death lightn.

Brit.

/ˈdɛθ lʌɪt/, U.S.

/ˈdɛθ ˌlaɪt/

Forms:

α. Scottish 1700s– dead light, 1800s– deid licht.

β. 1700s– death light.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., light n.¹

Etymology: < death n. (compare forms at that entry) + light n.¹ With use in sense 1 compare death fire n. 1.The (Scots) α. forms in sense 1 probably reflect β. forms at death n., although perhaps compare dead n. or dead adj. 8.

1. A mysterious light supposed to be seen floating or flickering in the air around a corpse, in a graveyard, etc.; a phosphorescent light superstitiously regarded as an omen of death, a corpse candle. Cf. death fire n. 1, death candle n., death-flame n. at death n. Compounds 2.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > light appearing over corpse

death fire1765

death-flame1806

death light1823

α.

1787 R. Burns Let. 2 Aug. (1985) I. 135 She had..the largest collection in the county, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, [etc.].

1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Introd. 21 Dead-lights glimmering through the night.

1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters ix. 168 The many floating Highland stories of spectral dead-lights and wild supernatural sounds, seen and heard by nights in lonely places of sepulture.

1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat ii. i. 154 It wasna natural..maist peetifu' in a callant like him, wi' the deid-licht shinin' already in the blue een o' him.

1916 M. Maclean Songs Roving Celt 38 There was dool in the deid-licht's lowe yestreen, An' the omen spak' tae my hert o' strife, For it bodes nae guid, I ween.

1998 L. Forbes Turning Fresh Eye 18 A'thing unco quaet—deil's wark doon the wynd Syne, ower the causey, tae yer frichtit een The gantin Palace wa', rowed in deid-licht.

β. 1792 Monthly Rev. Nov. 352 Also a wonderful Relation of Corpse Candles, or Death Lights, in Wales.1823 C. B. Sheridan in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 105 A death-light that hovers o'er Liberty's grave.1897 F. Podmore Stud. Psychical Res. xi. 340 Of symbolic hallucinations the form most widely and frequently attested is no doubt the death-lights. These lights..are often said to appear on the route subsequently taken by the funeral, or to hover round a spot where the coffin is afterwards laid.1922 Kentucky Med. Jrnl. 20 290/2 He..was worried because of a light which appeared in his room on the wall; he termed it a ‘deathlight’, and sat up all night for fear it would injure him.1958 W. T. Scott Dark Sister 77 This waking dream of a death-light, this waking nightmare of silver horses.1999 L. Seafield Sc. Ghosts (2001) 24 Sightings of death lights..were quite commonly reported.

2. A light kept burning in the room of a person who is dying or has recently died. Now rare.

ΚΠ

1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 244/2 The silent chamber of Liesby, where no one lingered now but the hireling watchers, with their solitary deathlight.

a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 146 The ‘two candles’..reserved..to be her own death-lights.

1889 R. J. Burdette in C. Morris Half-hours with Best Humorous Authors II. 99 He turned the lamp down until its feeble ray shone dimly as a death-light.

1955 J. E. De Young Village Life in Mod. Thailand iii. 69 A homemade oil lamp or wax candle is kept burning at the head of the corpse or coffin... The villager..holds firmly to his own folk belief that the ‘death light’ is to guide the soul.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	death light
释义	death lightn. Brit. /ˈdɛθ lʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈdɛθ ˌlaɪt/ Forms: α. Scottish 1700s– dead light, 1800s– deid licht. β. 1700s– death light. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: death n., light n.¹ Etymology: < death n. (compare forms at that entry) + light n.¹ With use in sense 1 compare death fire n. 1.The (Scots) α. forms in sense 1 probably reflect β. forms at death n., although perhaps compare dead n. or dead adj. 8. 1. A mysterious light supposed to be seen floating or flickering in the air around a corpse, in a graveyard, etc.; a phosphorescent light superstitiously regarded as an omen of death, a corpse candle. Cf. death fire n. 1, death candle n., death-flame n. at death n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > ghost or phantom > [noun] > light appearing over corpse death fire1765 death-flame1806 death light1823 α. 1787 R. Burns Let. 2 Aug. (1985) I. 135 She had..the largest collection in the county, of tales and songs concerning devils, ghosts, fairies, brownies, witches, warlocks, spunkies, kelpies, elf-candles, dead-lights, wraiths, apparitions, [etc.]. 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake Introd. 21 Dead-lights glimmering through the night. 1854 H. Miller Schools & Schoolmasters ix. 168 The many floating Highland stories of spectral dead-lights and wild supernatural sounds, seen and heard by nights in lonely places of sepulture. 1895 S. R. Crockett Bog-myrtle & Peat ii. i. 154 It wasna natural..maist peetifu' in a callant like him, wi' the deid-licht shinin' already in the blue een o' him. 1916 M. Maclean Songs Roving Celt 38 There was dool in the deid-licht's lowe yestreen, An' the omen spak' tae my hert o' strife, For it bodes nae guid, I ween. 1998 L. Forbes Turning Fresh Eye 18 A'thing unco quaet—deil's wark doon the wynd Syne, ower the causey, tae yer frichtit een The gantin Palace wa', rowed in deid-licht. β. 1792 Monthly Rev. Nov. 352 Also a wonderful Relation of Corpse Candles, or Death Lights, in Wales.1823 C. B. Sheridan in J. Baillie Coll. of Poems 105 A death-light that hovers o'er Liberty's grave.1897 F. Podmore Stud. Psychical Res. xi. 340 Of symbolic hallucinations the form most widely and frequently attested is no doubt the death-lights. These lights..are often said to appear on the route subsequently taken by the funeral, or to hover round a spot where the coffin is afterwards laid.1922 Kentucky Med. Jrnl. 20 290/2 He..was worried because of a light which appeared in his room on the wall; he termed it a ‘deathlight’, and sat up all night for fear it would injure him.1958 W. T. Scott Dark Sister 77 This waking dream of a death-light, this waking nightmare of silver horses.1999 L. Seafield Sc. Ghosts (2001) 24 Sightings of death lights..were quite commonly reported. 2. A light kept burning in the room of a person who is dying or has recently died. Now rare. ΚΠ 1834 Tait's Edinb. Mag. New Ser. 1 244/2 The silent chamber of Liesby, where no one lingered now but the hireling watchers, with their solitary deathlight. a1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) I. 146 The ‘two candles’..reserved..to be her own death-lights. 1889 R. J. Burdette in C. Morris Half-hours with Best Humorous Authors II. 99 He turned the lamp down until its feeble ray shone dimly as a death-light. 1955 J. E. De Young Village Life in Mod. Thailand iii. 69 A homemade oil lamp or wax candle is kept burning at the head of the corpse or coffin... The villager..holds firmly to his own folk belief that the ‘death light’ is to guide the soul. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1787
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