单词 | personified |
释义 | personifiedadj. 1. Represented, spoken of, or imagined as a person. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > personification > [adjective] > personified personateda1613 personatea1631 personified1753 personalized1873 1753 J. Warton in C. Pitt tr. Virgil Æneid vi, in J. Warton et al. tr. Virgil Wks. III. 196 (note) Spencer has introduced some personified figures in the entrance to Mammon's cave. 1765 W. Shirley Birth of Hercules ii. ii, in Electra 119 (stage direct.) A grand dance is performed by the following personified Virtues and Blessings. Industry, and Health [etc.]. 1833 H. Martineau French Wines & Politics i. 16 Alms issuing from an English merchant's pocket..in the name of a personified vineyard. 1870 J. Lubbock Origin of Civilisation (ed. 2) vi. 236 The worship of personified principles, such as Fear, Love, Hope, &c. 1957 J. S. Huxley Relig. without Revelation I. 18 The personified sun..becomes a supernatural being who controls the sun. 2001 Brit. Jrnl. Hist. Sci. 34 131 Renaissance conceptualizations of artisanal practice and nature..viewed man as an imitator of a playful, autonomous personified Nature. ΘΚΠ the world > people > person > [adjective] > of human form two-legged1560 manlike1590 walkinga1616 hominiform1678 human-like1748 anthropomorphous1753 anthropomorphic1827 anthropoid1835 personified1851 bimanal1859 anthropoidal1865 humanoid1914 hominoid1950 android- 1851 ‘L. Mariotti’ Italy in 1848 ii. ii. 146 The poem of Dante was to Italy what the spark of the sun was to the personified clay of Prometheus. 1899 Harper's Mag. Feb. 385 A fierce battle raged between the personified geese who hissed and the men who resented the offence. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1753 |
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