单词 | eve star |
释义 | eve starn. In later use literary and poetic. Now rare. A star or planet visible in the evening; spec. Venus; = evening star n. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > inferior planet > [noun] > Venus > as evening star evenstarOE Hesperusc1374 eve stara1387 vesper1390 evening star1535 night star1595 Vesperugo1600 shepherd's lamp1827 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 301 Þis Spayne..heet somtyme Hesperia of Espera [read Hespera], the eue sterre [L. stella vespertina]. ?c1400 (c1380) G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (BL Add. 10340) (1868) i. met. v. l. 510 Þe euesterre esperus [L. Hesperos]..is pale by þe morwe at þe rysynge of þe sonne. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 144 Evesterre, esperus, vesper. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Love in W. W. Skeat Chaucerian & Other Pieces (1897) 97 (MED) Him that weneth [read weyveth] the moone for fayrenesse of the eve-sterre. 1772 G. A. Stevens Songs Comic & Satyrical 2 So she sparkled the morn and eve Star. 1841 Ladies' Compan. Aug. 177/1 Gloriously brilliant the eve-star comes forth. 1878 R. Browning Poets Croisic xii There peered May's earliest eve-star. 1960 J. Kerouac Let. 22 Nov. in Sel. Lett. 1957–69 (1999) 275 I'll..get a cabin in the woods too, where..I just admire the same old eve star..which droopeth on Iowa tonight just as ever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387 |
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