| 单词 | to hold a taper to the devil |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto hold a taper to the devil a. Originally, A wax candle, in early times used chiefly for devotional or penitential purposes; now spec. a long wick coated with wax for temporary use as a spill, etc. to hold a taper to the devil: cf. candle n. Phrases 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > consumables > candle or light > [noun] taperc897 ciergec1300 candlea1400 trindle1537 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] candlea700 taperc897 ruff1440 taper-light1577 planet1843 the world > matter > light > artificial light > an artificial light > candle > [noun] > taper broach1377 gaudy1531 eche1551 taper1653 c897 K. Ælfred tr. Gregory Pastoral Care xxxvi. 258 He hiene onælð mid ðæm tapore [Hatton MS. tapure] ðæs godcundan liegges. c1000 Sax. Leechd. III. 202 Wex oððe taperas, gesihð blisse hit getacnat. a1100 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 267/12 Lampas, leohtfæt. Candela, candel. Papirus, taper. c1200 Trin. Coll. Hom. 47 On ure honde beren candele berninde, taper oðer candele. c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 19/12 Seint Dunstones moder taper a fuyre werth a-non. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 203 To a torche or a tapre þe trinitee is lykned. c1460 Brut 508 She was enioyned to open penaunce, forto go thrugh Chepe, bering a tapere in hir hand. 1513 Will of Robert Fabyan in R. Fabyan New Chrons. Eng. & France (1811) Pref. p. iv That they doo purvay for. iiii. tapers of. iii lb. evry pece, to brenne aboute the corps and herse for the forsaid. ii. seasons. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 279/1 Tapar of waxe, cierge. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 326 How ill this Taper burnes. View more context for this quotation 1635 A. Stafford Femall Glory 153 Very many Tapours were burning in the Church. 1653 T. Gataker Vindic. Annot. Jer. 10.2 36 To stoop so low, as to bear a taper before the Divel. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Taper, a long and large siz'd Light made in form of a Pyramid made of Wax, and made use of in Churches for the most part. 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fifth 43 Our Birth is nothing but our Death begun; As Tapers wast, that Instant they take Fire. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey II. 115 The number of tapers, which,..on festivals, were lighted in all parts of it [a church]. 1878 T. H. Huxley Physiography (ed. 2) 79 A glowing taper bursts into flame when plunged into oxygen. < as lemmas |
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