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单词 gabriel
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Gabrieln.

Brit. /ˈɡeɪbrɪəl/, U.S. /ˈɡeɪbriəl/
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Gabriel.
Etymology: < the name of Gabriel (post-classical Latin Gabriel (Vulgate), Hellenistic Greek Γαβριήλ (Septuagint and New Testament), Hebrew Gaḇrī'ēl), one of the archangels (see Daniel 9:21; Luke 1:19, 26).In Gabriel-bell n. with reference to the use of this bell to ring the Angelus (see Angelus n., and compare sense 2 at that entry) and to the biblical story of the Annunciation (see Luke 1:26-38). In Gabriel hounds n. and Gabriel ratchet n. probably with reference to a folk belief that the archangel Gabriel will condemn the souls of the damned at the Last Judgement. Compare gabble ratchet n., which reflects a later folk-etymological alteration. With Gabriel ratchet n. at sense 1a perhaps compare also the following:1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. Gaubertie-shells,..a hobgoblin, who..has been heard to make a loud roaring, accompanied with a barking similar to that of little dogs..and..a clattering resembling that of shells striking against each other. Lanarks.
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a. Gabriel ratchet n. (also gabriel rache, gabriel ratcher) English regional (northern) (in plural and singular) a noise heard in the air said to resemble the sound of a pack of hounds, made by a bird or birds but often attributed to supernatural creatures or the souls of children who have died unbaptized, and thought to presage death or misfortune; (sometimes also) the creature or creatures making this noise. Cf. Gabriel hounds n. at sense 1b, gabble ratchet n.In quot. ?c1475 it is difficult to see how the gloss camalion, otherwise recorded as the name of a plant, but also possibly a variant of chameleon, could refer to this phenomenon or to mythical creatures thought to cause it.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > premonition, presentiment > [noun] > instance of > of evil > foreboder
Gabriel's houndsc888
Gabriel ratchet?c1475
foredoomer1591
forebodera1796
gabble ratchets1862
?c1475 Catholicon Anglicum (BL Add. 15562) f. 53 Gabriel raches [1483 Bl Add. 89074 Gabrielle rache], camalion.
1665 O. Heywood Mem. Mar. in Autobiogr., Diaries, Anecd. & Event Bks. (1883) III. 91 A strange noyse in the aire..called Gabriel-Ratches by this country-people, the noyse is as if a great number of whelps were barking and howling, and tis observed that if any see them the persons that see them dye shortly after.
1677 J. Webster Displaying Supposed Witchcraft iv. 61 These will take..the noise of the wild Swans flying high upon the nights, to be Spirits, or (as they call them here in the North) Gabriel-Ratchets.
1867 J. Harland & T. T. Wilkinson Lancs. Folk-lore i. 167 The Gabriel Raches are supposed to be something like litters of puppies yelping in the air.
1891 J. C. Atkinson Last of Giant-killers 196 He also told me a very great deal about the Gabriel-rachet—or Gaab'rl ratchet, as he sounded the name... He described to me the large glowering eyes of the great silently-flying bird.., its cruel hooked beak, and its ear-piercing scrike.
1913 E. M. Wright Rustic Speech & Folk-lore xii. 195 The Gabriel Ratchets..are spectre dogs whose yelping cry may be heard at dead of night, or in the early morning... By some the sound is believed to be the cry of the restless souls of children who have died unbaptized.
1984 G. Hughes Hawthorn Goddess i. 22 Many claimed later that they had heard during the previous night the eerie whistling known as ‘Gabriel Ratchers’.
b. Gabriel hounds n. (also Gabriel's hounds) originally English regional (northern) creatures, usually birds, whose yelping or howling cries are heard in the air, esp. at night, and sometimes imagined or represented as supernatural hounds or as the souls of children who have died unbaptized, and which are believed to presage death or misfortune; (also) the noise made by these creatures. Cf. Gabriel ratchet n. at sense 1a, gabble ratchet n.
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1686 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Staffs. i. 22 The Colyers will tell you that early in the morning.., they sometimes hear the noise of a pack of hounds in the Air, which has happened so frequently that they have got a name for them, calling them Gabriels hounds, though the more sober and judicious take them only to be Wild-geese, making this noise in their flight.
1807 W. Wordsworth Poems II. 106 He the seven birds hath seen.., Seen the Seven Whistlers in their nightly rounds, And counted them: and oftentimes will start—For overhead are sweeping Gabriel's Hounds.
1851 J. Holland Diurnal Sonnets 346 She had listened to the Gabriel Hounds; Those strange, unearthly and mysterious sounds Which on the ear through murkiest darkness fell.
1868 F. P. Verney Stone Edge xvii. 207 Gabriel's hounds was heard t'other night i' th' air over the Dumble, as comes when folk is nigh to death.
1876 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Gabriel hounds, the flocks of yelping wild geese high in the air, migrating southward in the twilight evenings of autumn, their cry being more audible than the assemblage is visible. As the foreboders of evil, people close their ears and cover their eyes until the phalanx has passed over.
1913 L. Abercrombie Deborah iii. 49 The beagles out of hell are loose in the wind, The Gabriel Hounds are running wild to-night!
1987 Callaloo No. 33. 659 Why you make more noise than Gabriel's hounds..that pack of wild geese, screaming through the air, at the basin of Heaven—those souls of unbaptized children screaming to get in.
2010 M. Sharratt Daughters Witching Hill ix. 147 Wind brewed up in a tempest... It howled down the chimney like the Gabriel Hounds baying for blood.
2. Gabriel-bell n. a church bell used, traditionally in the morning and evening, to ring the Angelus; in later use sometimes understood as a bell rung in the morning to waken the community. Cf. Angelus bell n. at Angelus n. Compounds.Now chiefly in historical contexts.Since pre-Reformation evidence for the term has not been found, the motivation for the coinage is unclear.
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1741 F. Blomefield Hist. Norwich xlii. 661 There were three Bells originally here, and an old Gabriel Bell, which was added as a treble to them.
1852 D. Rock Church of our Fathers III. i. ix. 338 There yet hangs the very bell,—the Gabriel-bell..which the sexton had to ring at morn and evening every day as a bidding to the people..that they should greet our Lady with their five ‘Hail Marys’.
1887 J. C. L. Stahlschmidt Church Bells of Kent 55 The Boughton Aluph bell is a ‘Gabriel’ bell, i.e., one used to ring the morning and evening ‘Ave’ peals upon.
1928 Times 19 Oct. 9/1 Mrs. Samuel was presented with a silver bell to be used as a gong. It is modelled on the Gabriel bell in St Peter Mancroft Church.
1988 D. L. Jeffrey Eng. Spirituality Age Wyclif 10 At dusk the angelus bell (or Gabriel bell, as it was sometimes called) tolled out the knell of parting day... After the night of rest was over, it would ring again..and call worshipers once more to divine service.
2010 R. Martello Midnight Ride, Industr. Dawn v. 161 Church bells served a variety of named functions each week: for example, the ‘Gabriel’ bell woke the community.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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