| 单词 | shirt of fire |
| 释义 | > as lemmasshirt of fire (also flame) shirt of fire (also flame) n. poetic used with reference to the body being enveloped by flames, or to death by burning. N.E.D. (1914), citing only quot. 1853, gives the definition as ‘the tunica molesta (Juvenal Sat. viii. 235), a tunic “smeared with inflammable materials” (Seneca Ep. xiv. 5) in which persons condemned to death by burning were enveloped’, but evidence is lacking that the phrase has been used in this literal sense. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > tunic worn shirt of fire1649 1649 tr. Alcoran xxii. 204 The Infidels shall be encompassed with flames of Hell, they shall have shirts of fire, boyling water shall flow in upon their heads. 1853 A. Smith Life-Drama ii, in Poems 20 Like a pale martyr in his shirt of fire. 1909 Votes for Women 18 June 819/1 Whether the old-time martyr, in his 'shirt of flame', was either a dignified or beautiful figure to the lookers-on is a question. 2007 Greece & Rome 54 235 A tortuous journey..will climax in the hero's immolation by the shirt of fire. < as lemmas |
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