单词 | crypto-lunatic |
释义 | > as lemmascrypto-lunatic crypto-lunatic n. Brit. /ˌkrɪptəʊˈluːnətɪk/ , U.S. /ˌkrɪptoʊˈlunəˌtɪk/ ΚΠ 1879 Southern Med. Rec. 9 191 A world in which one man in a thousand is probably a crypto-lunatic, anxious, above all things, for a supreme sensation. 1889 Spectator 16 Nov. M. Thiers..allowed many thousand persons, half of them crypto-lunatics, to be executed. 1931 J. Langdon-Davies Sci. & Common Sense xi. 268 One effect of Jeans and Eddington is likely to be an increased interest in entropy on the part of lunatics and crypto-lunatics. < as lemmas |
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