单词 | medo-persian |
释义 | > as lemmasMedo-Persian Forming adjectives and nouns in combination with terms designating the peoples, languages, etc., with whom the Medes (see Mede n.) were associated, in the sense ‘Median and ——’, esp. in Medo-Persian adj.Medo-Persian is sometimes used with allusion to the law of the Medes and Persians at law n.1 1c. ΚΠ 1647 J. Lightfoot Harmony of Old Test. 181 In this first of Belshazzor Daniel seeth the Vision of the foure Kingdoms that troubled the world,..viz. Babylonian, Mede-Persian, Grecian, and Syrogrecian.] 1650 N. Homes Serm. preached before T. Foote 33 The Image of four metals of Mo|narchy ('tis not said of Antichrist) shall be broken to pieces. Three are gone; the Assyrio-Chaledan, the Medo-Persian, and the Grecian. 1681 H. More Plain Expos. Daniel i. 10 There was not that pacateness nor tranquillity in the Medo-Persian Empire that there was in the Babylonian. 1769 J. Brown Dict. Holy Bible II. 381/2 The three kingdoms..conquered by Cyrus, and his Medo-persian troops. 1835 J. B. Robertson tr. F. von Schlegel Philos. of Hist. I. vii. 272 The Assyro-Babylonian empire which preceded the Medo-Persian. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. ii. 9 A revolution in the Medo-Persian capital. 1875 Encycl. Brit. I. 604/2 The name for God in Medo-Scythic is Annap. 1899 Captain Apr. 96/2 There are certain Medo-Persian laws pertaining to a successful stamp collection. 1938 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Jan. 14/2 For a long period the technique of American journalism has been almost Medo-Persian in its rigidity. 1969 Speculum 44 602 These Marada..were subjects of the Medo-Persian state. 1998 Daily Tel. (Electronic ed.) 31 Jan. 48 Later prophets agreed that the Medo-Persian empire which conquered Babylon in 539BC was an inferior kingdom. < as lemmas |
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