单词 | steracle |
释义 | † steraclen. Obsolete. A spectacle, show. Also with play on miracle. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > a public show or spectacle > [noun] spectaclea1340 speculationc1440 steracle14.. triumphc1503 show1565 sprank1568 ostentation1598 presentationa1616 exposition1649 gauds1652 raree-show1681 spectacle1749 exhibition1761 draw1881 spectacular1890 14.. Pain Evil Marr. in Mapes' Poems (Camden) 297 At staracles to sitte on high stages. c1450 Jacob's Well (1900) 105 To gon to wakys & to wrestlynges, to daunsynges & to steraclys. 1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus iv. iv. sig. Tiijv Why whippest thou it about, or playest thou thy steracles. a1563 J. Bale King Johan (1969) i. 997 With ymages and rellyckes he shall wurke sterracles. 1564 T. Becon Actes Christ & Antichrist f. ccccxviv, in Wks. iii But to pray at..places..where the deuil worketh stiracles, I would say, miracles,..this passeth al. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1916; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < |
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