英语词汇“death penny”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

death penny n. †(a) Scottish (apparently) a penny paid as duty on the death of a person (obsolete rare); (b) Greek Mythology an obol (obol n.) placed in the mouth of a corpse, with which to pay the ferryman in Hades; (c) each of two pennies placed on the eyelids of a corpse to keep them closed.

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1753 tr. King James VI. & I. in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. viii. 489/1 By these Presents do give and grant, and for us and our Successors, perpetually confirm to our beloved the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of the Church Session of Leith..in the Name and Behalf of the Poor of the Hospital of the same, present and to come, all the Lands, tenements,..Dail-silver, Death-pennies, [etc.].

1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 258 Scatter a handful of dust over my forehead, and lay the death-penny on my tongue.

1898 Hearth & Home 29 Sept. 743/1 The miner lay in bed,..his eyes marked with dull circles, as if the death-penny had already lain on them a long time.

1905 Month Nov. 463 It was like booking a passage across the dark Unseen: crossing the Styx, with Charon at the prow. And instinctively I fumbled for the death penny.

2002 E. Chadwick Winter Mantle xliii. 503 His eyelids suddenly felt as if someone had weighed them down with death pennies.

单词	death penny
释义	> as lemmas death penny death penny n. †(a) Scottish (apparently) a penny paid as duty on the death of a person (obsolete rare); (b) Greek Mythology an obol (obol n.) placed in the mouth of a corpse, with which to pay the ferryman in Hades; (c) each of two pennies placed on the eyelids of a corpse to keep them closed. ΚΠ 1753 tr. King James VI. & I. in W. Maitland Hist. Edinb. viii. 489/1 By these Presents do give and grant, and for us and our Successors, perpetually confirm to our beloved the Minister, Elders, and Deacons of the Church Session of Leith..in the Name and Behalf of the Poor of the Hospital of the same, present and to come, all the Lands, tenements,..Dail-silver, Death-pennies, [etc.]. 1863 G. J. Whyte-Melville Gladiators III. 258 Scatter a handful of dust over my forehead, and lay the death-penny on my tongue. 1898 Hearth & Home 29 Sept. 743/1 The miner lay in bed,..his eyes marked with dull circles, as if the death-penny had already lain on them a long time. 1905 Month Nov. 463 It was like booking a passage across the dark Unseen: crossing the Styx, with Charon at the prow. And instinctively I fumbled for the death penny. 2002 E. Chadwick Winter Mantle xliii. 503 His eyelids suddenly felt as if someone had weighed them down with death pennies. extracted from deathn. < as lemmas
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