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Stonehenge|stəʊnˈhɛndʒ|
Forms: α. 2 Stanenges, Stanenheng, Stanheng, 3–4 Stonheng(e, 5 Stone hengles, Stonehenges, 5– Stonehenge. β. 6 stonege, 7 stonage.
[f. stone n.; the second element may have meant something ‘hanging’ or supported in the air: cf. OE. hęnge-clif ‘præruptum’ (Suppl. to ælfric's Glossary); in the compound the word was prob. originally plural.
A spurious form Stanhengest occurs in some Latin chronicles (a 1500) in connexion with a story of a massacre of British nobles by Hengist at Stonehenge.]
Name of a celebrated stone circle on Salisbury Plain; hence applied allusively to similar structures elsewhere.
α11..Henry of Huntingdon Hist. Angl. i. (Rolls) 12 Quatuor autem sunt, quæ mira videntur in Anglia... Secundum est, apud Stanenges. 11..Geoffrey of Monm. Hist. Brit. xi. iv. (1844) 204 Intra lapidum structuram sepultus fuit, quæ haud longe a Salesberia mira arte composita, Anglorum lingua Stanheng nuncupatur. 1297R. Glouc. (Rolls) 3222 Ac arst was þe king ybured..Wiþinne þe place of stonheng [v. rr. þe stonheng; stonhenge]. 1470Hardyng Chron. lxx. (1812) 117 The Giauntes carole,..The stone hengles [v.r. Stonehenges], that nowe so named been. Ibid. lxxxvi. 150 Whiche called is the stone Hengles [v.r. Stonehenge]. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 251 (Wilshire) Certaine mighty and unwrought stones,..upon the heads of which, others like ouerthwart peeces do beare and rest crossewise,..so as the whole frame seemeth to hang: whereof we call it Stonehenge. a1722Toland Hist. Druids Coll. Pieces (1726) I. 23 Hard by is her Temple; being a sort of diminutive Stonehenge. 1801J. Barrow Trav. S. Africa I. 373 The..fragments..rolling from the upper ridges, had tumbled on each other, forming natural..colonnades, and Stonehenges. 1821Scott Pirate xl, A rising ground, whence they commanded a full view of the Orcadian Stonehenge. 1840Dickens Old C. Shop xxxvi, A dreary waste of cold potatoes, looking as eatable as Stonehenge.
β1547Boorde Introd. Knowl. i. (1870) 120 Vpon the playn of Salysbury is the stonege, whyche is certayne great stones, some standyng, and some lyenge ouerthawart. 1647G. Tooke Belides 39 As who with skill,..his journey manage will, Does often from the beaten road withdraw, Or to behold a Stonage, taste a Spaw, Or [etc.]. a1670[Gibbons] Fools Bolt soon shot at Stonage in Hearne P. Langtoft's Chron. II. 505 The Israelites..did by God's command erect a stonage of twelve Stones in the midst of Jordan. 1701C. Leslie Short Method with Deists i. (ed. 3) 17 Ther is the Stonage in Salisbury-Plain. Everybody knows it. Ibid. 18 Now let us Compare this with the Stonage, as I may call it, or Twelve Great Stones set up at Gilgal. |