单词 | shepherd king |
释义 | shepherd kingn. 1. plural. The designation of a succession of kings of Egypt (forming the 15th and 16th dynasties of Manetho), belonging to some foreign people, probably of mixed Semitic-Asiatic stock. (By historians often called Hyksos n.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > dynasty > [noun] > specific Egyptian shepherd kings1587 the Shepherds1759 shepherd1813 Old Kingdom1889 New Kingdom1902 1587 Sir P. Sidney & A. Golding tr. P. de Mornay Trewnesse Christian Relig. xxvi. 465 Manethon the Historiographer of Egipt setteth vs downe their originall, and their comming downe into Egipt, terming them in his language, Shepeherd-kings. 1821 C. Lamb Old & New Schoolmaster in Elia 1st Ser. I make the wildest conjectures concerning Egypt, and her shepherd kings. 1874 S. Birch 1st & 2nd Egypt. Rooms Brit. Museum 7 The monuments of the Shepherd kings. 2. gen. A king who is a shepherd. (In various nonce-uses: see quots.) ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > sovereign ruler or monarch > king > [noun] > other types of king folk-kingOE boy-king1603 priest-king1606 shepherd king1744 king-emperor1789 1744 J. Thomson Summer in Seasons (new ed.) 71 One, chief, in gracious Dignity inthron'd, Shines o'er the Rest, the pastoral Queen, and rays Her Smiles, sweet-beaming, on her Shepherd-King. a1835 F. D. Hemans He Walk'd with God in Wks. (1839) VI. 174 A shepherd king on eastern plains. 1856 C. Reade It is never too Late II. xvii. 168 Nomades, shepherd-kings—fellows with a thousand head of horned cattle and sheep like white pebbles by the sea. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < |
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