单词 | ever-living |
释义 | ever-livingadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of a name, fame, etc.: never to be forgotten or lost; undying, immortal. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > reputation > fame or renown > fame after death > [adjective] > eternally or historically famous ever-livingc1450 immortal?1518 eternized1603 monumental1664 eternalized1830 c1450 Speculum Christiani (Harl. 6580) (1933) 202 (MED) Preciose stones to hys euerlyuynge coroune. 1595 W. Clarke in C. M. Ingleby & L. T. Smith Shakespeare's Cent. Prayse (1879) 15 Everliving praise to her loving Delia. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. iii. 51 That euer-liuing man of Memorie, Henrie the fift. View more context for this quotation a1625 J. Fletcher Humorous Lieut. i. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) sig. Qqq2/2 So many idle houres, as here he loyters, So many ever-living names he loses. 1704 Faction Display'd xiii Those only purchase everliving Fame, That in my Misellany plant their Name. 1770 H. Brooke Fool of Quality V. xvii. 216 The Internity of his ever-living light kindled up an Externity of corporeal irradiation. 1872 J. Morley Voltaire i. 3 The ever-living gifts of Grecian art and architecture and letters. 1920 National Mag. Feb. 544/2 Illuminating the ever-living name and fame of Abraham Lincoln. 1967 Studia Musicologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae 9 309 Is this all the 18th century could say about this everliving character? 2. That lives or will live for ever. ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > continuance or tenacity of life > [adjective] > immortal undeadlyc950 undeathlyOE immortalc1374 undyinga1400 ever-living1514 unmortal1538 never-dying1567 tombless1594 deathless1595 transmortal1932 1514 S. Appulby Fruyte of Redemcyon xvi. sig. C.iiv Lorde Ihesu cryst sone of the euer lyuynge god I laude and gloryfy the. 1541 M. Coverdale tr. H. Bullinger Olde Fayth sig. Fvijv Very God & man the onely and euerlyuyng sauyour. 1599 T. Moffett Silkewormes 46 The Vulture gnawing stil That euer-dying euer-liuing wretch. 1614 W. Raleigh Hist. World i. i. ii. §3. 28 The euer-liuing subiects of his [sc. God's] reward and punishment. 1678 R. Cudworth tr. Philo in True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. iv. 472 The most excellent Fulcrum of the Soul, the perswasion of the Everliving God. a1727 I. Newton Opticks (1730) iii. i. 379 The Instinct of Brutes and Insects, can be the effect of nothing else than the Wisdom and Skill of a powerful ever-living Agent. 1778 J. Hollier Explan. Lord's Prayer 56 O Eternal and ever living Lord God! 1820 P. B. Shelley Ode to Naples 127 Hear ye the march as of the Earth-born Forms Arrayed against the everliving Gods? 1870 W. C. Bryant tr. Homer Iliad II. xv. 77 She found the ever-living gods Assembled in the halls of Jupiter. 1909 W. James Unveiled Heart 70 Almighty and Everliving God,..it is Thy glory to conceal Thy workings. 1916 J. Joyce Portrait of Artist v. 260 A priest of the eternal imagination, transmuting the daily bread of experience into the radiant body of everliving life. 2003 A. Bowen & P. Garnsey tr. Lactantius Divine Instit. vii. 410 The soul does not perish or disintegrate, but abides for ever because it seeks and loves the ever-living God. B. n. A person who is ever-living; spec. God. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > [noun] > as everlasting everlastinga1382 the Eternal1582 ever-living1601 the Eterne1613 the Interminable1671 ever-present1838 timeless1892 1601 N. Breton Longing Blessed Heart sig. F4 While the hand of heauen is giuing, Comfort from the euerliuing? 1849 G. Harris Adherence to Relig. Truth 11 He is the everliving, the I Am. 1919 A. S. Raleigh Hermetic Art ii. iii. 51 The ever-living is not the same as the Eternal. 1989 S. R. L. Clark Civil Peace & Sacred Order i. 18 We may, by lengthy strivings and the grace of the everliving, put aside even the most deeply rooted of our prejudices. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.c1450 |
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