单词 | penates |
释义 | penatesn. In ancient Roman mythology: the gods that protect or watch over a household, esp. its storeroom. Hence: household possessions regarded as defining or embodying a person's home (now more usually in lares and penates n. at lar n. Additions). Also figurative and in extended use. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > household god(s) penatesa1522 house god1540 household god1564 lar1586 lares and penates1616 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xiii. x. 81 Penates, or the Goddis domesticall. 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 8v Ascanius..builded Alba longa, to the whiche he brought his fathers idolls called the gods Penates. 1616 B. Jonson Forrest ii. 79 in Wks. I They saw thy fires Shine bright on euery harth as the desires Of thy Penates had beene set on flame, To entertayne them. 1662 J. Evelyn Sculptura ii. 16 The Penates of Laban. 1775 H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 270 I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats. 1792 W. Roberts Looker-on No. 1. 7 My mother had a pious regard for this relic, which was always one of her little penates, or pocket-gods. 1824 Ld. Byron Deformed Transformed ii. i. 103 Yet once more, ye old Penates! Let not your quench'd hearths be Até's! 1843 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 527 The inhabitants had the choice of being fried or drowned, along with their penates and their supellectile property. 1882 C. Pebody Eng. Journalism xv. 109 John Walter broke up his household..in Printing House Square, set up his penates at Bearwood. 1896 J. Curtin tr. H. Sienkiewicz Quo Vadis xlvi. 356 The temple of Jupiter Stator was burning, and..the sanctuary of Vesta with the penates of the Roman people. 1956 S. Plath Jrnl. 6 Mar. (2000) 218 My dearest lares and penates, my ‘household gods’, which are all the small, warm gestures of knowing and loving you. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 248/1 The penates were literally the gods of the pantry, and every household had a shrine with figurines of these deities. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1522 |
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