dishonoured, -ored, ppl. a.
(dɪsˈɒnəd)
[f. dishonour v. + -ed.]
a. Treated with dishonour. b. Violated, defiled. c. Stained with dishonour, disgraced. † d. Dishonourable, dishonouring (obs.). e. Of a bill of exchange: see dishonour v. 5.
| 1603 Shakes. Meas. for M. iv. iv. 34 Receiuing a dishonor'd life. 1605 ― Lear i. i. 231 No vnchaste action, or dishonoured step. c 1611 Chapman Iliad iv. Argt. 82 He..Gives Menelaus a dishonour'd wound. 1784 Cowper Task vi. 821 God..would else In his dishonoured works himself endure Dishonour. 1837 Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iii. i. (title) Dishonoured Bills. 1856 Kane Arct. Expl. I. xv. 182 Carrying the dishonored vehicle with us. 1881 S. Colvin Landor iii. 62 His dishonoured daughter. |