单词 | decuman |
释义 | decumanadj. 1. Very large, immense: usually of waves.(As to the popular belief that the tenth or decuman wave, fluctus decumanus, is greater and more dangerous than any other: see Sir Thos. Browne Pseud. Epidemica vii. xvii. 2, De Quincey Pagan Oracles in Wks. (1862) VII. 183.) ΘΚΠ the world > space > extension in space > measurable spatial extent > largeness > [adjective] > huge unmeeteOE unmeetlyOE hugea1275 hideousc1330 infinitec1385 unmeasureda1398 unmeasurablec1405 hugyc1420 immeasurable1440 ingentc1450 unmeetlyc1450 giant1480 immense1490 monstrous?a1513 unmeasurely1513 hugeousa1529 unportable1537 enormous1544 enormc1560 giantly1561 immensible1579 rouncival1582 dismeasured1584 vast1585 immeasured1590 gargantuan1596 omnipotent1596 colossian1601 immane1601 prodigious1601 Polyphemian1602 Titanian1603 titanical1603 gigantical1604 immensive1604 gigantine1605 colossic1607 gigantean1611 Gogmagotical1612 gigantal?1614 Babylonian1617 leviathan1625 titanic1628 elephantine1631 gigantive1638 colossean1644 decumanal1652 immensurate1654 gigant1658 decuman1659 colossal1664 abnormous1710 Brobdingnagian1728 Brobdingnag1731 Pantagruelian1737 heroic1785 Patagonian1786 seven-league1787 Titan1793 gigantic1797 seven-leagued1799 mammoth1801 dimensionless1813 tremendous1813 gigantesque1821 monster1837 titanesque1838 monstre1840 giantlike1847 leviathanic1848 pythonic1851 Babylonic1853 supercolossal1871 giantesque1909 behemothian1910 supergiant1919 ginormous1942 big-ass1945 Ozymandian1961 fuck-off1962 mega1968 humongous1970 monstro1970 big-assed1972 big-arsed1996 the world > the earth > water > flow or flowing > wave > types of waves > [adjective] > unusually large decuman1659 1659 J. Gauden Ἱερα Δακρυα 30 To be overwhelmed and quite sunk by such decumane billowes as those small vessels have no proportion to resist. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. xxiii. 97 That..Decumane Wave that took us fore and aft. 1838 Fraser's Mag. 17 122 The tenth, or decuman, is the last of the series of waves, and the most sweeping in its operation. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. i. 5 Confidence, that even amid the decuman billows of modern scepticism it [the Church] shall remain immovable. 2. Roman History. Belonging to the tenth cohort: applied to the chief entrance to a camp, or that farthest from the enemy (porta decumana). ΚΠ 1852 T. Wright Celt, Roman, & Saxon (1861) 148 The decuman gate. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1894; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1659 |
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