| 释义 |
ˈSenecal, a. Now only in allusion to Chapman's use (see quot. 1612).
[f. Seneca + -al1.]
Characteristic of, or conformable to the principles of the Stoic philosopher L. Annæus Seneca (died a.d. 65). Also as n.: a writer of drama in the Senecan manner; spec., one of a group of early seventeenth-century playwrights (see quot. 1926).
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 102 Euery word when it comes to a pragmaticall practise, hath close couched in it the energy of a Senecall sentence. 1612Chapman Rev. Bussy d'Ambois iv. iv. 42 In short, this Senecal man is found in him,..To whom the day and fortune equal are..Fix'd in himself, he still is one to all. 1926T. S. Eliot in Times Lit. Suppl. 9 Dec. 906/3 In the effort to ‘place’ Davies, who appears anomalous, critics have compared him..to the Senecals, to Chapman and Daniel and Greville... The type of his thought..separates him from the Senecals. 1934H. Ellis Chapman 62 Chapman often refers to Seneca and the ‘Senecal men’, and he was also influenced by Epictetus. 1954E. Rees Tragedies of George Chapman iv. 114 Chapman was too much of a humanist to forget that even a ‘Senecal man’ is human. |