purblind

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Of a person: having impaired vision; partially blind; dim-sighted.

   “Thy dignitie or autorite, wherin thou onely differest from other, is (as it were) but a weighty or heuy cloke, fresshely gliteringe in the eyen of them that be poreblynde, where unto the it is paynefull, if thou weare hym in his right facion, and as it shal best become the.”

2. sıfat Of the eyes: unable to see well, especially due to old age; weak.
3. sıfat Of a person: lacking in discernment or understanding; dim-witted, unintelligent.

   “Yet did my Breſt that glorious fire incloſe, / VVhich their dull purblind Ignorance not ſavv, […]”

4. sıfat Of a place: poorly illuminated; dark, dim.
5. sıfat Completely blind.

   “Speake to my goſhip Venus one faire vvord, / One nickname for her purblind ſonne and her, / Young Abraham: Cupid he that ſhot ſo true, / VVhen King Cophetua lou'd the beger mayd.”

6. sıfat Having one eye blind.

   “The French haue a good Prouerbe. Entre les auengles, les borgnes ſont les Roys: Among the blinde, the pore blind are the Kings. And thus they vvhich haue no skill in tongues, vvill boldly ſay, that this or that man doth perfectly, and vvithout ſtamering, ſpeake many tongs.”

7. sıfat Near-sighted, short-sighted; myopic.

   “Pore-blinde Men, ſee beſt in the Dimmer Lights; And likevviſe haue their Sight Stronger neere hand, than thoſe that are not Pore-blinde, And can Reade and VVrite ſmaller Letters.”

8. sıfat Far-sighted, long-sighted; hypermetropic.
9. isim A person who has impaired vision or is partially blind.

   “To love and adore is our proper province, not to knovv much; for as to knovvledge, vve are mere purblinds both in naturals and ſpirituals.”

10. fiil To cause (someone) to have impaired vision or become partially blind.

    “And may the Sun, that novv begins t'appear / I'th Horizon to uſher in the year, / Melt all thoſe fatuous Vapours, vvhoſe falſe light / Purblinds the VVorld, and leads them from the right; […]”