| 单词 | stupor of the world |
| 释义 | > as lemmas(the) stupor of the world b. With of. A person pre-eminent in a specified class, sphere, or place; one who is an object of wonder or admiration. Now rare and only in (the) stupor of the world, ‘wonder of the world’, used as an epithet for the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II (1194–1250).This sense appears to have fallen out of use after the 17th cent.; the phrase (the) stupor of the world was apparently revived in the 20th cent. as a calque on the Latin phrase stupor mundi (see stupor mundi n.). ΚΠ 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered viii. 26 You Cynosura and Lucifer of nations, the stupor and admiration of the world, the admirable scholler of the Brittish soyle. 1619 S. Purchas Microcosmus lxxiii. 727 What shall we say of Him,..the great Stupor and Wonder of Diuines? 1695 M. Micklethwait tr. Hist. Olivaires of Castile xxiv. 93 The Judges affirmed that he was the Stupor of Chivalry, and the whole Court went off amazed at his Valour. 1930 New Statesman 26 Apr. 83/2 They helped..Frederick the Second, the Stupor of the world, who so nearly overset the mediæval scheme. a1983 R. Payne Dream & Tomb: Hist. of Crusades (2000) 305 Matthew Paris called him Stupor Mundi et immutator mirabilis—Stupor of the world and marvelous changer of things. < as lemmas |
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