单词 | lares and penates |
释义 | > as lemmaslares and penates lares and penates n. (a) Roman Mythology household gods; = sense 1a; (b) household belongings regarded as defining or embodying a person's home; prized possessions. Cf. penates n. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > household god(s) penatesa1522 house god1540 household god1564 lar1586 lares and penates1616 society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > [noun] > home > essentials of home life lares and penates1616 household god1818 1616 B. Jonson Entertainm. at Theobalds in Wks. (ed. 2) 888 A glorious place, figuring the Lararium, or seat of the household-gods, where both the Lares, and Penates, were painted. 1653 A. Ross Πανσεβεια xv. 556 Hence it appears that they were forced to have Deities in every place: at home they had their Lares and Penates. 1775 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 270 I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats. 1852 Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) 24 Dec. The steward is occasionally such a home-body, that he will establish his lares and penates on each side of the Atlantic. 1975 M. H. Wolf I'll take Back Road iv. 121 Most of my grandmother's lares and penates were ‘too nice to use’; the Baleek tea set,..and the complete sets of Emerson and Hawthorne, all were out of bounds. 1995 S. E. Grace Sursum Corda! I. 416 Lares and penates were beneficent Roman gods who watched over a household. < as lemmas |
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