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单词 pentateuch
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Pentateuchn.

Brit. /ˈpɛntətjuːk/, /ˈpɛntətʃuːk/, U.S. /ˈpɛn(t)əˌt(j)uk/
Forms:

α. late Middle English Pentacheuke (transmission error), late Middle English Pentateuchon, late Middle English Pentatewke, late Middle English Pentatheuke, late Middle English Penteteuke, 1500s Pentateuke, 1500s Penthatheuke, 1600s– Pentateuch.

β. 1500s Pentatychon.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French pentateuke, Penthateucon; Latin pentateuchus.
Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman pentateuke (14th cent. or earlier as pentatenke ) and Middle French Penthateucon (c1430 in the source translated in quot. a1500 at sense 1; French Pentateuque ), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin pentateuchus (masculine), pentateuchum (neuter) the first five books of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures (early 3rd cent. in Tertullian) < Hellenistic Greek πεντάτευχος , feminine (2nd cent. in Ptolemaeus Gnosticus Epistula ad Floram, cited in Epiphanius adv. Haereses 33. 4), use as noun (short for πεντάτευχος βίβλος ) of πεντάτευχος (adjective) of five books < ancient Greek πεντα- penta- comb. form + τεῦχος implement, vessel, in Hellenistic Greek also book (see -teuch comb. form). Compare Spanish Pentateuco (1275 as penthateuco), Italian pentateuco (a1565).In β. forms perhaps after post-classical Latin diptycha (plural) diptych n., although this is etymologically unrelated.
1. The first five books of the Old Testament and Hebrew Scriptures (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, and Deuteronomy), taken together as a group.The books of the Pentateuch are traditionally ascribed to Moses, and hence are sometimes called ‘the five books of Moses’.
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lawc1384
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a1425 (a1382) Prefatory Epist. St. Jerome in Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Corpus Oxf.) (1850) 68 Hider to Moyses, hider to Pentateuchon.
a1450 (c1405) On translating Bible (Trin. Cambr.) in Medium Ævum (1938) 7 177 (MED) Wane he haþ rehersiþd al þe bookis of þe Bibel, þane he seiþ in þe prolog of Penteteuke [v.r. Pentatewke]: ‘I preie þe dere broþer.’
a1500 tr. A. Chartier Traité de l'Esperance (Rawl.) (1974) 23 (MED) She bar..an olde booke..the Pentacheuke [v.r. Pentatheuke] of Moyses, which was the figure and the shadowe of the feithe.
1532 T. More Confut. Tyndale in Wks. 343/2 That after these bokes well learned, we bee mete for Tyndales pentateukes, and Tyndales testamente.
1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 15 Long before his time was the Pentateuch turned into Greek.
1671 J. Milton Paradise Regain'd iv. 90 All knowledge is not couch't in Moses Law, The Pentateuch or what the Prophets wrote. View more context for this quotation
1724 A. Collins Disc. Grounds Christian Relig. 139 It was indifferent to him whether you said Moses was the author of the Pentateuch, or Esdras re'established it.
a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iii. 273 The Israelite had nothing more to do than open his Pentateuch [printed Peutateuch].
1818 G. S. Faber Horæ Mosaicæ (ed. 2) I. 350 It is found impossible to ascribe the uninterpolated Pentateuch to any author save Moses.
1867 M. E. Herbert Cradle Lands viii. 210 They were shown the oldest known copy of the Pentateuch.
1932 Quest Jan. 13/2 The primeval notion of the tribal God of the Pentateuch has lived on side by side with the Universalism of the Prophets.
1991 B. E. Close Judaism i. 1 With the advent of the Torah-literature, c. 450 BCE, Torah comes to be synonymous with the Pentateuch or Five Books of Moses.
2. In extended use. Something comprising five parts; esp. a volume consisting of five books or sections. Now rare.
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society > communication > book > kind of book > [noun] > book in several parts
Pentateuch1656
tripartite1657
Heptateuch1678
1656 T. Blount Glossographia Pentateuch, a volume of five Books.
1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Pentateuch,..also any volume consisting of five books.
1842 R. Dunglison Med. Lexicon (ed. 3) (at cited word) By analogy, some surgeons have given the name Surgical Pentateuch to the division of external diseases into five classes:—wounds, ulcers, tumours, luxations, and fractures.
1891 W. Blades (title) The Pentateuch of Printing, with a Chapter on Judges.
1921 G. B. Shaw (title) Back to Methuselah. A Metabiological Pentateuch.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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