单词 | aeromancer |
释义 | aeromancern. rare. A person who engages in aeromancy; one who practises divination through the interpretation of the weather or other atmospheric phenomena. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination by natural phenomena > [noun] > by air > one who practises aeromancerc1475 c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 96 Ayeromauncers þat wirkun bi þe eyre. 1705 tr. D. de Saavedra Fajardo Commonw. of Learning 76 The Hydromancers prognosticated by Rings hanging in Vessels of Water... The Aeromancers by the Impressions of the Air. 1991 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) (Nexis) 7 Sept. Had their aeromancers, those who studied atmospheric phenomena, looked into the almost unremittingly blue Queensland skies of the past few months, they may well have arrived at the same conclusion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1475 |
随便看 |
英语词典包含1132095条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。