单词 | domdaniel |
释义 | Domdanieln. A fabled submarine hall where a magician or sorcerer met with his disciples: placed by Cazotte ‘under the sea near Tunis’, by Southey ‘under the roots of the ocean’; used by Carlyle in the sense of ‘infernal cave’, ‘den of iniquity’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > mental image, idea, or fancy > realm of imagination > [noun] > imaginary place > submarine hall Domdaniel1801 1801 R. Southey Thalaba II. xii. 318 The Domdaniel rocked Thro' all its thundering vaults. 1809 Ld. Byron Eng. Bards & Sc. Reviewers 213 Next see tremendous Thalaba come on..Domdaniel's dread destroyer. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 73 Spain was as a black Domdaniel. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches I. 111 A grisly Law Pluto,..kind of Infernal King, Chief Enchanter in the Domdaniel of Attorneys. 1845 T. Carlyle in O. Cromwell Lett. & Speeches II. 380 Hurled,..into the dark Domdaniel of Spanish Iniquity in the far West. 1888 Edinb. Rev. Oct. 408 At ease not in Zion only but in Domdaniel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1897; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1801 |
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