| 释义 |
ˈmuseless, a. rare.
[f. muse n.1 + -less; in imitation of Gr. ἄµουσος, ‘unpolished, inelegant, rude, gross’ (L. & Sc.).]
Without learning; uncultured. Also, uninspired.
1644Milton Areop. (Arb.) 36 It is to be wonder'd how museless and unbookish they were, minding nought but the feats of Warre. 1819Shelley Cyclops 489 He [Cyclops] is coming,.. Drunken, museless, awkward, yelling, Far along his rocky dwelling. 1877Ruskin Fors Clav. lxxiii. 16 The museless cry of the multitude. 1882G. M. Hopkins Let. 4 Nov. (1955) 159 My mind is dull and museless. 1958P. L. Fermor Mani i. 6 Nothing in the grace and the enchantment of all this could remind one of museless and unbookish Sparta.
Hence ˈmuselessness.
1877Ruskin Fors Clav. lxxxiii. 360 That Deadly Muselessness of the Cameronian leaders. |