单词 | legendarian |
释义 | legendarianadj.n. rare. That is the author of a legendary. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1621 R. Crakanthorpe Def. Constantine i. x. 213 Antoninus with the Legendarian Arch-bishop sets downe the very words, arguments, and answeres vsed in that disputation. 1824 A. Wilson in ‘I. Brown’ Renfrewshire Characters & Scenery (note) 40 In a note subjoined to that article the author laments that no account is given by any of our legendarian historians, of St. Miren. B. n. 1. The writer of a legendary or (more generally) a legend. Cf. legendary n. 3, legendist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] > literature about > story or account of > collection of > writer or compiler of legendarian1624 sanctologist1824 1624 J. Gee New Shreds Old Snare 69 As Aesop devised all his Fables for the Morals sake: So the Popish Legendarians inuent their tales to make a good morall vse of them onely. 1677 W. Hughes Man of Sin Pref. sig. Biv Which is the Case of all their Legendarians, brought as Witnesses here. 1864 F. M. Müller tr. Yāska in Lect. Sci. Lang 2nd Ser. xi. 489 The legendarians [sc. the sun and the moon] maintain that they were two virtuous kings. 1984 A. Goldhammer tr. J. Le Goff Birth of Purgatory (1986) ix. 321 The legendarian who, despite his mediocrity, enjoyed the most spectacular success: Jacopo da Varazze (Jacobus da Voragine). ΚΠ 1882 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. I. 748 The Broad-Church type of thought..also includes the rationalist and the legendarian. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1621 |
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