| 单词 | blood of the grape |
| 释义 | > as lemmasblood of the (also a) grape p. blood of the (also a) grape and variants: wine, esp. (with allusion to the blood of Christ) communion wine; (later also) grape juice. ΚΠ OE Vitellius Psalter: Canticles vi. 14 Sanguinem uuę biberet meracissimum : blod winberian hy druncon þæt niweste.] a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Bodl. 959) (1959) Gen. xlix. 11 He schal wasche..in blode of a grape [L. in sanguine uvae] his mantell. 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius f. 448 When it is named the blood of the grape, what els is declared then the wine of the cupp of the blood of the Lord? a1616 W. Shakespeare Timon of Athens (1623) iv. iii. 431 Go, sucke the subtle blood o' th' Grape . View more context for this quotation 1794 W. Shrubsole Plain Christian Shepherd's Def. of his Flock v. 51 This person was not plunged into the blood of the grapes; but he was sprinkled by treading the grapes. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick cxxxiii. 607 The sight of the splintered boat seemed to madden him, as the blood of grapes and mulberries cast before Antiochus's elephants in the book of Maccabees. 1995 R. E. Meagher tr. Euripides Bakkhai 13 When..the blood of the grape rushes in the veins, sleep is sure to come. < as lemmas |
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