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单词 cornucopia
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cornucopian.

/ˌkɔːnjuːˈkəʊpɪə/
Forms: Also cornucopiæ.
Etymology: A late Latin form, written as one word, of the earlier cornū cōpiae ‘horn of plenty’; fabled to be the horn of the goat Amalthea by which the infant Zeus was suckled; the symbol of fruitfulness and plenty.
a. The horn of plenty; a goat's horn represented in art as overflowing with flowers, fruit, and corn.
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horn of plenty (also abundancec1595
the mind > possession > supply > [noun] > source of supply > abundant > horn of plenty
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1592 R. Greene Maiden's Dreame in Poems 133 [Hospitality] With her cornucopia in her fist.
1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 3 Men talke of Cornu-copia, that it had all things necessary for foode in it.
c1639 T. Dekker & J. Ford Sun's-darling (1656) iv. 32 When Plenty (Summers daughter) empties daily Her cornucopia, fill'd with choisest viands.
1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 337 Clandlestiks of pure gold, made like Cornucopias.
1782 H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Painting (ed. 3) V. 117 Small head in an oval frame, with cornucopiæs and stone-work.
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature IV. 197 Ceres..with her bounteous cornucopia.
1872 C. H. Spurgeon Treasury of David III. Ps. lxviii. 9 The Lord, as from a cornucopia, shook out blessings upon it [the earth].
1878 H. W. Bates Central Amer. iii. 24.
b. An ornamental vessel or receptacle shaped like the horn of plenty.
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1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators II. 267 A flagon or two of wine, and a golden cornucopia of fruit and flowers.
c. figurative. An overflowing stock or store.
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the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > abundance > [noun] > an abundance
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1611 T. Coryate Crudities To Rdr. sig. b2v Fertill territories replenished with a very Cornucopia of al manner of commodities.
1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. i. 42 That County [sc. Cornwall] is the Cornu-copia of Saints.
1727 J. Swift Corinna in Misc. Last vol. ii. 228 Her Common-Place-Book..Of Scandal..a Cornucopia.
1853 C. Brontë Villette II. xix. 47 My sympathy desired to keep its cornucopia replenished.
d. humorously. The ‘horn’ of cuckoldry.
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1600 J. Lane Tom Tel-Troths Message 675 With cornucopia, Cornewall and the horne Which their bad wiues bid from their bed be sent.
1878 J. W. Ebsworth Bagford Ballads 294 The ironical praise of Cuckolds..may be studied with advantage by mature students, who do not believe that the Cornucopia was a new ornament.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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