单词 | adamist |
释义 | Adamistn.adj. 1. A person who follows or imitates the behaviour of Adam in the Garden of Eden; spec. = Adamite n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > gardening > gardener > [noun] leightonwardc1000 curtilera1300 gardenerc1300 gardener1340 curtelaina1400 hortulan1526 ortolan1526 Adamist1623 fosterer1628 gardeneressa1645 under-gardener1687 horticulist1754 horticultor1760 yard boy1776 garden boy1798 horticulturist1818 plantsman1881 mali1908 plantswoman1933 1623 J. Taylor New Discouery by Sea sig. C2v He calls it [sc. his garden] Paradise, in which he plaies the part of a true Adamist, continually toyling and tilling. 1675 A. M. Plain-dealing 140 Some are Adamists and Levellers, that think there ought to be no distinction of persons. 1853 J. Browne Diffic. Pre-Millennial Advent 32 So Dr. M'Neile has not been able to produce any evidence to refute the Adamists. 1913 Independent 11 Dec. 483/1 The Adamist..rejects all culture and strives after ‘a certain nudity of soul’. 2009 Church Times 17 July 31/2 Blake himself was an Adamist, and it is said that when he married, at St Mary's, Battersea, he and his bride went naked. 2. An adherent the Russian literary movement Adamism (Adamism n. 3). Now historical. ΚΠ 1913 Independent (N.Y.) 11 Dec. 483/1 The acmeist is nearly related to what is known in France as the paroxyst and that his ideal is the assumption of as much culture as possible, while the Adamist..rejects all culture and strives after ‘a certain nudity of soul’. 1974 M. Hayward tr. N. Mandelstam Hope Abandoned 35 He had done nothing but publicly disown his former associates after they had perished, shrilly declaring that he had really belonged to the ‘Adamists’, who, he said, had nothing whatsoever to do with the Acmeists. 2005 T. Langen Stony Dance iv. 59 The naming of a thing carries religious potential, as the group of acmeist poets emphasized by sometimes calling themselves ‘Adamists’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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