单词 | satanism |
释义 | Satanismn. 1. The state or fact of being satanic (in various senses of the adjective); satanic or diabolical disposition, inclination, doctrine, or behaviour; (occasionally) an instance of this. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > quality of being Satanism1565 dragonism1581 indivinity1646 satanicalness1668 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > devilish wickedness > devilish nature or thing Satanism1565 1565 T. Harding Confut. Apol. Church of Eng. ii. ii. f. 42v Meaning the time when Luther first brinced to Germanie the poisoned cuppe of his heresies, blasphemies, and sathanismes. 1565 R. Shacklock tr. S. Hozjusz Hatchet of Heresies f. 61v Is it so greate a faulte to buylde windowes for the Pope his supremacie, and not to make wyndowes for Sathanisme [L. Sathanismo], that is Dyuellyshe doctryne to entre in? 1633 L. Cary Elegie on Donne in J. Donne Poems 391 So milde was Moses countenance, when he prai'd For them whose Satanisme his power gainsaid. 1679 T. Lawson Dagon's Fall before Ark ii. 22 Adam entring the barren Borders of Satanism, from a Hellish Lake, in the increase of that Kingdom. 1714 J. Hog Let. to Person, exercised to Godliness 22 This Piece of Satanism in the Soul. 1831 Monthly Mag. Apr. 433 The travellers and merchants..who pass their months or years in the midst of the slave population, return to us without any pathetic histories of the satanism of the planters. 1853 H. Mann Few Thoughts Powers & Duties of Woman i. 42 If woman had played the part in this awful historic tragedy..its scenes and acts would have been relieved from many, if not from most, of their bestialities and satanisms. 1900 A. Lang in Daily News 27 June 6/2 With such a mixture of..loyalty, mysterious Satanism, and reputation for conquests over her sex..Bothwell must have fascinated the Queen. 1941 tr. H. Rauschning Conservative Revol. xx. 280 I hope you will not imagine that I think a great peace could be a peace negotiated with the power that is the incorporation of Satanism. 1970 MLN 85 535 These words..voice the satanism of the erstwhile angel. 2015 B. Baker Contemp. Masculinities (2016) iii. xii. 219 Lecter's red or maroon eyes..express his Satanism. 2. The characteristics of the Satanic school of writers (see satanic adj. 3). Now rare. ΚΠ 1822 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 11 445 His Lakeism or his Satanism will not save the piece from being damned, if it be stupid. 1833 Fraser's Mag. 8 524 This scene of Byron's is really sublime, in spite of its Satanism. 1883 Sat. Rev. 1 Sept. 283/2 The Satanism of Byron and the Nullism of Leopardi. 1995 S. Bainbridge Napoleon & Eng. Romanticism vi. 183 Such a revolutionary reading of Paradise Lost..anticipates the ‘Satanism’ of Shelley and Byron. 3. Worship or veneration of Satan; devil worship; religious doctrines, beliefs, or practices based on this. Cf. Satanist n. 1b.Unambiguous references to organised worship of Satan earlier than the late 19th cent. are scarce. The term became popularized, along with the corresponding use of Satanist, through reports of alleged devil worship in France in the 1890s. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > kinds of worship > [noun] > of devils, demons, or the Devil > in 19th-century France Satanism1876 1876 Isle of Man Times 23 Sept. 3/4 The Hebrew nation..waged a ruthless war against the Pagan Baal, Moloch, Ashteroth, and Satanism in all its forms. 1895 Sat. Rev. 9 Mar. 313/1 ‘Là-Bas’, with its monstrous pictures of the Black Mass and the spiritual abominations of Satanism, is one step further in the direction of the supernatural. 1931 Inverell (Austral.) Times 14 Oct. The discovery of 30 mutilated bodies in a well at Malin (Finland) has led to suspicions of widespread ‘satanism’. 1971 Daily Mail 25 Nov. 12/1 The court was told that sumbols of black magic, witchcraft and Satanism were found at the home. 2004 Time Out N.Y. 11 Mar. 179/4 A 17th-century ‘witchfinder’ who travels throughout England executing unlucky citizens suspected of satanism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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