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单词 sardanapalian
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Sardanapalianadj.

/sɑːdənəˈpeɪlɪən/
Etymology: < Latin Sardanapālus, Greek Σαρδανάπᾱλος, the name given by Greek historians to the last king of Nineveh, proverbial as the type of luxurious effeminacy.
Resembling Sardanapalus and his attributes; luxuriously effeminate.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > excessively or effeminately luxurious
Sardanapalical1555
Cleopatrical1597
sybarite1599
silkena1616
sybariticala1617
sybaritic1619
sybaritican1623
sybaritish1631
sybarital1839
Sardanapalian1863
1863 R. H. Gronow Recoll. 117 He [Eugène Sue] was supposed..to lead a very Sardanapalian life.
1876 A. J. Evans Through Bosnia vi. 267 [He] lived in Sardanapalian luxury.

Derivatives

Sardanaˈpalical adj. (in quot. 1555 erron. -panicall) Obsolete
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > [adjective] > excessively or effeminately luxurious
Sardanapalical1555
Cleopatrical1597
sybarite1599
silkena1616
sybariticala1617
sybaritic1619
sybaritican1623
sybaritish1631
sybarital1839
Sardanapalian1863
1555 R. Eden tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde i. iii. f. 101 Tumanama..with all his Sardanapanicall famelye.
Sardaˈnapalize v. Obsolete (transitive) to represent or describe as a Sardanapalus.
ΘΚΠ
the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > sensuous pleasure > luxury or luxurious living > make luxurious [verb (transitive)] > represent as excessive or effeminate
Sardanapalize1673
1673 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd ii. 179 You muster up all Christian Princes to Neronize and Caligulize them, unless they..will chuse..to be Uilenspiegled and Sardanapalized by you.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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