单词 | circler |
释义 | circlern. 1. One who encircles or surrounds; circler of the earth, transl. of Greek γαιήοχος. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [noun] > Neptune NeptuneOE earth-shaker1580 tridentifer1600 circler of the earth?1611 trident-bearer1749 water monarch1785 trident-swayer1904 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xiii. 42 Neptune, circler of the earth [γαιήοχος]. 1791 W. Cowper tr. Homer Odyssey in Iliad & Odyssey II. viii. 431 Earth-circler Neptune, spare me that request. 2. One who or that which moves in a circle. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > movement in circle or curve > [noun] > movement in circle > one who or that which moves in a circle circler1780 1780 Sir W. Jones in S. Parr Wks. (1828) VII. 209 Who made the nightly circlers, the stars. 1805 R. Southey Madoc in Aztlan xii Toward the ground The aërial circlers speed. 3. Used to translate Latin scriptor cyclicus, cyclic poet. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poet > poet by kind of poem > [noun] > epic or heroic poet > poet of epic cycle circlera1637 Cyclic poeta1822 a1637 B. Jonson tr. Horace Art of Poetrie 195 in Wks. (1640) III Nor so begin, as did that Circler, late, I sing a noble warre, and Priams fate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.?1611 |
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