单词 | ollamh |
释义 | ollamhn. Irish History. A rank of Irish learned man, the most distinguished kind of file (cf. fili n.); a master of a particular field of knowledge, esp. a master poet or chronicler. Revived as a symbolic rank in 20th-century festivals. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > scholarly knowledge, erudition > learned person, scholar > [noun] uþwitec888 larewc900 learnerc900 witec900 wise manOE leredc1154 masterc1225 readera1387 artificer1449 man of science1482 rabbi1527 rabbin1531 worthy1567 artsmanc1574 philologer1588 artist1592 virtuoso1613 sophist1614 fulla1616 scholastica1633 philologist1638 gnostic1641 scholarian1647 pundit1661 scientman1661 savant1719 ollamh1723 maulvi1776 pandect1791 Sabora1797 erudit1800 mallam1829 Gelehrter1836 erudite1865 walking encyclopaedia1868 Einstein1942 1723 D. O'Connor tr. G. Keating Gen. Hist. Ireland 132 Ollamh Fodhla was his Successor in the Throne... Ollamh signifies a Person that excells in Wisdom and Learning [Irish go raibhe 'n-a ollamh i n-eagna agus i n-eolus]. 1845 G. Petrie Eccl. Archit. Ireland 342 The author of this law refused to allow him more than the ollave in poetry, or the ollave in language, or the teacher. 1888 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 807 The Ollams being specially devoted to genealogy before the advent of the Normans. 1893 Dict. National Biogr. XXXIV. 430 A family of hereditary historians who were..ollavs (i.e. chief chroniclers or professional authors) of the O'Briens. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. ix. [Scylla & Charybdis] 177 Glittereyed, his rufous skull close to his greencapped desklamp sought the face, bearded amid darkgreener shadow, an ollav, holyeyed. 1974 Times 14 Feb. 22/6 The Annual Festival of the Arts of Britain, held by the Order of Bards of Ovates and Druids in Conway hall... James Kirkup..was to be the honoured poet..crowned with bay leaves as an Ollave or High Band of the Order. 1999 Oxf. Compan. Irish Hist. 39 By the 4th century Irish annals..refer to lay schools, each run by an ollamh or ‘master’ of the relevant branch of Irish learning. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1723 |
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