| 单词 | hell pit |
| 释义 | > as lemmashell pit hell pit n. [compare Middle Dutch helleput, helleputte (Dutch helleput), Middle Low German hellepütte] the abyss of hell, a bottomless pit in hell. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] > as pit or abyss hell pitOE pitOE abysmc1350 hell-holec1400 abyssc1460 bisme1483 pota1500 barathrum?1510 bottomless pit1526 limbo-lake1558 OE Glosses to Bella Parisiacae Urbis of Abbo of St. Germain (Harl. 3271) in W. H. Stevenson Early Scholastic Colloquies 103 Sit machia tibi, quo sit ierarchia, neque sit cloaca tibi : gewin þæt sy halig ealdor ne ne sy helle pyt. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 10215 Forr helle pitt niss næfre full. c1450 ( G. Chaucer Bk. Duchess 171 This cave was also as derk As helle-pit overal aboute. 1611 G. H. tr. Anti-Coton 74 The Pope..would be drawne to performe that, which hee ought, in condemning by his Buls to hell pit such murtherers and assassins. 1860 H. E. P. Spofford Circumstance in Atlantic Monthly May 559/2 Only the breath like the vapor from some hell-pit still swathed her. 1993 Art Bull. 75 29/2 Another demon uses a hook to drag the psalmist's enemies towards a hell pit. < as lemmas |
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