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‖ Cyclops|ˈsaɪklɒps|
Also Cyclop. Pl. Cyclopes |saɪˈkləʊpiːz|; also Cyclops, Cyclopses.
[a. L. Cyclōps, -ōpem, a. Gr. κύκλωψ lit. ‘round-eyed’, f. κύκλο-ς circle + -ὤψ eye. In It. and Sp. Ciclope, Pg. and F. Cyclope, whence Eng. Cyclop.]
1. One of a race of one-eyed giants in ancient Greek mythology, who forged thunderbolts for Zeus. Hence often used allusively.
(α) sing. Cyclops, pl. Cyclopes; but the latter in early use may be like F. Cyclopes, pl. of Cyclope.
1513Douglas æneis iii. x. 39 A huge peple we se Of Ciclopes cum hurland to the port. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 7 Vnlesse the Epicureans like the Giauntes Cyclopes would..make warre against God. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 234 Such an obdurat Cyclops, to have but one eye for this text. 1802Wordsw. Daisy iv, A little cyclops, with one eye Staring to threaten and defy. 1883Liddell & Scott Gr. Lex. (ed. 7) s.v., In Hesiod Theogony 140, we find three Cyclopes..who forged the thunderbolts for Zeus.
(β) sing. Cyclop, pl. Cyclops. [F. Cyclope, -s.]
1592R. D. Hypnerotomachia 3 b, Achemenides being afraide of the horrible Cyclops. 1602Shakes. Ham. ii. ii. 511. 1697 Dryden Virg. Georg. iv. 245 The Cyclops, at th' Almighty Nod, New Thunder hasten for their angry God. 1725Pope Odyss. ix. 473 The Cyclops all that round him dwell. Ibid. 484 The Cyclop from his den replies. 1819Shelley Cyclops 111 Cyclops, who live in caverns, not in houses. 1855Macaulay Hist. IV. xix. 321 In front of the helmet was a huge glass eye like that of a cyclop.
(γ) pl. Cyclopses.
1681Rycaut Critick 206 What shall I say of so many Cyclopses? 1819Shelley Cyclops 25 The one-eyed children of the Ocean God, The man-destroying Cyclopses.
2. Zool. A genus of small fresh-water copepods, having an eye (apparently single, but really double) situated in the middle of the front of the head.
1849–52Todd Cycl. Anat. IV. 967/1 The metamorphosis of the eyes in..Cyclops. 1860Gosse Rom. Nat. Hist. 63 Tiny cyprides and cyclopes disporting in the umbrageous groves of their world.
3. attrib. and Comb. (Cf. cyclope a.)
1682Dryden Medal 226 Then, Cyclop like, in humane Flesh to deal. 1687Third Coll. Poems, A Warning (1689) 29/1 His Cyclop Priests will make you truckle under. 1803Sarrett New Pict. London 177 A Cyclops pig..because it has only one eye..placed in the middle of the forehead. |