omenn.

Brit.

/ˈəʊmən/, U.S.

/ˈoʊm(ə)n/

Inflections: Plural omens, (rare) omina.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ōmen.

Etymology: < classical Latin ōmen something that foreshadows an event or the outcome of an event, of uncertain origin.Several etymologies of the Latin word have been suggested, none of which seems more likely than the others. Varro's derivation < ōs mouth (see os n.³) has generally been rejected by modern scholars, both on semantic grounds, and because the suffix -men is usually attached to a verbal first element.

1. An event or phenomenon regarded as a portent of good or evil; a prophetic sign, an augury.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun]

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1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 You Gods of countrye..this is eke your prosperus omen.

1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. ii. sig. G3 I can take it for no good Omen, to find mine Honor so deiected.

1637 T. Heywood Dial. ii, in Wks. (1874) VI. 113 Far be that Omen from vs [= L. absit omen!].

1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen v. 83 But however he rellisht it, I am sure I took it very heavily, and found it a sad Omen of my future Misfortunes.

1719 E. Young Busiris iii. 27 May all the Gods watch o'er your Life and Empire, And render Omens vain!

1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 22 He beheld nothing but a thick, dun cloud, which he took for the most direful of omens.

1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 198 They retained much of the Indian belief in charms and omens.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §4. 497 Men noted as a fatal omen the accident which marked his first entry into Lambeth.

1936 A. Ransome Pigeon Post xv. 153 She remembered a night when..an owl called like that and everything had turned just when it seemed to be going wrong. It was a good omen.

1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. iii. 76 The methods of divination favored by the early Babylonians were derived from the particularities of the liver and other terrestrial omina.

1989 Weekly News (Glasgow) 27 May 2 Unlike lots of people I like spiders. They have always been an omen of luck to me.

2. As a mass noun: prophetic significance; indication of good or evil to come. Frequently with modifying adjective in of good (ill, etc.) omen. Also personified.In quot. 1785 the implication is of evil or unfavourable augury.

ΚΠ

1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum, Elegy in Rev. Eng. Stud. 8 (1932) 38 Bring here therefore no caytive Columbines, Flowers of ill omen, and unhappy signes.

1684 J. Banks Island Queens i. i. 11 Birds of frightful Omen, Scriech Owls, Batts, And Ravens, such as haunt old ruin'd Castles.

1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies sig. A4 The Birds of thy Colour, shall no more be counted Birds of Ill Omen.

1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 11 And on her Cheek, the Residence of Spring, Pale Omen sate.

1785 L. MacNally Fashionable Levities i. 19 She compared you to a cuckoo, a bird of omen.

1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zicci 78 I trust your business to our illustrious guest is of good omen and pleasant import.

1893 Field 8 Apr. 530/1 A dry March..is of universally good omen for the coming corn crops.

1911 ‘M. Field’ Dian ii. iv, in Trag. Pardon 214 A warning of such fearful vehemence And evil omen.

1957 Sunday Times 17 Nov. 3/3 The Examination Schools, that lavatorial building of awful omen.

1972 T. Keneally Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith iii. 20 But it was, for other reasons, a bad night and a bad place full of miserable omen.

Compounds

C1.

omen-hunter n.

ΚΠ

1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 62 Directed by a Dreamer, an Omen-hunter.

1726 G. Odingsells Capricious Lovers iv. vii. 56 Credulity is a superstitious Omen-hunter, that mistakes Dreams for Divination.

1988 Guardian (Nexis) 21 June Perhaps omen-hunters might make something of the latest acquisition by the [Rowntree company] staff library..: Robyn Donald's ominously-titled The Sweetest Trap.

omen hunting n.

ΚΠ

1902 N.E.D. at Omen Omen-hunting.

2000 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Apr. (Final Four Extra Suppl.) 9 f Omen hunting... Three teams have lost to opponents each time they met in the regular season and then defeated them in the final four.

omen-monger n.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] > augur, diviner from omens

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1777 H. Walpole Lett. 16 Sept. (1846) V. 472 I hope fatalists and omen-mongers will be confuted.

1898 Cent. Mag. Sept. 665/1 The very night in which the glory of Asia went up in flames, Alexander was born in Pella; so, at least, the omen-mongers said.

omen-bearing adj.

ΚΠ

1899 A. B. Bruce Moral Order of World 150 The eagle and other omen-bearing birds.

C2.

omen-animal n. an animal whose behaviour or body parts are used as a way of divining future events.

ΚΠ

1902 Man 2 61 The chapters on the omen-animals and the cult of skulls are of special value.

omen bird n. a bird used as an omen-animal.

ΚΠ

1892 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 21 400 The matter of shadow-souls and of omen-birds.

1955 R. F. Barton Mythol. of Ifugaos 234 Ido, the omen bird usually consulted.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

omenv.

Brit.

/ˈəʊmən/, U.S.

/ˈoʊm(ə)n/

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: omen n.

Etymology: < omen n. Compare classical Latin ōminārī . Compare earlier ominate v. and slightly earlier omened adj.

transitive. To be a sign or warning of; to presage, portend. Also: to mark with omens.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (transitive)]

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1697 S. Cobb Pax Redux ix. 5 When in his Cradle the blest Infant lay, And sacred Smiles omen'd th' Auspicious Day.

1722 L. Eusden Three Poems 3 Prophetic Granta with a Mother's Joy Saw Greatness omen'd in the manly Boy.

1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xi. 284 An offering which shall more propitiate them, And omen sure success.

1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 285 The yet unknown verdict, of which, however, all omened the tragical contents.

1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 91 Good or ill luck for the whole year being omened by your liking or otherwise of the first person that accosts you on New Year's morning.

a1924 M. Ghose Perseus Gorgon-slayer in Coll. Poems (1970) I. i. iii. 79 Vision portentous omening my road At outset.

2001 Saigon Times Daily (Nexis) 26 Feb. Investment in the city..slid 23.8%, omening slower economic growth in the..years to come.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	omen
释义	omenn. Brit. /ˈəʊmən/, U.S. /ˈoʊm(ə)n/ Inflections: Plural omens, (rare) omina. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin ōmen. Etymology: < classical Latin ōmen something that foreshadows an event or the outcome of an event, of uncertain origin.Several etymologies of the Latin word have been suggested, none of which seems more likely than the others. Varro's derivation < ōs mouth (see os n.³) has generally been rejected by modern scholars, both on semantic grounds, and because the suffix -men is usually attached to a verbal first element. 1. An event or phenomenon regarded as a portent of good or evil; a prophetic sign, an augury. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > [noun] foretokenc888 tokeningc888 beaconc950 token971 handsela1200 boding1297 wonder1297 bodec1374 signa1387 foreboding1387 prenostica1393 prognosticc1425 prophetc1430 prognostication?a1439 ostentationa1450 prenostication?a1450 prodigy?a1450 augurationc1450 preparative1460 prenosticate?a1475 prenosticative?a1475 prodige1482 prenosticature1490 tokener1513 weird1513 show token1535 luck1538 prognosticate1541 preamble1548 proffer1548 presagition?c1550 foreshower1555 presage1560 portent1562 ostent1570 presagie1581 omen1582 presagement1586 luck sign1587 augury1588 prognosticon1588 forerunner1589 presager1591 halfner1594 spae1596 abode1598 oss1600 assign1601 augur1603 bodement1613 predictiona1616 prognosticala1618 bespeaker1624 portender1635 pre-indicant1659 foreshadow1834 boder1846 prognosticant1880 sky sign1880 1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis ii. 41 You Gods of countrye..this is eke your prosperus omen. 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love iv. ii. sig. G3 I can take it for no good Omen, to find mine Honor so deiected. View more context for this quotation 1637 T. Heywood Dial. ii, in Wks. (1874) VI. 113 Far be that Omen from vs [= L. absit omen!]. 1673 F. Kirkman Unlucky Citizen v. 83 But however he rellisht it, I am sure I took it very heavily, and found it a sad Omen of my future Misfortunes. 1719 E. Young Busiris iii. 27 May all the Gods watch o'er your Life and Empire, And render Omens vain! 1786 S. Henley tr. W. Beckford Arabian Tale 22 He beheld nothing but a thick, dun cloud, which he took for the most direful of omens. 1836 W. Irving Astoria I. 198 They retained much of the Indian belief in charms and omens. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People viii. §4. 497 Men noted as a fatal omen the accident which marked his first entry into Lambeth. 1936 A. Ransome Pigeon Post xv. 153 She remembered a night when..an owl called like that and everything had turned just when it seemed to be going wrong. It was a good omen. 1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. iii. 76 The methods of divination favored by the early Babylonians were derived from the particularities of the liver and other terrestrial omina. 1989 Weekly News (Glasgow) 27 May 2 Unlike lots of people I like spiders. They have always been an omen of luck to me. 2. As a mass noun: prophetic significance; indication of good or evil to come. Frequently with modifying adjective in of good (ill, etc.) omen. Also personified.In quot. 1785 the implication is of evil or unfavourable augury. ΚΠ 1634 W. Lathum Phyala Lachrymarum, Elegy in Rev. Eng. Stud. 8 (1932) 38 Bring here therefore no caytive Columbines, Flowers of ill omen, and unhappy signes. 1684 J. Banks Island Queens i. i. 11 Birds of frightful Omen, Scriech Owls, Batts, And Ravens, such as haunt old ruin'd Castles. 1723 J. Barker Patch-work Screen for Ladies sig. A4 The Birds of thy Colour, shall no more be counted Birds of Ill Omen. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the Third 11 And on her Cheek, the Residence of Spring, Pale Omen sate. 1785 L. MacNally Fashionable Levities i. 19 She compared you to a cuckoo, a bird of omen. 1825 E. Bulwer-Lytton Zicci 78 I trust your business to our illustrious guest is of good omen and pleasant import. 1893 Field 8 Apr. 530/1 A dry March..is of universally good omen for the coming corn crops. 1911 ‘M. Field’ Dian ii. iv, in Trag. Pardon 214 A warning of such fearful vehemence And evil omen. 1957 Sunday Times 17 Nov. 3/3 The Examination Schools, that lavatorial building of awful omen. 1972 T. Keneally Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith iii. 20 But it was, for other reasons, a bad night and a bad place full of miserable omen. Compounds C1. a. omen-hunter n. ΚΠ 1695 W. Congreve Love for Love iv. i. 62 Directed by a Dreamer, an Omen-hunter. 1726 G. Odingsells Capricious Lovers iv. vii. 56 Credulity is a superstitious Omen-hunter, that mistakes Dreams for Divination. 1988 Guardian (Nexis) 21 June Perhaps omen-hunters might make something of the latest acquisition by the [Rowntree company] staff library..: Robyn Donald's ominously-titled The Sweetest Trap. omen hunting n. ΚΠ 1902 N.E.D. at Omen Omen-hunting. 2000 Wisconsin State Jrnl. (Nexis) 1 Apr. (Final Four Extra Suppl.) 9 f Omen hunting... Three teams have lost to opponents each time they met in the regular season and then defeated them in the final four. omen-monger n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > augury, divination from omens > [noun] > augur, diviner from omens augura1393 auguryne?a1425 conjectora1425 augurerc1450 augurizer1588 conjecturer1612 augurya1616 augurist1623 auspicator1652 omen-monger1777 1777 H. Walpole Lett. 16 Sept. (1846) V. 472 I hope fatalists and omen-mongers will be confuted. 1898 Cent. Mag. Sept. 665/1 The very night in which the glory of Asia went up in flames, Alexander was born in Pella; so, at least, the omen-mongers said. b. omen-bearing adj. ΚΠ 1899 A. B. Bruce Moral Order of World 150 The eagle and other omen-bearing birds. C2. omen-animal n. an animal whose behaviour or body parts are used as a way of divining future events. ΚΠ 1902 Man 2 61 The chapters on the omen-animals and the cult of skulls are of special value. omen bird n. a bird used as an omen-animal. ΚΠ 1892 Jrnl. Anthropol. Inst. 21 400 The matter of shadow-souls and of omen-birds. 1955 R. F. Barton Mythol. of Ifugaos 234 Ido, the omen bird usually consulted. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). omenv. Brit. /ˈəʊmən/, U.S. /ˈoʊm(ə)n/ Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: omen n. Etymology: < omen n. Compare classical Latin ōminārī . Compare earlier ominate v. and slightly earlier omened adj. transitive. To be a sign or warning of; to presage, portend. Also: to mark with omens. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > an omen, sign, portent > portend, betoken [verb (transitive)] betokenc1275 bode1387 prognostica1400 pretend1402 prognosticate?a1425 ossc1450 importc1487 prognostify1495 protendc1554 presage1562 abode1573 boden1573 denounce1581 importune1590 prejudicate1595 foretoken1598 ominate1598 auspicate1604 divine1607 foredeem1612 warranta1616 augur1630 preaugurate1635 prewarna1637 prenote1641 preominate1646 forespeak1667 omen1697 betidea1799 bespeak1851 1697 S. Cobb Pax Redux ix. 5 When in his Cradle the blest Infant lay, And sacred Smiles omen'd th' Auspicious Day. 1722 L. Eusden Three Poems 3 Prophetic Granta with a Mother's Joy Saw Greatness omen'd in the manly Boy. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. xi. 284 An offering which shall more propitiate them, And omen sure success. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian xii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 285 The yet unknown verdict, of which, however, all omened the tragical contents. 1871 T. Carlyle in J. W. Carlyle Lett. & Memorials (1883) III. 91 Good or ill luck for the whole year being omened by your liking or otherwise of the first person that accosts you on New Year's morning. a1924 M. Ghose Perseus Gorgon-slayer in Coll. Poems (1970) I. i. iii. 79 Vision portentous omening my road At outset. 2001 Saigon Times Daily (Nexis) 26 Feb. Investment in the city..slid 23.8%, omening slower economic growth in the..years to come. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1582v.1697
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