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单词 hippocrenian
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Hippocrenianadj.

Brit. /ˌhɪpəˈkriːnɪən/, U.S. /ˌhɪpəˈkriniən/
Forms: 1600s Hipocrenian, 1600s Hypocrenean, 1600s Hypocrinian, 1600s– Hippocrenian, 1900s– Hippocrenean.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Hippocrene n., -ian suffix.
Etymology: < Hippocrene n. + -ian suffix. Compare post-classical Latin Hippocrenaeus (5th cent.).With forms in -ean compare -ean suffix.
poetic and literary. Now rare.
In allusive use: designating a source of poetic inspiration; of or relating to poetry; poetic. Cf. Hippocrene n.The water of the Hippocrene spring was believed to imbue the drinker with poetic inspiration.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > [adjective]
poetical1447
Parnassian1565
Pegasean1590
Hippocrenian1607
Dircaean1730
poetic1731
the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > inventive or creative faculty > creative genius > [adjective] > inspired
imaginative1509
aspired1597
Hippocrenian1607
wingy1643
afflatitious1671
afflated1835
1607 T. Walkington Optick Glasse sig. A To quench thy learned thirst I meant to draine The Hippocrenian Fountaine of my braine.
1630 Tincker of Turvey Ded. Ep. sig. A3 I haue..neuer gulp'd downe such Hypocrenean Liquor in all my life.
1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 103 She saw you pluck a lawrel bough: A Third depos'd, you climb'd the hill. And drank the Hippocrenian rill.
1847 J. C. Price Don Paez 2 Although the Hippocrenian Pool hath been Troubled full oft by abler sons of song, My humble muse will quaff the dregs.
1884 M. Moore Raphael's ‘Apollo & Marsyas’ 91 His Hippocrenian draughts inspire him but the slang of the Turf.
1902 C. Binkley Sonnets & Songs 60 The yea and nay can never lead aright, Nor judgment taste the Hippocrenean rill.
1973 Jrnl. Relig. 53 145 This volume..is an important Pegasusian third step in the proper Hippocrenean direction.
1987 E. C. Curtsinger Muse H. James viii. 96 James mixes a blessed and Hippocrenian ink with the waters of the garden and of fairyland to make the other ink—the sacred fluid of fiction.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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