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‖ lar|lɑː(r)|
Pl. ‖ lares |ˈlɛəriːz|, lars |lɑːz|. Also 7 larre.
[L. lār, pl. larēs, earlier lasēs.]
1. Roman Myth.
a. pl. (Freq. with capital initial.) The tutelary deities of a house; household gods; hence, the home. Often coupled with penates.
b. sing. A household or ancestral deity; also transf. and fig.
1586T. B. La Primaud, Fr. Acad. i. (1594) 473 The ancients had a private and houshold god, whom they called lar, which we may translate into our language, the god of the harth. 1600Holland Livy viii. ix. 287 O yee Lares and domestical gods. 1629Milton Christ's Nativity 191 In consecrated Earth, And on the holy Hearth, The Lars, and Lemures moan with midnight plaint. 1647R. Stapylton Juvenal 278 Build houses; joyne to ours anothers lares; Sleepe safe, confiding in our neighbours cares. 1648Herrick Hesper., Pan. to Sir L. Pemberton 4 To thee, thy lady, younglings and as farre As to thy genius and thy larre. 1742Pope Dunc. iv. 366 So shall each youth..keep his Lares, tho' his house be sold. 1775H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 270, I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats. 1832L. Hunt Poems 239 So shall no disease or jar Hurt thy house, or chill thy Lar. 1889Lowell Oracle of Goldfishes Last Poems (1895) 14 You were my wonders, you my Lars, In darkling days my sun and stars. 1889Athenæum 20 July 88/3 Thomas Pitt..through his sons and daughters, the great lar of not fewer than five families in the English peerage.
†c. A sprite, hobgoblin. Obs.
1598Florio, Mazzaruolo, a sprite..a hodgpoker, a lar in the chimney.
2. Zool. The white-handed gibbon of Burmah, Hylobates lar.
1819Rees Cycl. s.v., The lar, or, as it is sometimes denominated the gibbon. 1859Wood Nat. Hist. I. 34 The Lar, or White-handed Gibbon.
▸ lares and penates n. (a) Roman Mythol. household gods; = sense 1a; (b) household belongings regarded as defining or embodying a person's home; prized possessions. Cf. penates n.
1616B. Jonson Entertainm. at Theobalds in Wks. (ed. 2) 888 A glorious place, figuring the Lararium, or seat of the household-gods, where both the Lares, and Penates, were painted. 1653A. Ross Πανσεβεια xv. 556 Hence it appears that they were forced to have Deities in every place: at home they had their Lares and Penates. 1775H. Walpole Lett. (1857) VI. 270, I am returned to my own Lares and Penates—to my dogs and cats. 1852Frederick Douglass' Paper (Rochester, N.Y.) (Electronic ed.) 24 Dec. The steward is occasionally such a home-body, that he will establish his lares and penates on each side of the Atlantic. 1975M. H. Wolf I'll take Back Road iv. 121 Most of my grandmother's lares and penates were ‘too nice to use’; the Baleek tea set,..and the complete sets of Emerson and Hawthorne, all were out of bounds. 1995S. E. Grace Sursum Corda! I. 416 Lares and penates were beneficent Roman gods who watched over a household. |