| 单词 | aeon-old |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaeon-old Similative and instrumental, as aeon-battered, aeon-long, aeon-old, etc., adjectives; occasionally with nouns. ΚΠ 1877 S. Cox Salvator Mundi v. 101 An earlier form of our word œonial, or œonian, which means aeon-long or age-long; a word not infrequent in our poetry and books of science. 1916 E. Sitwell & O. Sitwell 20th-cent. Harlequinade 25 From far within his æon-battered brain Well up those wanton wistful images. 1923 Blackwood's Mag. July 61/3 The aeon-long passage of water a-down the rock has worn its surface to a glassy smoothness. 1938 W. de la Mare Memory & Other Poems 29 A storm-cock shrilled its aeon-old refrain. 1948 E. Sitwell Notebk. on Shakespeare vi. 53 In one of the most terrible aeon-moments of the play. 1989 Washington Post (Nexis) 31 Dec. x. 4 Rama II, the hollow cylinder 30 miles long, would seemingly offer marvels enough as it slowly wakens from its eon-long slumber between the stars. < as lemmas |
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