Deliann.¹adj.¹

Brit.

/ˈdiːlɪən/, U.S.

/ˈdiliən/

Forms: 1500s Delyan, 1500s Delyen, 1500s– Delian.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin Dēlius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < classical Latin Dēlius of or relating to Delos ( < ancient Greek Δήλιος of or relating to Delos < Δῆλος Delos, an island in the Grecian archipelago + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix, originally after Middle French, French Delien, noun (1534 in the passage translated in quot. 1550 at sense A., or earlier).

A. n.¹

Ancient History. A native or inhabitant of the island of Delos in the Cyclades archipelago; spec. a member of an ancient Ionian people who occupied the island from c950 to 166 bc.Frequently with reference to the god Apollo who, according to legend, was born on Delos and to whom the island was considered sacred.

ΚΠ

1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War viii. xv. f. ccxxiii^v They had greate feare of him and of his crueltie for the experyence, whyche they hadde sene hym vse agaynste the Delyens [Fr. Deliens].

1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes of David v. 299 The Delian [sc. Apollo] gave not so good aime, When Thetis son was slaine.

1790 W. Mitford Hist. Greece II. xvii. 369 The cruel removal of the Delians from their island had been undertaken as a work of piety, necessary toward obtaining the favor of the deity.

1916 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 27 160 The gods appealed to are Pan, the Arcadian, and above all Apollo, the Delian.

2008 R. E. Meagher & E. P. Neave Anc. Greece 328 There were three temples dedicated to Apollo, the grandest being the last and ultimately unfinished Temple of the Delians.

B. adj.¹

Of or belonging to the island of Delos.Sometimes in the Delian God, with reference to Apollo (see quots. 1565 and 1879, and cf. note at sense A.); in quot. 1623 with allusion to Apollo and his twin the goddess Artemis.

ΚΠ

1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 7 The Delian God [L. Delius] but late before surprisde with passynge pryde.

1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Delian twins, the Sunne and Moone.

1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 196 By the Delian coast I voyag'd, leader of a warrior host.

1879 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 176 'Tis our lot To pass more swiftly than the Delian God.

2014 New Yorker 14 Apr. 35/2 Athens had gone from being a regional power to the head of a strategic alliance known to historians as the Delian League (after the island of Delos, the site of its treasury).

Compounds

Delian problem n. Mathematics the problem of finding a cube having a volume exactly double that of a cube whose side length is known; esp. by means of geometrical methods that employ only a straight-edge and a compass.Solving the Delian problem is algebraically equivalent to constructing a line segment whose length is the cube root of two. Although solutions to the problem have existed since the Classical era, it was proved in 1837 that it could not be solved by means of straight-edge and compass. [One classical account, attributed to Eratosthenes, states that the oracle at Delphi instructed the citizens of Delos to double the size of Apollo's altar, which was cubical, in order to end a plague.]

ΚΠ

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Duplication They applied themselves..to seek the Duplicature of the Cube, which hence forwards was call'd the Delian Problem.

1845 R. Potts Euclid's Elements Geom. Introd. p. xix The commentary on the Sphere and Cylinder contains ten various methods of solving the celebrated Delian problem, which are of little importance in the present state of mathematical science.

2014 E. Maor & E. Jost Beautiful Geom. xxv. 81/2 The Delian problem..was not the only problem that couldn't be solved with Euclidean tools.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

Delianadj.²n.²

Brit.

/ˈdiːlɪən/, U.S.

/ˈdiliən/

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Delius , -an suffix.

Etymology: < the name of Frederick Delius (1862–1934), English composer + -an suffix.

A. adj.²

Of or relating to Frederick Delius or his works; resembling or reminiscent of the music of Delius, esp. in the use of freely mixed harmonies and sensuous orchestration expressive of melancholy or nostalgic emotion.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [adjective] > specific composer

Purcellian1698

Handelian1770

Rossinian1823

Mozartian1828

Weberian1830

Mendelssohnian1851

Offenbachian1857

Schubertian1866

Mozart-like1870

Wagnerian1873

Brahmsite1878

Beethovenish1879

Meyerbeerian1880

Wagneresque1884

Brahmsian1887

Dvořakian1888

Mendelssohnic1889

Beethovenian1890

Lisztian1890

Elgarian1906

Puccinian1906

Palestrinian1908

Berliozian1910

Straussian1910

Schoenbergian1912

Pucciniesque1917

Chopinesque1920

Ravelian1924

Delian1925

Beethovenized1927

Rachmaninovian1927

Bartokian1929

Sibelian1935

Webernish1938

Mahlerian1939

Hindemithian1941

Bachian1945

Tchaikovskian1945

Metastasian1947

Monteverdian1947

Schumannesque1947

Stravinskian1947

Verdian1947

Webernesque1947

Mahlerish1949

Vivaldian1952

Beethovenesque1955

Meyerbeerish1962

1925 Sat. Rev. 11 Apr. 385/1 The Delian Mode... During the performance of Delius's ‘Mass of Life’..I seemed to detect beneath the pumped-up enthusiasm a sense of honest boredom.

1958 B. James in P. Gammond Duke Ellington ii. 149 Delian harmony has become the stock-in-trade of modern popular music by an odd accident which, I am convinced, provokes a smile of..amusement from the ghost of Delius... Some of Ellington's reflective pieces have a distinctly Delian flavour of nostalgia and bitter-sweetness.

1996 Independent (Nexis) 9 Feb. (Classical Music section) 14 His music has a Delian feeling for rhapsody—sure sign of a restless soul.

2017 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 9 Mar. 32 Horns and trumpets interchanging, Delian birdsongs, singing cellos in the delightful concluding State Ball.

B. n.²

An admirer or student of Frederick Delius or his works.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of specific composer

Handelian1762

Mozartian1838

Wagnerite1855

Brahmsite1881

Wagnerian1882

Wagnerist1891

Savoyard1893

Brahmsian1894

Bachian1920

Schoenbergian1920

Purcellian1922

Bartokian1923

Stravinskyite1924

Stravinskian1925

Mahlerite1926

Schubertian1928

Delian1933

Tchaikovskian1937

Beethovenian1947

Lisztian1947

Schumannite1947

Berliozian1951

Ravelian1951

Rachmaninovian1952

Hindemithian1954

Mahlerian1955

Mozart-lover1959

Straussian1959

Elgarian1972

Verdian1976

Dvořakian1977

Vivaldian1978

1933 Musical Times 74 261/1 His is emphatically not the temperament to do justice to Delius, and I strongly advise musicians in general and Delians in particular to attend the concert of the London Philharmonic Orchestra on March 5, at Queen's Hall.

1962 Observer 8 Apr. 28/3 Our Delians are in full bloom this spring. At Bradford on Tuesday they were out in force for Sadler's Wells' new production of ‘A Village Romeo and Juliet’ and gave it a rapturous reception.

2012 Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. Generally, The Walk to the Paradise Garden is all we hear of Delius's fourth opera,..and, to be honest, it's all we ever need to hear. Committed Delians would disagree, of course.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	delian
释义	Deliann.¹adj.¹ Brit. /ˈdiːlɪən/, U.S. /ˈdiliən/ Forms: 1500s Delyan, 1500s Delyen, 1500s– Delian. Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with an English element; originally modelled on a French lexical item. Etymons: Latin Dēlius , -an suffix. Etymology: < classical Latin Dēlius of or relating to Delos ( < ancient Greek Δήλιος of or relating to Delos < Δῆλος Delos, an island in the Grecian archipelago + -ιος , suffix forming adjectives) + -an suffix, originally after Middle French, French Delien, noun (1534 in the passage translated in quot. 1550 at sense A., or earlier). A. n.¹ Ancient History. A native or inhabitant of the island of Delos in the Cyclades archipelago; spec. a member of an ancient Ionian people who occupied the island from c950 to 166 bc.Frequently with reference to the god Apollo who, according to legend, was born on Delos and to whom the island was considered sacred. ΚΠ 1550 T. Nicolls tr. Thucydides Hist. Peloponnesian War viii. xv. f. ccxxiii^v They had greate feare of him and of his crueltie for the experyence, whyche they hadde sene hym vse agaynste the Delyens [Fr. Deliens]. 1638 R. Brathwait Psalmes of David v. 299 The Delian [sc. Apollo] gave not so good aime, When Thetis son was slaine. 1790 W. Mitford Hist. Greece II. xvii. 369 The cruel removal of the Delians from their island had been undertaken as a work of piety, necessary toward obtaining the favor of the deity. 1916 Harvard Stud. Classical Philol. 27 160 The gods appealed to are Pan, the Arcadian, and above all Apollo, the Delian. 2008 R. E. Meagher & E. P. Neave Anc. Greece 328 There were three temples dedicated to Apollo, the grandest being the last and ultimately unfinished Temple of the Delians. B. adj.¹ Of or belonging to the island of Delos.Sometimes in the Delian God, with reference to Apollo (see quots. 1565 and 1879, and cf. note at sense A.); in quot. 1623 with allusion to Apollo and his twin the goddess Artemis. ΚΠ 1565 A. Golding tr. Ovid Fyrst Fower Bks. Metamorphosis i. f. 7 The Delian God [L. Delius] but late before surprisde with passynge pryde. 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Delian twins, the Sunne and Moone. 1725 W. Broome in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey II. vi. 196 By the Delian coast I voyag'd, leader of a warrior host. 1879 ‘G. Eliot’ College Breakfast Party in Macmillan's Mag. July 176 'Tis our lot To pass more swiftly than the Delian God. 2014 New Yorker 14 Apr. 35/2 Athens had gone from being a regional power to the head of a strategic alliance known to historians as the Delian League (after the island of Delos, the site of its treasury). Compounds Delian problem n. Mathematics the problem of finding a cube having a volume exactly double that of a cube whose side length is known; esp. by means of geometrical methods that employ only a straight-edge and a compass.Solving the Delian problem is algebraically equivalent to constructing a line segment whose length is the cube root of two. Although solutions to the problem have existed since the Classical era, it was proved in 1837 that it could not be solved by means of straight-edge and compass. [One classical account, attributed to Eratosthenes, states that the oracle at Delphi instructed the citizens of Delos to double the size of Apollo's altar, which was cubical, in order to end a plague.] ΚΠ 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Duplication They applied themselves..to seek the Duplicature of the Cube, which hence forwards was call'd the Delian Problem. 1845 R. Potts Euclid's Elements Geom. Introd. p. xix The commentary on the Sphere and Cylinder contains ten various methods of solving the celebrated Delian problem, which are of little importance in the present state of mathematical science. 2014 E. Maor & E. Jost Beautiful Geom. xxv. 81/2 The Delian problem..was not the only problem that couldn't be solved with Euclidean tools. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). Delianadj.²n.² Brit. /ˈdiːlɪən/, U.S. /ˈdiliən/ Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Delius , -an suffix. Etymology: < the name of Frederick Delius (1862–1934), English composer + -an suffix. A. adj.² Of or relating to Frederick Delius or his works; resembling or reminiscent of the music of Delius, esp. in the use of freely mixed harmonies and sensuous orchestration expressive of melancholy or nostalgic emotion. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > composing music > composer > [adjective] > specific composer Purcellian1698 Handelian1770 Rossinian1823 Mozartian1828 Weberian1830 Mendelssohnian1851 Offenbachian1857 Schubertian1866 Mozart-like1870 Wagnerian1873 Brahmsite1878 Beethovenish1879 Meyerbeerian1880 Wagneresque1884 Brahmsian1887 Dvořakian1888 Mendelssohnic1889 Beethovenian1890 Lisztian1890 Elgarian1906 Puccinian1906 Palestrinian1908 Berliozian1910 Straussian1910 Schoenbergian1912 Pucciniesque1917 Chopinesque1920 Ravelian1924 Delian1925 Beethovenized1927 Rachmaninovian1927 Bartokian1929 Sibelian1935 Webernish1938 Mahlerian1939 Hindemithian1941 Bachian1945 Tchaikovskian1945 Metastasian1947 Monteverdian1947 Schumannesque1947 Stravinskian1947 Verdian1947 Webernesque1947 Mahlerish1949 Vivaldian1952 Beethovenesque1955 Meyerbeerish1962 1925 Sat. Rev. 11 Apr. 385/1 The Delian Mode... During the performance of Delius's ‘Mass of Life’..I seemed to detect beneath the pumped-up enthusiasm a sense of honest boredom. 1958 B. James in P. Gammond Duke Ellington ii. 149 Delian harmony has become the stock-in-trade of modern popular music by an odd accident which, I am convinced, provokes a smile of..amusement from the ghost of Delius... Some of Ellington's reflective pieces have a distinctly Delian flavour of nostalgia and bitter-sweetness. 1996 Independent (Nexis) 9 Feb. (Classical Music section) 14 His music has a Delian feeling for rhapsody—sure sign of a restless soul. 2017 Birmingham Post (Nexis) 9 Mar. 32 Horns and trumpets interchanging, Delian birdsongs, singing cellos in the delightful concluding State Ball. B. n.² An admirer or student of Frederick Delius or his works. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > music appreciation > music lover > [noun] > of specific composer Handelian1762 Mozartian1838 Wagnerite1855 Brahmsite1881 Wagnerian1882 Wagnerist1891 Savoyard1893 Brahmsian1894 Bachian1920 Schoenbergian1920 Purcellian1922 Bartokian1923 Stravinskyite1924 Stravinskian1925 Mahlerite1926 Schubertian1928 Delian1933 Tchaikovskian1937 Beethovenian1947 Lisztian1947 Schumannite1947 Berliozian1951 Ravelian1951 Rachmaninovian1952 Hindemithian1954 Mahlerian1955 Mozart-lover1959 Straussian1959 Elgarian1972 Verdian1976 Dvořakian1977 Vivaldian1978 1933 Musical Times 74 261/1 His is emphatically not the temperament to do justice to Delius, and I strongly advise musicians in general and Delians in particular to attend the concert of the London Philharmonic Orchestra on March 5, at Queen's Hall. 1962 Observer 8 Apr. 28/3 Our Delians are in full bloom this spring. At Bradford on Tuesday they were out in force for Sadler's Wells' new production of ‘A Village Romeo and Juliet’ and gave it a rapturous reception. 2012 Times (Nexis) 27 Sept. Generally, The Walk to the Paradise Garden is all we hear of Delius's fourth opera,..and, to be honest, it's all we ever need to hear. Committed Delians would disagree, of course. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹adj.¹1550adj.²n.²1925
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Compounds

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