单词 | omination |
释义 | † ominationn. Obsolete. A foreboding, a prognostication; (Rhetoric) a speech or text prophesying evil. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] > act or action tokeningc888 omination1589 portending1590 portention1617 portendment1626 portendance1644 augury1654 preomination1660 omening1796 1577 H. Peacham Garden of Eloquence sig. Li Ominatio, when we doe shew & foretell what shall hereafter come to passe, which we gather by some likely signes.] 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xi[i]. 124 If any other man by triall happen vpon a better omination. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica v. xxi. 265 Nor was the same [falling of Salt] a generall prognosticke of future evill among the ancients, but a particular omination concerning the breach of friendship. View more context for this quotation 1650 J. Trapp Clavis to Bible (Num. xviii. 12) 36 Adding happy ominations and gratulations. 1665 J. Spencer Disc. Prodigies (ed. 2) 102 Ominations by Words, Names, Places, Times, in so many several Chapters full of elaborate vanity. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Omination, prognostick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online September 2019). < n.1589 |
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