| 单词 | orphic egg |
| 释义 | > as lemmasOrphic egg b. Orphic egg: the earth or world, supposed in Orphic doctrine to be egg-shaped. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > [noun] all the worldeOE mouldOE worldOE earthOE earthricheOE foldOE worldricheOE motherOE wonec1275 mound?a1300 wildernessa1340 mappemondea1393 lower worlda1398 the whole worlda1513 orba1550 the (also this) globe1553 the earthly globe1553 mother earth1568 the glimpses of the moon1603 universe1630 outer world1661 terrene1667 Orphic egg1684 Midgard1770 all outdoors1833 Planet Earth1858 overworld1911 Spaceship Earth1966 1684 T. Burnet Theory of Earth ii. 280 The opinion of the oval figure of the earth is ascrib'd to Orpheus and his disciples; and the doctrine of the mundane egg is so peculiarly his, that 'tis call'd by Proclus the Orphick egg. 1708 W. Whiston New Theory of Earth (ed. 2) ii. 222 Nothing was more celebrated than the Original..Orphick Egg, in the most early Authors. 1789 H. L. Piozzi Observ. Journey France I. 228 The mundane, or as Proclus calls it, the orphick egg, is possibly the earliest of all methods taken to explain the rise, progress, and final conclusion of our earth and atmosphere. 1840–1 T. Moore Poet. Wks. X. iv. 349 So many minor Myst'ries, imps of fraud, From the great Orphic Egg have wing'd abroad. 1952 Philos. Q. 2 105 (note) A supposed gonimon in Anaximander and the Orphic Egg. 1994 P. Marshall Nature's Web 374 Like the ancient Greek creation myth of the Orphic egg, it suggests that all things came from a common living source. < as lemmas |
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