单词 | pyramidist |
释义 | pyramidistn. An expert or specialist in the structure and history of the Egyptian pyramids. Also: a person who believes in the occult or religious significance of the pyramids; a pyramidologist. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > memorial or monument > [noun] > study of > specific > one who studies Egyptologue1856 Egyptologist1859 pyramidist1874 Egyptologer1876 1874 C. P. Smyth Our Inherit. in Great Pyramid v. xxi. 41 A scientific pyramidist..confines himself to stating..that the Great Pyramid was erected in the times of the Fourth Dynasty. 1883 R. A. Proctor Great Pyramid App. A. 187 The length of the earth's polar axis is assumed by pyramidists to be 500,000,000 pyramid inches. 1932 Tablet 15 Oct. 495/2 ‘The Final Tribulation’ is fixed by the Pyramidists for the year 1936. 1949 S. Lewis God-seeker lvii. 377 There were Grahamite Dietists and Plymouth Brethren and Post-Messianic Hebrews and Prophetic Pyramidists, and pacifists and foot-washers. 1993 Press Assoc. Newswire (Nexis) 13 Nov. Biblical Pyramidists, who believed the measurements of the Great Pyramid in Egypt forecast the end of the world, fixed the moment as September 15–16, 1936. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1874 |
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