单词 | all-eyed |
释义 | all-eyedadj.2 That sees everything; that is always vigilant or watchful.Frequently, esp. in early use, as an epithet of Argus, a primordial giant in Greek mythology, after his typical Greek epithet. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sight and vision > types of vision > [adjective] > having watchful eyes all-eyed1596 narrow-eyed1600 argus-eyed1603 argus-like1663 1596 C. M. First Pt. Nature of Woman iv. sig. C4 Commit a greater charge to my watchful care, then Iupiter to his all eied Argus. 1633 W. Prynne Histrio-mastix i. v. iii. 171 That all-eyed God, who will one day arraigne them for this their grosse effeminacie. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 899 Let that all-eyed Argus [L. Argus ille..totus oculeus] tell. 1748 S. Richardson Clarissa V. ii. 50 Whatever be my luck, thought I, with this all-eyed fair one, any other woman in the world..would be mine upon my own terms before the morning. 1845 R. Howitt Impressions Austral. Felix 207 The all-eyed anxiety which absorbed them on approaching the coast of Australia. 1914 I. Rosenberg Coll. Wks. (1937) 143 Speak to me,..Speak to the all-eyed soul. 1977 L. Hotson Shakespeare by Hilliard iv. 64 In the Schifanoia fresco already mentioned, all-eyed Argus is pictured as Mercury's attribute. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.21596 |
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