caitiff | (adj) สารเลว, เลว, ต่ำช้า, หยาบ |
caitiff | (n) คนเลว, คนสารเลว, คนต่ำช้า, คนหยาบ |
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caitiff | (n) a cowardly and despicable person |
caitiff | (adj) despicably mean and cowardly |
Caitiff | a. [ OE. caitif, cheitif, captive, miserable, OF. caitif, chaitif, captive, mean, wretched, F. chétif, fr. L. captivus captive, fr. capere to take, akin to E. heave. See Heave, and cf. Captive. ] Arnold had sped his caitiff flight. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ] |
Caitiff | n. A captive; a prisoner. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ] Avarice doth tyrannize over her caitiff and slave. Holland. [ 1913 Webster ] The deep-felt conviction of men that slavery breaks down the moral character . . . speaks out with . . . distinctness in the change of meaning which caitiff has undergone signifying as it now does, one of a base, abject disposition, while there was a time when it had nothing of this in it. Trench. [ 1913 Webster ] |