| 单词 | spleen-piercing |
| 释义 | > as lemmasspleen-piercing C2. spleen-born, spleen-devoured, spleen-pained, spleen-piercing, spleen-shaped, spleen-sick, spleen-struck, spleen-swollen adjs. ΚΠ 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Kiii/1 Splensicke, spleneticus. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. Index s.v. For the Spleene pained, swelled, hard, obstructed, or otherwise diseased. 1609 Euerie Woman in her Humor sig. A4 Another with a spleene deuoured face, Her eies as hollow as Anatomy. a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia in Poems (1878) III. To Rdr. 128 A fine Spleen-peirceing Witt. 1677 G. Miege New Dict. French & Eng. ii. sig. Zz 3/3 Splenetick, Spleen-sick, or troubled with the Spleen. 1764 C. Churchill Gotham i. 14 A gloom, thro' which to spleen-struck minds, Religion, horror-stamp'd, a passage finds. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals Pref. They are usually spleen-swoln from a vain idea of increasing their consequence. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Merlin & Vivien 552 in Idylls of King You breathe but accusation vast and vague, Spleen-born, I think, and proofless. 1888 G. Rolleston & W. H. Jackson Forms Animal Life (ed. 2) 113 A spleen-shaped body, the albuminiparous gland. < as lemmas |
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