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Cain2|keɪn|
Also 5–6 Caym, Kaym.
1. a. The proper name of the first fratricide and murderer (Gen. iv.), used descriptively.
c1380Wyclif Tract xxiii. Sel. Wks. III. 348 Þei bilden Caymes Castelis to harme of cuntreis. c1400Ywaine & Gaw. 559 The karl of Kaymes kyn. c1505Dunbar Flyting 513 Cankrit Caym, tryit trowane, Tutiuillus. 1513Douglas æneis viii. Prol. 77 This cuntre is full of Caynis kyne.
b. to raise Cain: see raise v.1 21 b. colloq. (orig. U.S.).
1840Daily Pennant (St. Louis) 2 May (Th.), Why have we every reason to believe that Adam and Eve were both rowdies? Because..they both raised Cain. 1841‘Dow, Jr.’ Short Patent Sermons xxix. 73 They will feel that they have been raising Cain and breaking things. 1852[see raise v.1 21 b]. 1882R. L. Stevenson Treasure Island (1883) iii. 20 If I get the horrors, I'm a man that has lived rough, and I'll raise Cain. 1930J. B. Priestley Angel Pavement vii. 345 If we stand here talking another minute the mistress'll be raising Cain the way she'll say she's destroyed with the draught.
†2. Comb., as Cain-like; Cain-coloured, of the reputed colour of the hair of Cain, to whom, as to Judas Iscariot, a ‘red’ or reddish-yellow beard was attributed.
1598Shakes. Merry W. i. iv. 23 He hath but a little wee-face; with a little yellow Beard: a Caine-colourd Beard. 1656Eirenicon 21 Lay by this Cain-like disposition.
Hence also ˈCainian = Cainite. ˈCainish a., of the temper of Cain. Cainism, the heresy of the Cainites. ˈCainite, (a) one of a sect of heretics in the second century who professed reverence for Cain and other wicked Scriptural characters; (b) a descendant of Cain; also fig. Caiˈnitic a., pertaining to Cain or the Cainites.
1540Coverdale Confut. Standish Pref. Wks. 1844 II. 328 Some spice of Cainish stomach. 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy i. §18 Censuring the opinion of Ambrose as sauouring too strongly of Cainisme and superstition. 1647E. Pagitt Heresiogr. (ed. 4) 59 Possessed with a spirit of scoffing, terming..us..Cainites. 1659Gell Ess. Amendm. Last Transl. Bible 105 The Lord hath given superiority..unto the true Shem and all the Shemites..yea, unto Cain himself and the Cainites if they do well. 1653A. Ross Πανσεβεια (1658) 193 Cainites..worshipped Cain as the author of much goodnesse to mankind. 1657S. Colvil Whig's Supplic. (1695) But straight turned Anabaptists, Quakers..And Mr. Gilbert Burnetans..Helvidians, Cainians. 1685H. More Illustr. 377 Kainish persecutours. 1764A. Maclaine Mosheim's Eccl. Hist. (1844) I. 64/2 The more obscure and less considerable of the Gnostic sects..[as] the Cainites, who treated as saints..Cain, Cora, Dathan, the inhabitants of Sodom, and even the traitor Judas. 1877Dawson Orig. World xii. 255 Intermixture of Sethite and Cainite races. 1882–3Schaff in Relig. Encycl. I. 358 Different turns in the Cainitic history. |