单词 | rude beast |
释义 | > as lemmasrude beast a. Of an animal: not having the power of reason. Now chiefly literary in rude beast (usually understood in other senses of the adjective). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > [adjective] > as opposed to man rudea1325 beastlya1393 brute-beastish1530 brutish1534 ignoble1602 subhuman1790 a1325 (?c1300) Northern Passion (Cambr. Gg.1.1) l. 1106 (MED) Þei..betin him whle hit wold last, Als þei wolde a rude beste. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xv. 453 As in wilde wildernesse wexeth wilde bestes, Rude and vnresonable, rennenge with-out creperes [read croperes]. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) ii. 2215 (MED) Bestis, of resoun rude and blinde, Desire þe same by instymt of kynde. c1450 ( J. Walton tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (Linc. Cathedral 103) 235 (MED) Þere he myghte a god in manere be..Now is he chaunged to a rude beste. c1450 (?a1422) J. Lydgate Life Our Lady (Durh.) v. l. 650 To see þe beestis þat so humble be..The rude Asse and the oxe also. a1500 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Stowe) l. 16779 As wel thes Rude beestes as Men that were Resounable. 1587 W. Rankins Mirrour of Monsters f. 2v Men do then transform that glorious image of Christ into the brutish shape of a rude beast. 1608 J. Day Humour out of Breath i. i. sig. B2 Apollo's lyre, whose sprightly fires Have tamed rude beasts and charmed men's wild desires. 1814 R. Mansel Free Thoughts upon Methodists, Actors, & Infl. of Stage 20 The christian religion was yet but newly Planted, and therefore..was carefully to be covered and defended from the injuries of rude beasts, and the contagion of those rank superstitious weeds that grew about it. 1856 J. Jones Poems 64 In front, exalted, but of date unknown, Rude beasts are destined to exist, in stone. 1902 N. D. Hillis Investm. of Infl. (2007) ix. 115 Some rude beast, in wild pursuit of prey, plunges through the swamp, shatters the reed, leaves it lying upon the ground, all bruised and bleeding. 1984 New York 3 Dec. 147/3 Through this nocturnal idyll stalk rude beasts: pigs with the fangs of vampire bats, more snarling canines. 2007 P. Burnham Careful Scattering 187 Light the light of Bethlehem In a stable by the Inn Where rude beasts are sheltering Beside a Child who will be King. < as lemmas |
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