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Jove|ˈdʒəʊv|
[ad. L. Jov-em acc. (other oblique cases Jovis, Jovi, Jove) of OL. Jovis, for which in the classical period the compound Juppiter, Jūpiter (= Jovis-pater) was substituted; in It. Giove.]
1. a. A poetical equivalent of Jupiter, name of the highest deity of the ancient Romans: = Jupiter 1. b. Colloquially used in the asseveration by Jove: cf. L. pro Juppiter, pro Jovem.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 673 (722) Ioue ek for þe loue of faire Europe, The whiche in forme of bole a-way þow fette. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, ii. iv. 100 Therefore in fierce Tempest is he comming, In Thunder and in Earth-quake, like a Ioue. 1672Wilkins Nat. Relig. 51 Believing but one supreme Deity, the Father of all other subordinate powers:..whom they called Jupiter or Jove, with plain reference to the Hebrew name Jehovah. 1738Pope Univ. Prayer i, In ev'ry clime adored By saint, by savage, and by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! 1886Sir T. Martin tr. Faust 120, I even upheaved the glorious seat of Jove.
b.1575R. B. Appius & Virginia in Hazl. Dodsley IV. 124 By Jove, master merchant..Would get but small argent, if I did not stand His very good master. 1588Shakes. L.L.L. v. ii. 495 By Ioue, I alwaies tooke three threes for nine. 1698Farquhar Love & Bottle iii. i, Luc. Did you ever see me before? Roeb. Never, by Jove. 1818S. E. Ferrier Marriage ix, ‘Venus and the Graces, by Jove’, exclaimed Sir Sampson. 1885M. E. Braddon Wyllard's Weird I. i. 24 By Jove! here comes the Coroner.
c. In names of plants, as Jove's beard = Jupiter's beard (Treas. Bot. 1866); Jove's fruit, a variety of wild Allspice or Feverbush (Lindera melissæfolia), growing in the southern United States (ibid.); Jove's nut (dial.), the acorn (Halliw. 1847–78).
2. The planet Jupiter (poetic). Hence (like Jupiter)
b. Her. = Azure;
c. Alch. Tin.
c1374Chaucer Troylus iii. 576 (625) Saturne and Ioue in Cancro Ioyned were. 1562Leigh Armorie (1597) 129 The Torse is by nature wreathed with pure colours of wise Ioue and Pale Luna, Manteled of the first. 1599T. M[oufet] Silkwormes 45 When Ioue they turne to Sol or Luna fine. 1732Pope Ess. Man i. 42 Ask..Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove. 1784Cowper Tiroc. 634 The moons of Jove, and Saturn's belted ball.
3. Comb., as Jove begotten, Jove-born, Jove-like, etc., adjs.
1613Heywood Silv. Age iii. i. Wks. 1874 III. 123 Yet in her wombe the Ioue-bred Issue striues. 1634Milton Comus 676 Not that Nepenthes, which the wife of Thone In Egypt gave to Jove-born Helena. 1725Pope Odyss. xxiv. 581 The Jove-descended Maid. 1774Epist. to Sir W. Chambers Her. Postscr. 84 So when o'er Crane Court's philosophic gods The Jove-like majesty of Pringle nods. 1848Buckley Homer's Iliad 115 There Jove-beloved Hector entered. |