| 单词 | the great, general or universal flood |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe great, general or universal flood b. the flood: the great deluge recorded in the book of Genesis as occurring in the time of Noah; hence often Noah's flood; also, the great, general or universal flood. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > flood or flooding > [noun] > Biblical Noah's floodOE the floodOE diluvya1325 delugec1386 diluvec1386 sin-flood1550 cataclysm1637 Noachian deluge1711 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > the flood Noah's floodOE the floodOE Yore-flood1876 OE Beowulf 1689 Flod ofsloh..giganta cyn. c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) xvii. 27 Flod com and ealle forspilde. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Hit itimode efter noes flode. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xiv. iv. 697 Ararat is þe hiȝest hille of Armenye. Þerinne þe shippe restede aftir þe flode. c1450 tr. Thomas à Kempis De Imitatione Christi iii. xxxvi Euery flesshe had corrupte his wey, and þer fore folowed þe gret flode. 1539 T. Elyot Castel of Helthe (new ed.) 32 b The vniuersall deluge or floudde. c1571 E. Campion Two Bks. Hist. Ireland (1963) i. vii. 27 Thre hundred yeres after the generall flood. 1734 A. Pope Ess. Man: Epist. IV 202 If your ancient but ignoble blood Has crept thro' Scoundrels ever since the Flood. a1839 W. M. Praed Poems (1864) I. 199 You would have sworn..He had fished in the flood with Ham and Shem! < as lemmas |
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