maimed, ppl. a.
(meɪmd)
[f. maim v. + -ed1.]
Mutilated, crippled, injured: see the verb.
| a 1400–50 Alexander 4544 Lo, to so many mayned gods ȝour menbris ȝe dele. 1578 Nottingham Rec. IV. 176, iiij. meymed men that cum fourth of Eyrland. 1591 Spenser M. Hubberd 272 But my late maymed limbs lack wonted might To doo their kindly services. 1625 Bacon Ess., Greatness Kingd. (Arb.) 491 Hospitals for Maimed Soldiers. 1638 Junius Paint. Ancients 42 They stand and stare upon such maimed creatures as want either legges or armes. 1720 De Foe Capt. Singleton xi. (1840) 198 This maimed man. 1864–7 Geo. Eliot Sp. Gipsy i. (1868) 4 A maimed giant in his agony. |
b. fig.
| 1570 Billingsley Euclid vii. Introd. 183 Geometrie boroweth of it [Arithmetic] principles,..and is as it were maymed without it. 1602 Shakes. Ham. v. i. 242 Who is that they follow, And with such maimed rites? 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship 308 In such a maimed and dislocated form. 1900 S. Phillips Paolo & Francesca i. 26 All these maiméd wants and thwarted thoughts. |
c. absol.
| 1340 [see maim n. a]. 1340 Ayenb. 141 Þo he hedde y-preched and y-ued þet uolk and þe zike and þe ymamed y-held. c 1420 Chron. Vilod. 1098 For leuer here was þe pore to fede, Þe maymot, þe seke to wasshe & hele. 1526 Tindale Matt. xv. 31 In so moche that the people wondred, to se..the maymed whole. 1764 Foote Mayor of G. i. Wks. 1799 I. 162 Is it your Worship's will that I lend a ministring hand to the maim'd? 1848 A. Jameson Sacr. & Leg. Art II. 298 The sick and maimed who are healed by her intercession. |