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Bitten. World English Historical Dictionary

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Bitten. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1888, rev. 2024. Bitten ppl. a. [pa. pple. of BITE v.]

1   1.  Cut into, pierced, or wounded with the teeth.

2 1613.  Shaks., Hen. VIII., V. iv. 64. Youths that … fight for bitten Apples.

3 1789.  J. O’Donnel in Med. Commun., II. 299. His face on the bitten side was … swelled.

4   2.  fig. Infected, seized with a mania.

5 1847.  L. Hunt, Men, Women, & B., II. vii. 89. Readers not bitten with the love of verse.

6 1873.  Morley, Rousseau, II. 186. Readers of the Social Contract, and … bitten by its dogmatic temper.

7   3.  Often combined with instrumental sbs., as frost-, hunger-, vice-bitten (-bit), etc.

8 1598.  H. C., in Greenham’s Wks., To Rdr.        The thirstie soule, that fainteth in the way, Or hunger-bit for heauenly foode doth long.

9 1669.  Worlidge, Syst. Agric. (1681), 93. The leaves … before they are frost-bitten.

10 1754.  Richardson, Grandison, VI. xxvii. 164. A man vice-bitten.

11   † 4.  actively. Having bitten, biting. (Used with qualifying adverb: cf. fair-spoken.) Obs. rare.

12 1616.  Surfl. & Markh., Countr. Farm, 674. They [Greyhounds] are of all dogs the sorest bitten and least amased with any crueltie in their enemie.

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