单词 | sub jove frigido |
释义 | sub jove frigidoadv. Now rare. Under the chilly sky; in the open air. Cf. sub dio adv. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > gas > air > fresh air > [phrase] > in the open air in the street(s)a1400 in the weathera1513 in overt1599 sub dio1602 in fresco1620 on (also upon) the street(s)1653 sub jove frigido1806 1806 G. Caines N.-Y. Term Rep. 3 181 What gentleman..would mount his steed, and..‘sub jove frigido’, or a vertical sun, pursue the windings of this wily quadruped, if, just as night came on..a saucy intruder..were permitted to come in at the death? 1819 W. Scott Bride of Lammermoor i, in Tales of my Landlord 3rd Ser. I. 8 A peripatetic brother of the brush, who exercised his vocation sub Jove frigido. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain I. i. 121 Not sub Jove frigido, but amid the bursting, life-pregnant vegetation of the South. 1900 C. White Hist. Austral. Bushranging I. v. 199 The man, who evidently had no desire to lie sub jove frigido in that inclement season of the year..at once raised an objection. 1906 F. L. Petre Republic of Colombia 190 A sober German like Dr. Hettner considers it no mean task, with its necessity for at least one night spent, sub jove frigido, on the bleak Paramo de Ruiz. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adv.1806 |
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