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hippogriff, -gryph|ˈhɪpəʊgrɪf|
[a. F. hippogriffe (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), ad. It. ippogrifo (Ariosto), f. Gr. ἵππο-ς horse +It. grifo, late L. grȳphus griffin.]
A fabulous creature, like a griffin, but with body and hind-quarters resembling those of a horse.
1656Blount Glossogr., Hippogryph, a kind of feigned beast, in part horse, in part Griffin. a1659Cleveland Poems, Chym. Magic 2 Tell us no more of Icarus, Of Hypo⁓gryph, or Pegasus. 1671Milton P.R. iv. 542 He caught him up, and without wing Of hippogrif, bore through the air sublime. 1790Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1814) III. 487 The African magician..sends him to wander through the air on a hippogrif. 1856J. H. Newman Callista 222 She thinks herself a Christian, when she is just as much a hippogriff, or a chimæra.
b. transf. and fig.
1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. iv. iv, Woe the day when they mounted thee..on that wild Hippogryff of a Democracy; which..no yet known Astolpho could have ridden! 1864H. Vámbéry Trav. Centr. Asia 146, I was obliged, however, to tug a long time at the reins, before I could induce my long-eared hippogriff to change his headlong career.
Also † hippoˈgriffic, -ˈgriffin, -on, -ˈgryphon.
1654Gayton Pleas. Notes iii. xi. 147 Or Pacolets, or Bradamants, or Hippo-gryphon. 1656Earl of Monmouth Advt. fr. Parnass. 368 Poets in their writings had mentioned Tritons,..Sirins, Hypogriffiks, Phenixes. 1798W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. XXVI. 247 Ariosto, whose hippogriffon so few have since been able to govern. 1848C. C. Clifford Aristoph., Frogs 31 Not hippogriffins, sir, nor yet stag-goats. |