单词 | aeolist |
释义 | aeolistn. rare. A derogatory term for: a person who claims to speak with divine inspiration or who behaves as if inspired.In later use chiefly alluding to Swift. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > excitement > inspiration > [noun] > source of > specific person > pretender to inspiration aeolist1704 1704 J. Swift Tale of Tub viii. 146 The Learned Æolists, maintain the Original Cause of all Things to be Wind. 1708 Dissuasive against Enthusiasm 46 The first Rise of this new Sect of Æolists. 1714 Ess. Divine, Moral & Polit. i. 3 In Scotia, or the Land of Darkness, the Religious Rites and Misteries of the Eolists, is the Establish'd Religion. 1800 Sceptic 62 He is a dashing empiric of the new school,—called the Æolists,—or the quacks-pneumatic. 1825 Examiner 13 Feb. 104/2 The majority of good folks..have acted..under the operation of certain Eolists of the press (vide Tale of a Tub). 1934 Stud. in Philol. 31 492 His disposal of Aeolists,..and his discoveries about human nature as recorded by Gulliver are still significant judgments on a mad world. 1970 Amer. Lit. 41 497 The villain responsible for this alteration is William... He is, most notably, a philosophic Aeolist. 2002 J. Manning Emblem (2004) v. 182 Breathings, pantings, sighs and whispers—the whole Aeolist repertory of religious enthusiasm. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1704 |
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