘Give us a king to judge us’. a 1711 Ken Psyche Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 269 Ill-aboding Birds who hate the Day. |
| 1710–11 Swift Examiner (J.), The craft of *ill designing men. 1791 Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 83 To encourage ill-designing men. |
| 1594 Shakes. Rich. III, iv. i. 53 O *ill dispersing Winde of Miserie. |
| 1592 ― Rom. & Jul. iii. v. 54, I haue an *ill Diuining soule. |
| 1738 Swift Pol. Conversat. 89 *Ill Doers are ill Deemers. 1815 Scott Guy M. liii, It is the ill-doers are ill-dreaders. 1868 Helps Realmah i. (1876) 2 The ill-doings of all the ill-doers who [etc.]. |
| 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 70 We knew not The Doctrine of *ill-doing. 1715 Leoni Palladio's Archit. (1742) II. 95 Temples erected to ill-doing Gods. |
| 1782 Burns Poem, Oh why the deuce should I repine, And be an *ill foreboder? |
| 1602 Carew Cornwall 1 b, This *ill-halsening hornie name hath..opened a gap to the scoffes of many. |
| 1703 Congreve Tears Amaryllis 89 Skreams of *ill-presaging Birds. 1787 Burns Death Sir J. Blair 1 The lamp of day, with ill-presaging glare, Dim, cloudy, sunk beneath the western wave. |
| c 1515 Cocke Lorell's B. 11 Surmowsers, *yll thynkers, and make brasers. |
| 1606 Shakes. Ant. & Cl. ii. v. 35 The Gold I giue thee, will I melt and powr Downe thy *ill vttering throate. |
3. Instrumental and dative, as
ill-deceived (deceived by evil),
ill-inclining (inclining to evil).
| 1627–77 Feltham Resolves i. xxvi. 46 The ill-inclining soul. 1647 H. More Poems, Insomn. Philos. xxiii, Their ill-deceived soul. |
III. From
ill adv. In 6 and 7 the hyphen is only syntactic, being required when the qualified
adj. is used
attrib., but unnecessary when it is predicative:
cf. ill adv. Introd. note.
Both elements have usually a main stress, but one or other may predominate according to the construction; in particular, combinations like
ill-built,
ill-fated,
ill-fitting, standing before a
n., have usually the stronger stress on
ill.
Cf. an ˈill-built house,
the chimney is ˈill ˈbuilt;
an ˈill-ˌfated prince,
an ˈill-fitting dress,
a child by no means ill-ˈfavoured.
4. With verbs, as
ill-husband,
ill-judge,
ill-requite;
ill-treat,
ill-use.
ill-favour v. trans., to treat badly, to be inimical to or hostile towards. (Two stresses.)
| 1639 T. Brugis tr. Camus' Mor. Relat. 271 Whether..he illhusbanded the mind of Parmene. 1657–8 Burton's Diary II. 362, I hope they will never ill-requite it. 1673 Lady's Call. 54 To what can we more reasonably impute [it]..then to our ill-husbanding the means of grace? 1815 Sporting Mag. XLVI. 21 Shelton again ill-judged his distance. 1899 F. J. Crowest Beethoven 128 His environment generally throughout his early life ill-favoured the contemplative mood. 1908 Westm. Gaz. 21 Aug. 2/1 Fortune ill-favoured them in many skirmishes. |
5. With adjectives derived from verbs, as
† ill-agreeable,
ill-effaceable,
ill-manageable,
ill-observant.
| 1614 Raleigh Hist. World iii. (1634) 8 Ill-agreeable to the holy Scriptures. 1813 C. Lofft in E. H. Barker Parriana (1829) II. 79 note, A very ill-manageable portion of time. 1842 Sir A. De Vere Song of Faith 83 Ill-observant eyes. 1860 Pusey Min. Proph. 523 The ill-effaceable spot of ungodliness. |
6. With
pres. pples., or adjectives of
ppl. form, forming
adjs., as
ill-according,
ill-agreeing,
ill-beseeming,
ill-calculating,
ill-consisting,
ill-contenting,
ill-fitting,
ill-going,
ill-greeting,
ill-guiding,
ill-neighbouring,
ill-perfuming,
ill-resounding,
ill-smelling,
ill-sounding,
ill-succeeding,
ill-suiting,
ill-yoking, etc.;
ill-faring, -judging, -looking. (Stress: see under III. above.)
| 1611 Bible Wisd. xviii. 10 There sounded an *ill-according crie of the enemies. |
| 1623 in Rushw. Hist. Coll. (1659) I. 94 The disposition of that People being..so malignant and *ill-agreeing with us. |
| 1886 W. J. Tucker E. Europe 198 With an *ill-befitting air of haughtiness. |
| 1592 Shakes. Rom. & Jul. i. v. 76 Put off these frownes, An *ill beseeming semblance for a Feast. |
| 1893 A. S. Eccles Sciatica 39 *Ill-fitting joints in the woodwork. |
| 1665 Boyle Occas. Refl. ii. viii. (1848) 123 Telling the Strokes of an *ill-going Clock. |
| 1634 Milton Comus 406 Lest some *ill-greeting touch attempt the person Of our unowned sister. |
| 1592 Shakes. Ven. & Ad. 919 His *ill-resounding noise. |
| 1897 Allbutt Syst. Med. III. 889 Ill-looking and often *ill-smelling mucus. |
| 1693 Dryden Juvenal Introd. (1697) 88 He was forc'd to crowd his Verse with *ill-sounding Monosyllables. |
| 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ii. 2 Their bootelesse paines, and *ill succeeding night. |
| 1643 Milton Divorce i. xiii, The forcible continuing of an improper and *ill-yoking couple. |
7. With past
pples., or adjectives of the same form, forming
adjs.:
a. in senses 1–4 of the
adv., as
ill-achieved,
ill-acquired,
ill-begotten,
ill-behaved,
ill-celebrated,
ill-composed,
ill-erected,
ill-gendered,
ill-invented,
ill-meant,
ill-occupied,
ill-requited,
ill-spent,
ill-won;
ill-affected, -disposed, -got, -gotten;
b. in sense 5, as
ill-adventured,
ill-annexed,
ill-bested,
ill-constructed,
ill-foreseen,
ill-joined,
ill-knotted,
ill-met,
ill-pleased,
ill-wedded;
c. in sense 6, as
ill-accoutred,
ill-acted,
ill-adapted,
ill-adjusted,
ill-armed,
ill-arranged,
ill-assorted,
ill-balanced,
ill-brought-up,
ill-built,
ill-cemented,
ill-chosen,
ill-clad,
ill-coined,
ill-coloured,
ill-concealed,
ill-conceived,
ill-concerted,
ill-conducted,
ill-considered,
ill-contrived,
ill-cured,
ill-defined,
ill-digested,
ill-directed,
ill-dissembled,
ill-done,
ill-drawn,
ill-dressed,
ill-equipped,
ill-fed,
ill-fitted,
ill-founded,
ill-furnished,
ill-governed,
ill-grounded,
ill-guided,
ill-informed,
ill-joined,
ill-lighted,
ill-lit,
ill-made,
ill-managed,
ill-matched,
ill-mated,
ill-nurtured,
ill-paid,
ill-performed,
ill-qualified,
ill-regulated,
ill-roasted,
ill-ruled,
ill-spun (
c 1460),
ill-strung,
ill-supported,
ill-taught,
ill-tuned,
ill-understood,
ill-ventilated,
ill-worded,
ill-written,
ill-wrought,
ill-yoked, etc.;
ill-advised, -bred, -sorted,
q.v. (Stress: see under III. above.)
These quasi-combinations can be formed with almost any
pa. pple., or
adj. in
-ed, and their number (
esp. in group c.) is practically unlimited. Only a few are here illustrated.
| 1777 Robertson Hist. Amer. (1778) II. vi. 169 A very slender and *ill-accoutred train of followers. |
| 1848 Mill Pol. Econ. II. v. §1. 293 The same reckless prodigality with which they squandered any other part of their *ill-acquired possessions. |
| 1640 Habington Castara iii. (Arb.) 127 Like some dull *ill-acted part. |
| 1878 W. James Coll. Ess. & Rev. (1920) 53 If his powers correspond to the wants of this social environment, he may survive, even though he be *ill-adapted to the natural or ‘outer’ environment. |
| Ibid., Individuals who, by their special powers, satisfy these desires are protected by their fellows and enabled to survive, though their mental constitution should in other respects be lamentably *ill-‘adjusted’ to the outward world. 1903 Daily Chron. 25 June 4/1 In this ill-adjusted world men have to take what they can get. |
| a 1649 Drummond of Hawthornden Poems Wks. (1711) 42 The ship-wreck of my *ill-adventured youth. |
| 1593 Shakes. Lucr. 874 *Ill-annexed Opportunity. |
| 1807 J. Barlow Columb. vi. 225 Ridgefield and Compo saw his valorous might, With *ill armed swains put veteran troops to flight. 1942 W. S. Churchill End of Beginning (1943) 32 China, ill-armed or half-armed, has..withstood the main fury of Japan. |
| 1814 *Ill-assorted [see assorted ppl. a.]. 1849 Macaulay Hist. Eng. iv. I. 430 The misery of an ill assorted marriage. 1938 W. S. Churchill Into Battle (1941) 29 Three..Ministers of the Crown have been..prejudiced by being given..ill-assorted tasks. |
| 1864 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1948) 119 The clouds come like *ill-balanced crags. 1956 K. Clark Nude vii. 284 Could fill an ill-balanced nature with destructive envy. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Mal-avenant,..*ill behaued. |
| a 1592 H. Smith Wks. (1867) II. 477 O *ill-bestid. Poor in store, in wealth a wretch. |
| 1579–80 North Plutarch (1676) 800 This *ill-brought-up Tyrant. |
| 1704 Addr. Tiverton 16 Oct. in Lond. Gaz. No. 4066/8 To enable Your Majesty to break the *ill-celebrated Ballance of Power. |
| 1580 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 166 The ungratefull treason of her *ill-chosen husband. |
| 1784 Cowper Task iv. 379 *Ill-clad and fed but sparely. |
| 1779–81 Johnson L.P., Shenstone Wks. IV. 219 His words *ill-coined, or ill-chosen. |
| 1605 Shakes. Macb. iv. iii. 77 In my most *ill-compos'd Affection. |
| 1895 B. M. Croker Village Tales 38 As time wore on, there actually arose an *ill-concealed jealousy of their old corps. 1960 Farmer & Stockbreeder 8 Mar. 63/3 The report of the Cook Committee was awaited with ‘ill-concealed impatience’. |
| 1839 Mill in Westm. Rev. Apr. 497 There is a notion abroad that they are the *ill-conditioned and ill-conducted portion. |
| 1835 ― in London Rev. II. iii. 116 In the English aristocracy there has surely been..crude and *ill-considered legislation enough. 1956 E. E. Evans-Pritchard Nuer Relig. iii. 96 It was because this was not appreciated by British administrators that the role..of the prophets was very largely misunderstood and their treatment of them ill-considered. |
| 1847 Mill Let. 19 June in Works (1963) XIII. 721 The long paper..is full of unfinished & *ill constructed..sentences. 1944 R. Chandler Let. 26 Jan. in R. Chandler Speaking (1966) 42 A column and a half of respectful attention will be given to any fourth-rate, ill-constructed, mock-serious account of the life of a bunch of cotton pickers in the deep south. |
| 1655 Fuller Ch. Hist. ix. vi. §67 Homes..small and *ill-contrived. |
| 1866 Tate Brit. Mollusks iv. 110 Its conical shell with a shallow *ill-defined umbilicus. |
| a 1849 Poe Works (1865) I. 418 Some feeble and *ill-directed efforts resulted in complete failure on their part, and, of course, in total triumph on mine. 1947 Mind LVI. 132 They have thus been led to offer facile, but ill-directed, rebutments of the refutation. |
| 1879 Geo. Eliot Theo. Such xvi. 291 *Ill-done work. |
| 1956 Nature 10 Mar. 446/2 At present we are *ill-equipped to do so. 1962 W. Nowottny Lang. Poets Use i. 5 The exhausted and ill-equipped army. |
| 1649 G. Daniel Trinarch. To Rdr. 100 Little spoone-Meats cull From Stowe's *ill-fardled dry fatt. |
| 1671 Milton Samson 1504 Thy hopes are not *ill founded. |
| 1685 tr. Arnauld & Nicole's Logic I. iii. 68 Such a Presumption and Rashness is a sign of an *ill-govern'd and ill-qualified mind. 1860 Ruskin Unto this Last in Cornh. Mag. Sept. 281 In the inactive or ill-governed nation, the gradations of decay and the victories of treason work out also their own rugged system of subjection and success. |
| 1642 Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iii. xx. 207 Overhot *illgrounded Zeal. |
| 1824 *Ill informed [see informed ppl. a. 2 b]. 1961 New Eng. Bible Rom. x. 2 To their zeal for God I can testify, but it is an ill-informed zeal. |
| 1679 Burnet Hist. Ref. (1820) I. ii. 505 Sanders's charge on her, was an *ill-invented calumny. |
| 1905 W. Holman Hunt Pre-Raphaelitism I. iii. 46 With small and *ill-lit studios, and without means to pay models, he [sc. Haydon] could never do justice to his intellectual conceptions. |
| 1719 De Foe Crusoe ii. iv, Such refractory, *ill-matched fellows. |
| 1667 Milton P.L. xi. 684 The product Of those *ill-mated Marriages. |
| 1538 Starkey England ii. i. 155 For the takyng away of thes *yl-occupyd personys. |
| 1700 Dryden tr. 1st bk. Homer's Ilias 255 My *ill-paid pains to mourn. |
| 1890 W. James Princ. Psychol. I. x. 369 The only service that transcendental egoism has done to psychology has been by protests against Hume's ‘bundle’-theory of mind. But this service has been *ill-performed. 1946 A. L. Bacharach Brit. Mus. i. 12 The Churches, who never seemed to realise the paralysing effect their badly written, ill-performed music was having on their congregations. |
| 1861 Trollope Orley F. (1862) I. xxi. 161 An angry *ill-pleased wife is no pleasant companion for a gentleman on a long evening. |
| 1685 *Ill-qualified [see ill-governed]. 1790 Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 233 The best of the unqualified or ill-qualified monarchies. |
| 1803 Chalmers Let. in Life (1851) I. 483 The *ill-regulated mind of Rousseau was the victim of a thousand infirmities. |
| 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. iii. ii. 38 Like an *ill roasted Egge, all on one side. |
| a 1553 Udall Royster D. iii. ii. (Arb.) 39 A sight Of him that made vs all so *yll shent. |
| c 1460 Towneley Myst. ii. 435 *Ill spon weft ay comes foule out. |
| 1640 Habington Castara iii. (Arb.) 117 How can I turne to jollitie My *ill-strung Harpe. |
| 1733 A. Baxter Inquiry Human Soul ii. xxvi. 81 The Atheist's *ill-supported, tottering world. |
| 1611 Shakes. Wint. T. i. ii. 460 His *ill-ta'ne suspition. |
| 1644 Milton Educ. Wks. (1847) 100/1 All their childish and *illtaught qualities. |
| 1595 Shakes. John ii. i. 197 These *ill-tuned repetitions. |
| 1580 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 407 That *ill-vnderstood intercession. |
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. iv. 88 *Ill-weau'd Ambition, how much art thou shrunke? |
| 1643 Milton Divorce ii. ix, The distresses and extremities of an *ill-wedded man. |
| 1500–20 Dunbar Poems xvii. 19 *Ill-won geir riches not the kin. |
| 1826 J. W. Croker in C. Papers (1884) I. xi. 325 An *ill-written, ill-spelled, ill-folded, ill-sealed letter. |
| 1599 Marston Sco. Villanie i. i, Like Aphrogenias *ill-yoked marriage. |
IV. 8. Parasynthetic combs., in which
ill- is sometimes of adverbial, sometimes of adjectival origin. (Thus
ill-intentioned is opposed to
well-intentioned, but
ill-humoured to
good-humoured.)
ill-complexioned,
ill-countenanced,
ill-eyed,
ill-featured,
ill-figured,
ill-flavoured,
ill-headed,
ill-mouthed, (
c 1375),
ill-neighboured,
ill-noised,
ill-nosed,
ill-odoured,
ill-principled,
ill-savoured,
ill-savoury,
ill-scented,
ill-spirited,
ill-tasted,
ill-visaged,
adjs. See also
ill-conditioned, -deedy, -favoured, -humoured, -looked, -mannered, -natured, -starred, -tempered, -tongued, -willed, -willy. (Stress: see under III. above.)
| a 1726 Collier (J.), Envy..meagre and *ill complexioned. |
| 1638 F. Junius Paint. Ancients 41 Hard-favoured, *ill-countenanced damsels. |
| 1670 Moral State Eng. 90 Lame, thin-faced, *il-eyed. |
| 1513 More Rich. III (1883) 5 *Ill fetured of limmes. |
| 1860 Froude Hist. Eng. xxviii. V. 367 She was short and *ill-figured. |
| 1748 Anson's Voy. ii. iv. 164 The..tobacco..was not *ill flavoured. |
| 1596 Spenser F.Q. iv. i. 3 Whilest every man, Surcharg'd with wine, were heedlesse and *ill-hedded. 1599 Shakes. Much Ado iii. i. 64 A launce ill headed. |
| c 1375 Sc. Leg. Saints, Bertholomeus 235 With gret noyse and *ilmowtht late. |
| 1580 Sidney Arcadia (1622) 203 A Gitterne, il-played on, accompanied with a hoarse voice..made them looke the way of the *ill-noysed song. |
| 1646 J. Gregory Notes & Obs. (1650) 169 The bald *ill-nos'd Galilæan. |
| 1741 Richardson Pamela I. 160 She is so *ill-principled a woman. |
| 1583 Stubbes Anat. Abus. ii. (1882) 65 A slouenly, *ill sauoured, and vncleane fellowe. |
| 1598 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. i. Eden 102 Sweet as Roses smelt th' *ill-savory Rew. |
| 1596 Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, v. v. 2 *Ill-spirited Worcester, did we not send Grace, Pardon, and tearmes of Loue to all of you? |
| 1651–3 Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year (1678) 298 Bitter and *ill-tasted drugs. |
| 1865 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1948) 142 And John shall lie, where winds are dead, And hate the *ill-visaged cursing tars. 1894 Ill visaged [see visaged a.]. |
B. Special
Combs.:
ˈill-aˈccustomed a., (
a) little accustomed or habituated to something; (
b) having little custom, little frequented by customers;
ill assurance, want of assurance;
† ill-boned a., having diseased or injured bones;
ill-born a., of evil birth or origin;
ill-content,
ill-contented adjs., discontented,
† displeased;
ill-convenient a., inconvenient, ill-suiting (now
vulgar); so
ill-convenience,
† ill-conveniency;
ill-customed a., (
a) having little custom; (
b) characterized by a bad custom or fashion;
ill-deserving a., deserving of ill; so
ill-deserver;
ill-faced a., having an unpleasing face or aspect, ugly;
ill-famed a., of bad fame or repute;
† ill-fancied a., inelegant in design;
ill-fashioned a., of an ill fashion, or badly fashioned;
† ill-favourably adv., (
a)
= ill-favouredly; (
b) with disfavour, unfavourably;
ill-formed a., badly formed, or having a bad form; so
ill-formedness;
ill-friended a., ill provided with friends;
† ill-habited a., having an ill habit of body, unhealthy, disordered;
ill-hearted a., having an evil heart, ill-disposed, malicious;
† ill-language v. trans., to use ill language about, speak ill of;
† ill-lettered a., ill taught, illiterate;
† ill-liking a. [see
liking a.], in bad condition;
ill-lived (
-laɪvd)
a., leading a bad or immoral life;
ill-meaning a., meaning evil, malicious in intent;
† ill-minded a., having an evil mind or disposition, unfriendly, hostile, malicious; hence
† ill-mindedness;
† ill-monied a., ill supplied with money, poor;
† ill-part a., playing an evil part;
ill-scraped a. Sc., not scraped clean, foul;
ill-seeming a., of evil appearance or aspect;
ill-shaped,
-shapen adjs., badly shaped, or of a bad shape; ill-contrived, awkward;
† ill-speak v. trans., to speak evil of, slander, traduce;
† ill-stated a., in an evil state or condition;
† ill-thewed a., ill-mannered;
ill-thriven a., that has thriven badly; badly grown, sickly, stunted; peevish, ill-disposed;
† ill-wresting a., wresting any one's words or actions to his disadvantage.
| 1669 Woodhead St. Teresa i. 314 Some Souls so infirm and *ill-accustomed..though of a noble Nature. 1828 Miss Mitford Village Ser. iii. (1863) 65 But one ill-accustomed shop. |
| 1905 Macm. Mag. Dec. 151 As they grew out of the restive sensitiveness of youthful *ill-assurance,..they turned with gratitude towards their parent. c 1909 D. H. Lawrence Collier's Friday Night (1934) ii. 51 Ernest (flushing up at the sound of her ill-assurance). |
| 1645 Rutherford Tryal & Tri. Faith xvii. (1845) 184 There is a Saviour's hand..to wheel in an *ill-boned soul. |
| 1640–4 in Rushw. Hist. Coll. iii. (1692) I. 215 To have strangled their *ill-born Resolutions in the Cradle. 1701 De Foe True-born Eng. i. 132 From this amphibious ill-born mob began That vain, ill-natured thing, an Englishman. |
| c 1489 Caxton Sonnes of Aymon xxiii. 496 Whan the frenshe men sawe the grete cruelnes of Charlemagn..they were *yll contente. 1864 Tennyson En. Ard. 558 So the three..Dwelt with eternal summer, ill-content. |
| 1582 N. Lichefield tr. Castanheda's Conq. E. Ind. lxxix. 163 With this spoyle the king..remained so *ill contented. 1643 Milton Divorce i. ii, When the household estate..is so illcontented. |
| 1694 Salmon Bates' Disp. (1713) 658/1 Leaving out the Opium it may be given..twice a day, without any *ill Conveniency. 1719 Mem. Lewis XIV, v. 53 Liable to a thousand Illconveniencies. |
| 1740 Garrick Lying Valet ii, It will be *ill-convenient to pay me to-morrow. 1864 Cornh. Mag. IX. 207 They're always a-coming at illconvenient times. |
| 1611 Rich Honest. Age (1614) 26 But an *ill customed shoppe, that taketh not fiue shillings a day. 1870 Ruskin Lect. Art ii. 39 Forbid them to make what is ill-customed, and unrestrained..and without order. |
| 1675 tr. Camden's Hist. Eliz. iii. (1688) 364, I have bestowed Benefits upon *Ill-deservers. |
| 1625 K. Long tr. Barclay's Argenis i. xii. 31 The *ill-deserving King. 1734 Watts Reliq. Juv. (1789) 154 So profane and ill-deserving a rout of men. |
| 1590 Shakes. Com. Err. iv. ii. 20 He is deformed..*Ill-fac'd, worse bodied, shapelesse. 1645 Quarles Sol. Recant. ii. 14 Let such as always are at wars With their own fortunes, curse their ill-fac'd stars. |
| 1483 Cath. Angl. 195/1 *Ille famed, infamatus. 1897 F. Whyte Engl. Stage 103 A street where ill-fed and ill-famed Frenchmen were..beginning to congregate. |
| 1716 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. to Lady X― 1 Oct., I never..saw so many fine clothes *ill-fancied. |
| 1600 E. Blount tr. Conestaggio 211 Fortified..with *ill fashioned trenches. 1821 Scott Kenilw. xxii, His ill-fashioned gaberdine. |
| 1576 Newton Lemnie's Complex. (1633) 15 They..make the body to breake out *ilfavourably..with scabs. 1643 True Informer 27 It hath made the Venetian..to looke but ilfavourably of us. |
| a 1672 A. Bradstreet Several Poems (1678) 236 Thou *ill-form'd offspring of my feeble brain. 1690 Locke Hum. Und. IV. iv. §16 They..make bold..to destroy ill-formed and mis-shaped Productions. 1972 Language XLVIII. i. 82 These have to do with (1) dialect variations and (2) degree of *ill-formedness. 1972 A. Makkai Idiom Struct. Eng. 84 Let us now examine a few cases of lexemic illformedness. |
| 1637 Rutherford Lett. (1862) I. 246 She is not that *ill-friended. |
| 1642 Rogers Naaman 845 It becomes as meat to an *ill habited stomach. |
| a 1617 Hieron Wks. (1619–20) II. 489 Many an hollow and *ill hearted counterfait. 1786 Burns Twa Dogs 180 Fient haet o' them 's ill-hearted fellows. |
| 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. i. iv. §36. 551 Neither was this Trinity of Divine Subsistences only thus *ill-languag'd by the Pagans generally. |
| 1604 F. Herring Modest Defence 32 In illiberal and *illettered Natures. |
| 1648 Sanderson Serm. II. 241 They [trees] become *ill-liking and unfruitful. |
| 1633 Bp. Hall Occas. Medit. §56 A scandalous and *ill-lived Teacher. |
| 1633 G. Herbert Temple, Glance ii, The malicious and *ill-meaning harm. 1681 Lond. Gaz. No. 1619/4 Designing and ill-meaning Men. |
| 1611 Cotgr., Mal-enthalenté, maliciously affected, *ill-minded. 1726 Amherst Terræ Fil. II. 8 Ill-minded priests. |
| 1681 Crowne Hen. VI, ii. 14, I see..Too much *ill-mindedness in all this fury. |
| 1608 Tourneur Rev. Trag. iv. ii. Wks. 1878 II. 110, I thinke thou art *ill-monied. |
| 1601 Munday & Chettle Death Robt. Earl Huntington D ij b, Let king Iohn, that *ill part personage..Of chaste Matilda let him make an end. |
| 1858 M. Porteous Souter Johnny 32 Mare than ae *ill scrapit tongue Misca'd ye sair. 1884 Pae Eustace 67 To put up with your ill-scraped tongue. |
| 1596 Shakes. Tam. Shr. v. ii. 143 Like a fountaine troubled, Muddie, *ill seeming. |
| 1592 ― Rom. & Jul. v. i. 44 Skins Of *ill shap'd fishes. |
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xxii. (Arb.) 263 Such manner of vncouth speech did the Tanner of Tamworth vse..I hope I shall be hanged to morrow; for I feare me I shall be hanged, whereat the king laughed..to heare his *ill shapen terme. |
| 1582 N. T. (Rhem.) Acts xix. 9 *Il-speaking the way of the Lord before the multitude. |
| 1605 Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iii. iv. Captaines 1010 An *ill-stated body. |
| 1647 H. More Song of Soul ii. i. i. xx, Certes they be *ill thew'd and baser born. |
| 1806 Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 58 Short *ill-thriven furze. 1843 Lever J. Hinton xviii. (1878) 130 A little cross-grained, ill-thriven old fellow. |
| c 1600 Shakes. Sonn. cxl, Now this *ill wresting world is growne so bad, Madde slanderers by madde eares beleeued be. |