| 单词 | house god | 
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse god   house god  n. a household god; (in early use spec. in plural) the Roman gods believed to protect or watch over a household, the lares and penates.				 [In early use translating classical Latin lār  lar n.   and (in plural) penātēs   (see penates n.); compare Dutch huisgod (1588 as †huysgod), German Hausgott (1561), both rendering the Latin noun.]			 ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > 			[noun]		 > household god(s) penatesa1522 house god1540 household god1564 lar1586 lares and penates1616 1540    J. Palsgrave tr.  G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus  v. iv. sig. Ziv  				Come of, come of, what if I seeke my fathers house goddes [L. lares], (that haue his house in tuition) after boundes wise. 1634    T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 54  				These Nomades..wander with their House-gods, day and night. 1742    C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents  iii. iv. 204  				The Roman satirist..calls these Images his dear little House-Gods; and then observes, that they were crown'd with Garlands of Flowers in Summer. 1839    P. J. Bailey Festus 34  				Sate Like a house-god, her hands fixed on her knee. 1995    C. B. Divakaruni Arranged Marriage 		(1997)	 209  				The heavy teak panel carved with fierce-looking house gods. < as lemmas  | 
	
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