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单词 mongibel
释义

Mongibeln.

Forms: 1600s Mongiball, 1600s Mongibel, 1600s Mongibell, 1600s Mongibello, 1600s Mont-Gibell.
Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Mongibel.
Etymology: < Mongibel, a name for Mount Etna in Sicily < Italian Mongibello (variant, with shortening of the first element, of Monte Gibello < Monte mount n.1 + Gibello < Arabic jabal mountain: see jebel n.), the modern Sicilian name.
Obsolete.
A fierce or destructive conflagration, likened to the eruption of Mount Etna.
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the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > a fire > [noun] > a kind of fire > immense
baleOE
bale-firec1400
balowe-firec1430
Mongibel1632
inferno1894
1598 B. Yong tr. A. Pérez 2nd Pt. Diana in tr. J. de Montemayor Diana iv. 270 You may within my brest Quench out this burning flame, or at the lest, Coole this great heate that burnes like Mongibelle?
1605 Z. Jones tr. P. le Loyer Treat. Specters iv. 42 Mongibell, which in times past was held to be the Forge and furnace of Vulcan, and of late hath bin called Ætna.]
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena i. 13 After that vertue (a greene fuell for such a fire) was somewhat dry'd up, and that it's smoake (which were good inspirations) evaporated away through the chimnies of youth, the flame of the one began so lively to communicate it selfe with the flame of the other, that joyned both in one they became to be..an infernall Mongibello.
1660 J. Howell Θηρολογια 134 Within us we felt too often..such furnaces or Mongibells of fires.
1674 T. Flatman On Death Dk. Albemarle vi. 8 The City turn'd into one Mongibel.
1682 W. Richards Wallography 68 His Forge was rais'd from the ground like an Altar, upon which there did burn (as it were) a Vestal Fire, which blast of Bellows made much to bubble up in this little Mongibel.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2002; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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