| 释义 |
hand of glory
[A transl. of F. main de gloire, a deformation, by ‘popular etymology’, of OF. mandegloire, mandeglore, mandegore (Godefroy), orig. mandragore mandrake.]
Originally applied, in French, to a charm formed of the root of a mandrake; afterwards, in consequence of the deformation of the word, applied to a charm made of the hand of an executed criminal: see quot. 1816 and context.
1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 284 Mountebanks..make of it [mandrake] what we call a Hand of Glory..They..make believe, that by using some little Ceremonies, the Silver they lay near it, will increase to double the Sum every Morning. 1787Grose Provinc. Gloss. Superstitions 73–5. 1816 Scott Antiq. xvii, ‘De hand of glory..is hand cut off from a dead man, as has been hanged for murther, and dried very nice in de shmoke of juniper wood’ [etc.]. 1840Barham Ingol. Leg. (title) The Hand of Glory. |