| 单词 | secular games |
| 释义 | > as lemmassecular games 5. Occurring or celebrated once in an age, century, or very long period. secular games, secular plays, secular shows [Latin ludi saeculares] : in ancient Rome, games continuing three days and three nights celebrated once in an ‘age’ or period of 120 years. secular poem [Latin carmen saeculare] , a hymn composed to be sung at the secular games. ΘΚΠ the world > time > frequency > infrequency > [adjective] seld1398 seldom1483 rare1565 secular1599 unfrequent1611 straggling1618 infrequent1622 unobvious1643 far-between1743 rarish1772 unwonted1785 sporadic1842 low frequency1946 1599 R. Pont Newe Treat. Right Reckoning of Yeares 34 Supposing that they celebrate their secular solemnities at the precise end and periode of every hundreth yeare. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. viii. xlii. 221 The secular solemnities, exhibited by Claudius Cæsar, in the Circensian games. 1606 P. Holland tr. Suetonius Hist. Twelve Caesars 52 He restored againe..the Sæcular playes. 1696 B. Kennett Romæ Antiquæ Notitia ii. v. vii. 292 The famous Secular Poem of Horace was compos'd for this last Day, in the Secular Games held by Augustus. 1697 J. Evelyn Numismata iii. 62 To..divert the People..during the Secular Shews. 1706 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. 3 Apr. (O.H.S.) I. 215 A letter sent to our University from the University of Francfort..inviting them to celebrate the secular day of the Foundation of their University, wch will happen in this month, it being now just two Hundred years since that University was Founded. 1716 J. Addison Freeholder No. 46. ⁋1 When Augustus celebrated the secular year, which was kept but once in a century. 1790 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 418 Had a fortnight more been given to the philosopher, he might have celebrated his secular festival [sc. his hundredth birthday]. 1862 C. Merivale Hist. Romans under Empire VII. lxviii. 579 One man asserted that the secular fire would descend at the moment when..he should be seen transformed into a stork. 1869 G. Rawlinson Man. Anc. Hist. 509 M. Julius Philippus..celebrated the secular games in commemoration of the thousandth year from the founding of the city. 1884 Q. Rev. July 1 Changes in..the City..have been going on at a rate..unknown to any former generation, except those distant generations which have witnessed the rare and secular phenomena of siege, fire, and plague. < as lemmas |
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