单词 | anachorism |
释义 | anachorismn. The action or an act of situating something in the wrong place; an error in geography; something belonging to another place. Often coupled with anachronism. Cf. anatopism n. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > a land or country > [noun] > foreign land > a foreign thing stranger1578 anachorism1671 foreigner1677 1671 C. Trenchfield Cap of Gray Hairs 136 They hate Anachorism, and can with no patience indure to be mew'd up till midnight, while you, it may be, are clubbing it at a Tavern. 1832 Philol. Museum 1 456 Giving his imaginary subjects Greek names and forms, he transferred them to Roman scenes; which he could do..since the ancients..were not under the same constraint as we are to be pedantic with regard even to real anachronisms and anachorisms. 1849 N. Amer. Rev. July 210 Though a poet should make the bobolink sing in Attica, the anachorism is nothing, provided he can only make it truly sing so that we can hear it. 1917 M. Switzer Satire & Song 92 Never having been..any farther East than Patchogue, nor having dipped very deep into Oriental literature, his poem is full of anachorisms. 2000 Jrnl. Pacific Hist. 35 11 The notion of a centralised Tongan state..is neither an anachronism nor an anachorism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1671 |
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