单词 | beyond description |
释义 | > as lemmasbeyond (all) description b. beyond (all) description: (in predicative use) incapable of being expressed in language, unutterable, unspeakable; (as adv.) to a great and incredible extent. Cf. beyond words at word n. and int. Phrases 1c. ΚΠ 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage ix. xv. 751 Those former tyrannies vpon the Indians, are beyond all oratory and description. 1650 T. Hawkins et al. tr. N. Caussin Holy Court (new ed.) ii. vii. 245/2 Constantine amazed beyond description at so prodigious an accident, had neither reply, nor sense of a man, so much wonder had rapt him from himself. 1704 Tentamen Medicinale 42 Some of them [sc. physicians] I know are ignorant beyond Description. 1725 J. Morgan tr. M. Rabadan Mahometism Explained II. xxiii. 76 I could plainly see the Hosts of Cœlestial Potentates, with Legions of immortal Nymphs, lovely beyond all Description. 1807 Sir R. Wilson Let. 19 Oct. in Life (1862) II. viii. 374 The road..being made of putters or young trees a great portion of which had rotted, it was dreadful beyond description. 1864 U.S. Sanitary Comm. Bull. 1 June 452/2 A mingled crowd of army wagons and ambulances, stragglers and walking wounded, has passed.., forming a spectacle beyond description. 1901 Macmillan's Guide Palestine & Egypt 135/1 The fascination of this bazaar is beyond all description. 1922 Telephony 2 Dec. 19/1 An all-embrasive discussion..would necessitate entering into long lists of statistical notations that would undoubtedly bore you beyond description. 2015 Sunday Independent (Nexis) 3 May 31 After the publication of my letter.., I was moved beyond description by the positive reactions of tens of thousands online. < as lemmas |
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