单词 | talapoin |
释义 | talapoinn. 1. A Buddhist monk or priest, properly of Pegu; extended by Europeans to those of Siam (Thailand), Burma (Myanmar), and other Buddhist countries. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monk > [noun] > Buddhist talapoin1586 pongyi1788 1586 R. Fitch in Hakl. Voy. (1599) II. 261 There are..many goodly houses for the Tallipoies to preach in. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 464 They..hidde themselues in woods and wildernesses, and some turned Talopoyes: so they call their religious persons. 1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 195 The Priests [of Pegu] are called Tallapois. 1696 J. Ovington Voy. Suratt 593 These Religious they call Telapoi, who are not unlike Mendicant Fryers, living upon the Alms of the People. 1713 R. Steele in Guardian 14 Mar. 2/1 The Talapoins of Siam have a Book of Scripture written by Sommonocodom. 1752 D. Hume Ess. & Treat. (1809) II. 463 The excessive penances of the Brachmans and Talapoins. 1801 Asiatic Ann. Reg. 1800 Misc. Tracts 43/1 Those philosophical begging monks, known under the name of Talapoins, who, in the first century of the Christian æra, emigrated from India, and introduced the religion of Buddha, or Goutama, in Pegu, Siam, China, and Japan. 1858 P. Bigandet in tr. Life Gaudama 234 The Phongies, or Budhist Religious, sometimes called Talapoins. 2. Zoology. (In full talapoin monkey.) A small West African monkey, Cercopithecus talapoin. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > mammals > order Primates > suborder Anthropoidea (higher primates) > [noun] > group Catarrhinae (Old World monkey) > family Cercopithecidae talapoin1774 gelada1843 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth IV. 234 The eighth is the Talapoin;..distinguished..by its beautiful variety of green, white, and yellow hair. 1827 E. Griffith et al. Cuvier's Animal Kingdom 11 The Talapoin Monkey..inhabits Africa. 1868 Museum Nat. Hist. I. 30 The mone (Cercopithecus Mona) is a species nearly allied to the talapoin. 1896 List Vertebrated Animals Gardens Zool. Soc. (ed. 9) 7 Cercopithecus talapoin... Talapoin Monkey. Hab. West Africa. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1586 |
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