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单词 hexaëmeron
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hexaëmeronn.

/hɛksəˈiːmərɒn/
Forms: Also hexameron.
Etymology: Late Latin hexaēmeron (the title of a work by Ambrose) = Greek ἑξαήμερον, neuter of ἑξαήμερος of or in six days, < ἕξ six + ἡμέρα day; ἡ ἑξαήμερος was the title of a work by Basil.
The six days of the creation; a history of the creation, as contained in Genesis; or a treatise thereon, as the works of Basil the Great and Ambrose.
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a1593 W. Harrison MS. Chronol. II. (title) in Descr. Eng. (1877) i. App. i. p. xlvii The hexameron or worke done in those sixe daies wherein the worlde was created.
1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs Pref. 11 His hebdomadal work of the Hexameron Fabrick.
1722 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 3) iii. 259 In the first Constitution of the Expansum or Firmament on the 2d Day of the Hexaemeron there would be Clouds.
1852 C. Wordsworth Occas. Serm. 3rd Ser. 19 Let us not allow our souls to dwell in a sabbath-less Hexameron of earthly care and toil.
1886 W. R. Smith in Encycl. Brit. XXI. 125/2 The older account of the creation in Gen. ii...does not recognize the hexaemeron, and it is doubtful whether the original sketch of Gen. i. distributed creation over six days.

Derivatives

hexaemeric adj. /hɛksəiːˈmɛrɪk/ pertaining to the six days of the creation.
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1895 Athenæum 19 Oct. 535/2 The hexaemeric work of creation.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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