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单词 dame nature
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Dame Nature
a. Prefixed as a title to the name of a lady or woman of rank; = Lady, Mistress, Miss. Now only figurative in personifications, as Dame Fortune, Dame Nature.
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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > title > title or form of address for persons of rank > [noun] > for woman of rank > for names of goddesses or personifications
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the world > existence and causation > existence > materiality > [noun] > nature > personified as a female being
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c1305 Saints' Lives in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 71 Tuei maidenes clene ynou hire douȝtren were also Dame Margerie and dame Alice..Dame Mabille þe gode moder þis children louede ynou.
c1386 G. Chaucer Man of Law's Tale 151 The Emperours doghter dame Custance.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 23719 Dame [Gött. Dam] fortune turnes þan hir quele.
1413 J. Lydgate Pilgr. of Sowle (1859) i. i. 1 The noble worthy lady dame Misericord.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 114 Me thocht dame Fortoun..Stude me beforne.
1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 119 Alexander king of Scottes maryed dame Jane the sister of king Henry.
1593 [see sense 2a].
1600 F. Thynne Emblemes & Epigr. (1876) 59 Dame Lais is a puritane.
1669 A. Browne Ars Pictoria (1675) 14 Dame Nature is extremely Various in her Representations.
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Dame Nature
b. Usually with capital initial. This power personified as a female being. Frequently as Dame Nature or Mother Nature.
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c1390 G. Chaucer Physician's Tale 9 Nature hath with souereyn diligence Yformed hire in so greet excellence As thogh she wolde seyn, ‘lo! I, nature, Thus kan I forme and peynte a creature.’
c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) i. 1588 (MED) Þe whyte with þe rede..So Ioyned wer..By thempres þat callyd is Nature.
c1450 (c1375) G. Chaucer Anelida & Arcite 80 Nature had a joye her to behelde.
1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde i. xiv. 43 Without nature may nothinge growe, and by her haue alle thinges created lyf.
c1500 (?a1475) Assembly of Gods (1896) 1381 (MED) That fylde thus rewlyd Reson with Sadnes, Mawgre Dame Nature for all her carnall myght.
a1525 (c1448) R. Holland Bk. Howlat l. 32 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 96 Yir sauoruss seidis War nurist be dame natur.
1545 T. Raynald in tr. E. Roesslin Byrth of Mankynde i. sig. H.v Wherfore prudent lady nature ful wysely hath prouided..a continual course and resort of blud.
c1580 ( tr. Bk. Alexander (1927) III. ii. 5020 Graues..waxis grene As Nature, throw hir craftis kene, Schroudis thameself with thare floures.
1602 J. Brereton Briefe Relation Discouerie Virginia 8 Euen the most wooddy places..doe grow so distinct and apart, one tree from another, vpon greene grassie ground..as if Nature would shew herselfe aboue her power, artificiall.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 14 Flowres which only Dame Nature trauels with.
1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. viii. 272 How dame Nature came thus to miscarry in her plastics.
1718 I. Watts Hymn i Nature with open volume stands, To spread her Maker's praise abroad.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 600 Some note of Nature's music from his lips.
1838 Penny Cycl. X. 252/2 Nature with her burning sun, her stilled and pent-up wind.
1860 J. Tyndall Glaciers of Alps i. xxvii. 205 In the application of her own principles, Nature often transcends the human imagination.
1881 Spectator 22 Jan. 119 Dame Nature arose... She ‘Boycotted’ London from Kew to Mile End.
1928 Garden & Home Builder Aug. 572/3 Dame Nature is so careful to preserve this whole heritage intact that this process of cell division..is a fine example of scrupulously exact partition of materials.
1962 R. E. Fitch Odyssey of Self-centred Self iv. 129 We reject the Father God, and turn to Mother Nature.
1990 Health Guardian May 3/2 Would Mother Nature..ever have anticipated the multitude of environmental stresses that modern urban society causes to be imposed on us?
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