单词 | otium cum dignitate |
释义 | otium cum dignitaten. Leisure with dignity; dignified leisure or ease; spec. retirement from public life. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > [noun] restingOE leisure13.. voidnessa1382 remissionc1384 vacationc1386 ease1393 otiosity1483 holiday1526 otiation1589 idlesse1596 vacance1610 playa1616 vacancya1616 remissness1624 recess1644 otium cum dignitate1729 dolce far niente1814 disoccupation1834 otium1850 non-work1855 kef1864 toillessness1877 1729 Visct. Bolingbroke Let. 19 Nov. in A. Pope Wks. in Prose (1741) II. 96 Otium cum dignitate is to be had with 500l. a year as well as with 5000. 1766 W. Kenrick Falstaff's Wedding (new ed.) v. xvi. 83 Your majesty will please to order me from your Exchequer a competency to support the infirmities of nature, and the dignity of knighthood, Otium cum dignitate, my liege. 1820 W. Scott Monastery I. Introd. Ep. 9 Intending there to lead my future life in the otium cum dignitate of half-pay and annuity. 1863 A. Trollope Rachel Ray II. xv. 300 Otium cum dignitate is a dream. 1906 Outlook 20 Nov. 495/2 Dockyardmen who are in danger of losing that otium cum dignitate which they have regarded as their perquisite. a1918 R. S. Bourne Hist. Lit. Radical (1920) 90 Against a background of Harlem flats and stodgy bourgeois prejudices he works out this life of otium cum dignitate, calm speculation and artistic appreciation. 1995 Hist. Jrnl. 38 171 The virtues were designed to conduce to a vision of otium cum dignitate. 2002 Times (Nexis) 9 Aug. (Features section) 22 Meanwhile, otium cum dignitate will revert to what it was before: the preserve of a redefined patrician elite. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1729 |
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