请输入您要查询的英文单词:

 

单词 less world
释义

> as lemmas

less world
less world n. Obsolete (with the) (a) = microcosm n. (in various senses); (b) the philosopher's stone (as containing all the elements).Quot. OE shows use with Old English middangeard middenerd n. rendering post-classical Latin microscosmus (see microcosm n.).
ΘΚΠ
the world > people > person > [noun] > as pattern of the universe
less worlda1387
microcosmosa1500
petty world1602
OE Brussels Gloss. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 289 Microcosmus, læssa middaneard.]
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 29 (MED) Þe secunde book auntreþ forto telle berynge and dedes wiþ descripcioun of the lasse world [L. minoris mundi].
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 552 Man es clepid þe lesse werld.
c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 552 (MED) Al this worlde..Was maad..For profyt oonly of A man..For whiche these olde clerkes all The lesse worlde lyst to call.
a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 88 It holdys yn him alle þe elymentz, and it ys callyd þe lesse world..þe Eye [= egg] of Philosophers.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Aiv Lyke as the great worlde was made perfecte in .vii. dayes, so the lesse worlde, that is man is made..perfecte by grace in these .vii. spirituall dayes.
1570 J. Dee in H. Billingsley tr. Euclid Elements Geom. Math. Præf. sig. ciiij The description of him, who is the Lesse world: and, from the beginning, called Microcosmus (that is. The Lesse World.).
1642 H. More Ψυχωδια Platonica sig. F Als makes his near abode In the lesse world.
1679 L. Hutchinson Order & Disorder v. 68 The less world with the great proportion held: As winds the caverns, sighs the bosomes fill'd.
1732 W. Harper Antiquity, Innocence & Pleasure of Gardening 3 It was Man's Apostacy that disorder'd the Greater as well as less World.
extracted from lessadj.adv.pron.n.prep.
<
as lemmas
随便看

 

英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。

 

Copyright © 2004-2022 Newdu.com All Rights Reserved
更新时间:2024/12/24 3:11:06