| 释义 |
deathling rare.|ˈdɛθlɪŋ|
[See -ling.]
1. One subject to death, a mortal. Also attrib.
1598Sylvester Du Bartas ii. i. Imposture 374 Alas fond death-lings! 1839Bailey Festus xiv. (1848) 151 Deathlings! on earth drink, laugh and love! 1886Way tr. Iliad xii, Zeus..Who over the deathling race and the deathless beareth sway.
2. pl. Young Deaths, the offspring of Death personified. (nonce-use.)
1730Swift Poems, Death & Daphne, His realm had need That Death should get a num'rous breed; Young deathlings.
†3. Gogs deathlings: ‘by God's death’, an oath.
1611Cotgr., Mordienne, Gogs deathlings; a foolish oath in Rab[elais]. |