单词 | turlupin |
释义 | † Turlupinn. Obsolete. rare. 1. A name given to a sect of heretics in the 14th cent., who are said to have maintained that one ought not to be ashamed of anything that is natural. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Turlupins > [noun] Turlupin1639 1639 T. Fuller Hist. Holy Warre iii. xix. 141 Turlupins; that is, Dwellers with wolves..being forced to flee into woods. 1804 A. Ranken Hist. France III. ii. § i. 198 We shall not trace their [the Waldenses'] progress under the new names of Wickliffites, Lollards, Turlupins, Bohemians, etc. in other countries. 1884 P. Schaff et al. Relig. Encycl. III. 2407/2 Gregory XI in 1373 urged the king of France to support the Dominicans against the Turlupins. 1910 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 592/2 [A woman, Jeanne Daubenton] being the head of a sect called the Turlupins. The Turlupins reappeared in 1421 at Arras and Douai and were persecuted in a similar way. 2. By Urquhart taken to render French tirelupin in Rabelais, said by Duchat to be a name given in 1372 to a certain people who imitated Cynics, and lived on lupins which they gathered (tiraient) in the fields.Cotgrave and Littré (who spells tirelopin) treat this as a separate word. Cotgrave has ‘Tirelupin, a catch-bit, or captious companion; a scowndrell, or scuruie fellow’; ‘Turlupin, a grub, mushrome, start-up, new-nothing, man of no value’. Urquhart applied Cotgrave's explanation of turlupin to tirelupin. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > race > person of mythical races > [noun] > specific race Amazona1398 Turlupin1653 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 1st Bk. Wks. Prol. 6 So saith a Turlupin or a new start-up grub of my books, but a turd for him [Fr. Aultant en dict ung Tirelupin de mes livres: mais bren pour luy]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1915; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < |
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