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单词 castle of comedown
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castle of comedown
1. More fully castle of comedown. Something which falls to ruin or is destined to fail. Cf. comedown adj. 1. Obsolete.
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the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > daydream or reverie > [noun]
castle in Spainc1400
reverie1477
brown studyc1555
castle in the skies1576
castle in the air1579
comedown1583
memento1587
towers in the air1599
daydream1651
dream1732
air castle1786
châteaux in air1793
chateau(x) en Espagne1834
cloud-castle1887
pipe dream1890
fantasy1926
the world > existence and causation > existence > substantiality or concreteness > unsubstantiality or abstractness > [noun] > unsubstantiality or lack of substance > something lacking substance
breathc1275
winda1382
vapour1382
cloudc1384
gossamer?a1400
webc1400
comedown1583
bubble1598
anatomy1605
carcass1612
intentional1658
blank1678
ethereality1819
breath bubble1835
1583 H. D. Godlie Treat. 87 Sufficient to haue ouerthrowne your whole castle of comedowne of iustifying by the works of the law and grace.
a1635 R. Sibbes Learned Comm. 2 Cor. i. (1655) xii. 265 Many mistake, and build Castles in the Ayr, comb Downes (as we say).
1682 H. More Annot. Disc. Truth 223 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. The fairest and firmest structures of Philosophical Theorems..will become a Castle of Come-Down, and fall quite to the ground.
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