witch-riddenとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

witch-ridden

1. Thin and weak; (figuratively) thinly populated.
   • 1877, James Melville Beard, K. K. K. Sketches, Humorous and Didactic Treating the More Important Events of the Ku-Klux-Klan Movement in the South With a Discussion of the Causes Which Gave Rise to It and the Social and Political Issues Emanating From It, Library of Alexandria, →ISBN:

     Even the chickens on their roosts were witch-ridden, […]

   • 1911, Society for Psychical Research (Great Britain), Proceedings of the Society for Psychical Research, page 88:

     Mrs. Piper would be a much more convincing apparition if she could have come to us out of the blue, instead of trailing behind her a nebulous ancestry of magnetic somnambules, witch-ridden children, and ecstatic nuns.

   • 2012 May 23, R. T. Davies, Four Centuries of Witch Beliefs (RLE Witchcraft), Routledge, →ISBN:

     Parliament in the seventeenth century an unsatisfactory barometer of public opinion because the franchise was irregularly distributed and the witch-ridden south-east over-represented.