单词 | ablepsy |
释义 | ablepsyn. literary. Physical or mental blindness. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > imperfect perception > [noun] thesterc897 blindness971 obscurationa1550 twilight1610 ablepsy1616 obcaecationa1631 mind-blindness1649 blear-eyedness1653 short-sightedness1670 blearedness1678 crassitude1679 myopia1801 purblindness1834 bat-mindedness1869 myopism1880 short sighta1888 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of eye > disordered vision > [noun] > blindness blindnessc1000 blindheada1340 darknessa1382 unsightc1412 stone-blindc1500 cecity1528 ablepsy1616 anopsy1646 invision1646 anopsia1842 sightlessness1847 stone-blindness1868 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Ablepsie, want of sight, blindnesse, vnaduisednesse. 1652 T. Urquhart Εκσκυβαλαυρον 242 Who doubteth, that is not blinded with the ablepsie of an implicite zeal? 1661 S. Pordage Mundorum Explicatio 285 Such great Ablepsie doth in others brain Lye, that they cannot see, though it be plain, Before their eyes. 1806 Cobbett's Weekly Polit. Reg. 1 Nov. 698 I trust we never shall be reduced to the condition of such total ablepsy. 1889 Atlanta Constit. 23 Feb. (electronic text) The New York Press says that those who are outside of its circle of readers are ‘affected by ablepsy’. 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 120 Misprint it was, due to the tendency of typesetters and typewriters to uniformitarianism, but the charge of ablepsy abides as is the case with ‘Chapman’ for ‘Chapman's’, [etc.]. 1984 Classical Rev. 34 228 Typographical standards are generally so high that the book's copious errors of detail must be attributed to authorial ablepsy. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1616 |
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