单词 | diablerie |
释义 | diablerien. 1. a. An infernal or diabolical act or thing. Frequently hyperbolical. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > diabolicalness > [noun] devilrya1400 devility1588 devilship1644 devilism1647 diabolicalness1652 diablerie1653 diabolism1660 deviltry1772 demonry1805 diabolicity1861 demonishnessa1930 society > morality > moral evil > wickedness > [noun] > devilish wickedness devilrya1400 devility1588 devilship1644 devilism1647 diabolicalness1652 diablerie1653 diabolism1660 deviltry1772 demonry1805 diabolicity1861 infernalism1864 demonishnessa1930 1653 T. Urquhart tr. F. Rabelais 2nd Bk. Wks. x. 73 These records, bills of inquest, replies, rejoinders, exceptions, depositions, and other such diableries of truth-intangling Writs. 1765 J. Langhorne Corr. Theodosius & Constantia (new ed.) vii. 64 The diableries of infernal spirits are destroyed by the influence of a celestial. 1859 W. Mathews Two Homes III. xlv. 73 Fortune, bah! I have a repugnance to the term—a diablerie belonging to the ventriloquism of humbug. 1867 Temple Bar Dec. 70 There are few dresses so thoroughly successful for a true athlete as ‘flannels’. We omit to speak of the diableries of the Zingari and other Bohemians of the ‘composite orders’ of cricketers. 1906 J. B. Huber Consumption xv. iv. 456 The cruelties of its powerful men, the diableries of its nobility, its bloody and occasionless wars. 1938 Austral. Q. Mar. 93 The ready sentimentality of the mob that sniffles with sympathy at the bathos of Little Willie's death-bed, can be swayed at almost a moment's notice to bloody diableries. b. Dealings with the Devil or devils; sorcery, witchcraft. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > involving demons or black magic devilshineOE artemagea1393 art magica1393 devilry1487 goety1569 black art1572 black magic1590 diabolism1614 demonomancy1652 goetic1727 diablerie1751 demonomagy1765 demonurgy1797 1751 W. Warburton in Wks. of Alexander Pope IV. 241 His Imitator is only for removing the false terrors from the world of spirits, such as the diablerie of witchcraft and purgatory. 1809 Q. Rev. May 347 We are no defenders of ghost seeing and diablerie. 1868 ‘G. Eliot’ Spanish Gypsy i. 55 Diablerie That pales the girls and puzzles all the boys. 1906 J. Bennett Treasure of Peyre Gaillard xiii. 97 Don't, I conjure you, dabble with magic and conjuring; it is not sixty years since men were hanged for just such diablerie as this! 1970 B. Walker Sex & Supernatural 107 The sin of witchcraft lay therefore not in nude dancing, drunkenness or fornication, but in diablerie. 2009 C. Kessel Words & Music T. Waits iii. 98 Wilhelm..is drawn down the path of diablerie and corruption by a train that has the devil as its conductor. c. Rakish or mischievous character or behaviour; wild recklessness; a mischievous or reckless act. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > courage > daring > reckless daring > [noun] hardydardya1529 audaciousness1598 diablerie1751 devilry1841 devilment1843 daredevilry1859 daredeviltry1881 daredevilism1886 1751 W. Warburton Let. 18 Nov. in Lett. Late Eminent Prelate (?1793) xxxvi. 67 What would this noble Lord say of his enemies, when he draws so charming a picture of diablérie, from his friend? 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin II. xx. 47 Miss Eva..appeared to be fascinated by her wild diablerie, as a dove is sometimes charmed by a glittering serpent. 1857 Putnam's Monthly Mag. Feb. 196/2 John Parker's wife..was safe in prison..and John had no mind she should get out again to plague him with any more of her diableries. 1896 C. D. Warner in C. D. Warner et al. Libr. World's Best Lit. VII. 2938 The world was speedily full of romances of his [sc. Byron's] recklessness, his intrigues, his diablerie, and his munificence. 1921 E. M. Hull Sheik ix. 250 In spite of his temper and his diableries he was very lovable and everybody liked him. 1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves i. 17 This Alpine lid [i.e. hat]..unquestionably lent a diablerie to my appearance, and mine is an appearance that needs all the diablerie it can get. 2. A work of art or literature that has devils as its subject; a description or representation of devils; folklore or mythology concerning devils. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > evil spirit or demon > [noun] > demonology demonology1597 diabolism1608 diabology1693 diablerie1726 devilry1737 diabolology1831 demonography1852 1726 tr. J. de Courbeville in tr. B. Gracián y Morales Hero vii. 77 His Caprichios, his Diablery [Fr. diablerie] of St. Anthony, as the Vulgar call it, his Antiques, his Pilgrims, his Beggars, are all Prodigies of Art which none before him ever attained. 1765 J. Langhorne in W. Collins Poet. Wks. 153 Milton was notoriously fond of high romance, and gothic diableries. 1785 S. Felton Explan. Several Hogarth's Prints 43 The heterogeneous mixture of ornaments round the clock, as well as those strange and frightful ones on the chimney-piece, are a strong satire and ridicule on the rage for such diableries. 1823 W. Scott St. Ronan's Well I. viii. 197 The devil, in the old stories of diablerie, was always sure to start up at the elbow of any one who nursed diabolical purposes. 1882 T. Mozley Reminisc. Oriel I. x. 76 An extraordinary figure that might have stepped out of a scene of German diablerie. 1935 Burlington Mag. Nov. 220/2 The representation of the infernal powers, the so-called ‘diablerie’,..offered a wide scope for the artist's imagination. 1967 French Rev. 41 8 As the clowning priests leap about in clouds of smoking incense to dispel bad odors, it is easy to see the inspiration of the ‘diableries’ of Bosch and Brueghel. 1994 V. Mark in J. Carlisle & D. R. Schwarz Narr. & Culture 263 The tortured bodies of accused heretics depicted in medieval diableries. 3. A company of devils; the realm of devils; devils collectively. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] helleOE hellOE perditiona1382 perishingc1384 welling woea1400 hellwardc1400 Topheta1425 gehenne1481 to devilwardc1550 limbo1581 Averna1592 Hades1597 Sheol1599 other place1604 underworld1608 infernals1613 gehenna1623 lower world1639 netherworld1640 pandemonium1667 subterrenea1711 diablerie1776 inferno1834 ballyhooly1837 nether region1839 Sam Hill1839 Ballyhack1843 tunket1871 bogydom1880 1776 Monthly Rev. Feb. 89 The bookseller, the printer, and his whole diablerie ought to suffer condign punishment. 1852 H. B. Stowe Uncle Tom's Cabin (U.K. ed.) xx. 205 She might have fancied that she had got hold of some sooty gnome from the land of Diablerie. 1880 W. Leighton Shakespeare's Dream 50 Out of sin's diablery We arise, the fateful three. 1981 G. Wickham Plays & Their Makers v. 85 Bale's most brilliant, innovative device was to create an equation between the pope and Anti-Christ, Roman Catholic priests and the diablerie. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1653 |
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