| 释义 |
‖ yogi|ˈjəʊgiː|
Forms: 7 ioggue, iogue, 9 jogee, jogi, 7, 9 jogue, 8 jougie, joguey, 9 yoguee, yogue, yogee, yogi; yogin.
[Hind. yogī (Skr. yogi-n), f. yoga: see yoga.]
1. An Indian devotee or ascetic who practises the system of yoga, q.v.
1619Purchas Microcosmus lvii. 543 The Indian Gymnosophists..offering violence to Nature in nakednesse, and strict absurd Niceties, wherein they are followed to this day by the Bramenes, Ioggues, and others. 1625― Pilgrims I. ii. 31 An Indian Iogue, a begging Frier of that Bramene Religion. 1727A. Hamilton New Acc. E. Ind. I. 152 There is another Sort called Jougies, who..go naked, except a Bit of Cloth about their Loyns. 1734Cerem. & Relig. Customs Nat. III. 480 The Joguis, who affect to devote themselves to the most dreadful Torments, from a Principle of Pride and Fanaticism. 1810Southey Kehama xiii. xvi, A band Of Yoguees, as they roam'd the land Seeking a spouse for Jaga-Naut their God. 1813J. Forbes Oriental Mem. III. 14 A Yogee, who lives under the tree on the skin of a tiger or leopard, which they are very fond of. 1824Heber Narr. Journ. (1828) I. 133 A ‘Yogi’ (a religious mendicant). 1854Milman Lat. Christ. viii. iv. III. 335 He attained a height of abstraction from earthly things which might have been envied by an Indian Yogue. 1864J. A. Grant Walk across Afr. 317 Like mad ‘jogees’ or devotees. 1871Tylor Prim. Cult. II. xviii. 375 No wonder that..the Hindu yogi should bring on by fasting a state in which he can with bodily eyes behold the gods. 1899Folk-Lore X. 394 The struggle for local supremacy between a Musalman saint and his rival and counterpart, a Hindu jogi. 1922Chambers's Jrnl. 29 Apr. 343/2 Other jogis there are, with heavy iron rings in their ears.
(b)1841Penny Cycl. XX. 402/1 Hence has arisen the saying, that the ‘yogin’ is exalted above the Vedas. 1959Times Lit. Suppl. 27 Mar. 181/5 It is not to divide Time and Eternity that the yogin undertakes his arduous task of re-creation, but to restore to them their true relation. 1962A. Huxley Island v. 39 The Yogin and the Stoic—two righteous egos who achieve their very considerable results by pretending, systematically, to be somebody else. 1965P. Wylie They both were Naked i. iii. 131 Sitting opposite me on my divan cross-legged as a yogin etc. 1973J. Blofeld Secret & Sublime i. 19 To yogins steeped in the arts of rejuvenation, prolonging life and achieving one of several kinds of immortality, it meant both of these. 1979R. Cassilis Arrow of God iv. vii. 121 A little rent in the seamless garment of self-mastery. On, yogin, heal thyself!
2. = yoga.
1925A. Huxley Let. 25 Feb. (1969) 242 His little book..is a sort of explanation of the ethics of Christianity... Lose one's life in order to gain it... It is the same idea as lies at the bottom of the Yogi system. 1943D. Powell Time to be Born i. 22 He had no pot at all due to his Yogi exercises. 1952‘R. Gordon’ Doctor in House iv. 43 There was another medical student there, a man from St. Mary's who kept tropical fish in a tank in his bedroom and practised Yogi. 1960R. Croft-Cooke Thief i. 9 One day he was in a shop with her when she put her bag down on a chair while she looked at something. I don't know how he got out with it, but then..I'm not a thief. It seemed like Yogi to me, or at least conjuring.
So ˈyogified a. nonce-wd., treated in a yogic manner; yogi-man poet., a devotee of yoga; ˈyogism, ˈyogeeism, the system of yoga or of the yogis; ˈyogist, a yogi.
1881Sinnett Occ. World 27 The ethereal yogeeism which is called Ragi yog. 1881N. & Q. 6th Ser. III. 291 The Indian yogist (or fakeer) Haridas. 1893A. Lang in Daily News 20 Apr. 5/1 He reckons about 90,000 believers in Yogism. 1938L. MacNeice Mod. Poetry v. 78 In T. S. Eliot Hyde is the yogi-man. 1938― Earth Compels 58 It's no go the Yogi-Man, it's no go Blavatsky. a1960E. M. Forster Maurice (1971) 235 Carpenter's yogified mysticism. |