| 单词 | the old serpent |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Old Serpent 2. The serpent, ‘more subtil than any beast of the field’, that tempted Eve (Genesis iii. 1–5); the Tempter, the Devil, Satan. Also, the Old Serpent (after Revelation xii. 9). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] devileOE Beelzebubc950 the foul ghosteOE SatanOE warlockOE SatanasOE worsea1200 unwinea1225 wondc1250 quedea1275 pucka1300 serpenta1300 dragon1340 shrew1362 Apollyon1382 the god of this worldc1384 Mahoundc1400 leviathan1412 worsta1425 old enemyc1449 Ruffin1567 dismal1570 Plotcocka1578 the Wicked One1582 goodman1603 Mahu1603 foul thief1609 somebody1609 legiona1616 Lord of Flies1622 walliman1629 shaitan1638 Old Nicka1643 Nick1647 unsel?1675 old gentleman1681 old boy1692 the gentleman in black1693 deuce1694 Black Spy1699 the vicious one1713 worricow1719 Old Roger1725 Lord of the Flies1727 Simmie1728 Old Scratch1734 Old Harry1777 Old Poker1784 Auld Hornie1786 old (auld), ill thief1789 old one1790 little-good1821 Tom Walker1833 bogy1840 diabolarch1845 Old Ned1859 iniquity1899 a1300 Fall & Passion 26 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 13 A serpent he [þe deuil] com þroȝ felonie an makid eue chonge hir þoȝt. 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Rev. xii. 9 The greet olde serpent, that is clepid the Deuel. 1420–2 J. Lydgate Story of Thebes 4663 Lucyfer, fader of Envie, The olde Serpent, he levyathan. ?a1450 J. Lydgate Serpent of Div. (1911) 50 The contagious Serpent of Division eclipsed and appalled theire worthines. 1534 in Norwich Pageants (1856) 17 It. to Edmd Thurston playeng ye Serpent, 4d. 1555 R. Eden in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde Pref. sig. aiij The oulde serpente who hath so longe had them in hys possession. 1622 J. Mabbe tr. M. Alemán Rogue i. 243 Being put into such a Paradise of Conserues, the Serpent of the flesh might tempt me to eate of this forbidden fruit. 1657 J. Trapp Comm. Psalms xvi. 4 It was the Serpents grammar that first taught men to decline God in the plurall number. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost xii. 454 The Serpent, Prince of aire. View more context for this quotation 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers 31 Some Men have the Nature of the Serpent (that old Adversary) to sting, envenom and poison. 1859 Ld. Tennyson Enid in Idylls of King 79 Some, whose souls the old serpent long had drawn Down. < as lemmas |
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