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单词 palmchrist
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palmchristn.

Forms: 1600s palmecrist, 1800s palmchrist.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: palm n.2, Christ n.
Etymology: < palm n.2 + Christ n., after Palma Christi n. Compare French palme de christ (a1500 in Middle French as paume de Crist ), and also (with confusion of the second element with the equivalent of palm n.1) German Christuspalme, Christpalme, Danish kristpalme (1767).Compare earlier Christ's palm , one isolated attestation glossing Latin Palma Christi , apparently in sense ‘red dead-nettle, Lamium purpureum’ (compare Palma Christi n. 1(a)):a1500 in T. Hunt Plant Names Medieval Eng. (1989) 196 [Palma Christi] anglice crystispalme, mannys-moderworte or stidfaste. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (pā·mkrist) /ˈpɑːmkrɪst/.
Obsolete. rare.
The castor oil plant, Ricinus communis; = Palma Christi n. 1(b). In later use archaic (in biblical allusion).
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1611 Bible (King James) Jonah iv. 6 And the Lord God prepared a gourd [margin Or palmecrist], and made it to come vp ouer Ionah, that it might be a shadow ouer his head. View more context for this quotation
1860 E. B. Pusey Minor Prophets 286 We have each, his own palmchrist; and our palmchrist has its own worm.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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