| 释义 |
ˈwormship nonce-wd.
[-ship.]
The personality of a worm. (With possess. pron., as a mock-title.)
1648J. Beaumont Psyche v. cxlix, Vain Son of Dust pull down thy foolish Crest, And in this Glasse thy feeble Wormship see. 1652Benlowes Theophila ii. xviii, Now serves our Guiltiness, as winding sheet To wrap up Lepers; Cover meet; While thus stern vengeance does our Wormships sadly greet. 1775S. J. Pratt Liberal Opin. cxxxiv. (1783) IV. 217 A dead man being..property under the earth; so that..as the property properly belonged only to the worms, the matter ought to be submitted to their worshipful wormships. |