单词 | sunship |
释义 | > as lemmassunship sunship n. [ < sun n.1 + -ship suffix] now somewhat rare (chiefly with possessive adjective) a (mock) title of respect for the sun or a sun god. ΚΠ 1672 tr. J. Commire Fable Sun & Frogs 4 Bidding his Sunship threaten'd Vengeance fear, Unless with speed he stop his swift Career. 1836 E. A. Poe in Southern Lit. Messenger Mar. 236/1 You need not look up at the heavens, his Sunship is not there—at least not the Sunship adored by the Syrians. That deity..is worshipped under the figure of a large stone pillar. 1904 A. Brooks Randy's Summer xi. 199 The sun rose in golden splendor one morning to find that a curtain of purple haze prevented his sunship from showing all his dazzling glory. 1996 S. G. Desai Crit. Study Later Upanishads 29 As the most fundamental in Visnu, there appears to be his sunship as bird, Suparna, who goes on high, awakening earth and having a thousand rays or flames, the golden germ, having the seven steeds of the Sun. < as lemmas |
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