| 释义 |
discreate, v.|dɪskriːˈeɪt|
[f. dis- 6 + create v.]
trans. To uncreate, annihilate, reduce to nothing or to chaos (anything created).
1570Dee Math. Pref. 4 There and then, that particular thyng shalbe Discreated. 1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. ii. 318 Both vniting..appeas'd the brall, Which doubtless else had discreated all. c1845Clough Early Poems, Ἐπὶ λάτµῳ 40 Self-created, discreated, Recreated, ever fresh, Ever young! 1870Swinburne Ode Proclam. Fr. Rep., Thou hast set thine hand to unmake and discreate.
Hence discreˈated ppl. a.; also discreˈation, the action of uncreating; the undoing of creation.
1627–77Feltham Resolves ii. lxxvii. 324 The latter is a double Creation, or at least a Dis-creation, and Creation too. a1628F. Greville Sidney x. (1652) 130 The dark Prince, that sole author of dis-creation and disorder. 1879G. Macdonald Sir Gibbie III. vii. 108 The strange, eerie, silent waste, crowded with the chaos of dis-created homes. |