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Pisgah|ˈpɪzgə|
[a. Heb. Piṣgāh ‘cleft’.]
The name of a mountain east of Jordan, whence Moses was allowed to view the Promised Land (Deut. iii. 27); hence used allusively, esp. attrib., as Pisgah glance, Pisgah prospect, Pisgah sight, Pisgah view.
[1605W. Symonds (title) Pisgah Evangelica By the Method of the Reuelation, presenting..those Cananites ouer whom..Iesus Christ and his..Church shall triumph.] 1650Fuller (title) Pisgah Sight of Palestine. 1701Norris Ideal World i. iii. 133 The top of our philosophic Pisgah, whence the contemplative eye is saluted with the..prospect of a bright and glorious world. 1829Scott Diary 7 Mar. in Lockhart, This extrication of my affairs, though only a Pisgah prospect, occupies my mind. 1865Grote Plato I. xvi. 472 We get only a Pisgah view of our promised adviser. |