| 单词 | the brute creation |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe brute creation 1. Of animals: wanting in reason or understanding; chiefly in phrases brute beasts, the brute creation, = the ‘lower animals’. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > lack of understanding > lack of reason, irrationality > [adjective] > of animals, things, etc. out of (all) reasonc1390 reasonlessa1450 brutea1475 a1475 Bk. Quinte Essence (1889) 11 Fro fleisch of alle brute beestis. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxxii. f. cxliiiv Great moreyne fell vpon the brute bestes. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 55 More senselesse, than the senselest or brutest beast in the world. 1611 M. Smith in Bible (King James) Transl. Pref. 1 Bruit-beasts led with sensualitie. 1613 G. Wither Abuses Stript i. v, in Juvenilia (1633) 42 Viler than the brutest creature. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 495 The brute Serpent in whose shape Man I deceav'd. View more context for this quotation 1703 N. Rowe Fair Penitent iii. i Whose bounteous Hand feeds the whole Brute Creation. 1732 G. Berkeley Alciphron I. i. xiii. 48 To degrade Humane Kind to a level with Brute Beasts. 1832 G. Downes Lett. from Continental Countries I. 46 Not a being, human or brute, appeared. 1849 W. Irving Mahomet (1853) x. 59 The very brute animals were charmed to silence. < as lemmas |
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