shrunken, ppl. a.
(ˈʃrʌŋk(ə)n)
[pa. pple. of shrink v.]
= shrunk ppl. a. 1. a. in predicative use.
| c 950 Lindisf. Gosp. Luke vi. 6 Hond his ðiu suiðra ᵹescruncan manus eius dextra arida. 1390 Gower Conf. I. 98 Hire Lippes schrunken ben for age. 1398 Trevisa Barth. De P.R. xvii. xxiii. (1495) 617 Synewes that ben shronken wyth the Crampe. 1471 Caxton Recuyell (Sommer) I. 43 This dede man of whom the skyn was scorched, the flessh rosted, the senewes shronken. 1582 Bentley Mon. Matrones iii. 290 My bones are so bruised, my sinewes are so shrunken. 1873 M. E. Braddon L. Davoren i, Very shrunken are the stores which Lucius Davoren guards. 1876 J. S. Bristowe Theory & Pract. Med. (1878) 785 The liver shrunken and indurated. 1877 Black Green Past. xxx, The mamma was shrunken and shrivelled. |
b. in attributive use.
| c 1400 Ragman Roll ix. in Wright Anecd. Lit. 84 Your shrunkyn lyppis and your gowuldyn tethe. 1590 Spenser F.Q. i. ix. 20 The..shrunken synewes of her chosen knight. 1625 Bacon Ess., Truth (Arb.) 500 If there were taken out of Mens Mindes, Vaine Opinions, Flattering Hopes..it would leaue the Mindes, of a Number of Men, poore shrunken Things. Ibid., Boldness 519 That puts his Face, into a most Shruncken, and woodden Posture. 1795 Southey Joan of Arc ii. 210 Pale and shrunken cheeks. 1855 Dickens Dorrit i. v, The baking-dish was served up..on a shrunken cloth at an end of the dining-table. 1860 W. Smith's Dict. Bible I. s.v. Antioch, Modern Antakia is a shrunken and miserable place. 1860 Geo. Eliot Mill on Fl. ii. iv, He had rather a shrunken appearance. 1879 ― Theo. Such xvi. 281 The shrunken meaning that popular or polite speech assigns to ‘morality’. |