单词 | liquid grave |
释义 | > as lemmasliquid grave 3. In enlarged rhetorical use: Anything that is, or may become, the receptacle of what is dead. So liquid grave, watery grave. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > anything like or used as grave1559 tomb?1566 morgue1850 1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Cade xxi Than were on poales my parboylde quarters pight, And set aloft for vermine to deuower, Meete graue for rebels that resist the power. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. vii. 326 Their dead Corpes were cast over Board, in a boundlesse grave to feed the fishes. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 42 Ptolemais (the Grave General of the Christian Army). 1822 Ld. Byron Heaven & Earth i. iii, in Liberal 1 178 Not even a rock from out the liquid grave. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. vi. 185 They had only just escaped a watery grave. 1874 L. Carr Judith Gwynne I. vi. 170 He had carried her..out of a grave of fire. 1895 Maguire in United Service Mag. July 373 The country between the Balkans and Constantinople would have been the grave of the entire Russian Army. 1898 J. R. Illingworth Divine Immanence vi. 137 The body ceases to be the spirit's organ, and becomes first its prison, and then its grave. < as lemmas |
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