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单词 diaboliad
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Diaboliadn.

Brit. /ˌdʌɪəˈbɒlɪad/, U.S. /ˌdaɪəˈbɑliˌæd/
Forms: also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Either (i) a borrowing from Latin, ombined with an English element. Or (ii) a borrowing from Greek, combined with an English element. Etymons: Latin diabolus , -ad suffix1; Greek διάβολος , -ad suffix1.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin diabolus or its etymon Hellenistic Greek διάβολος devil (see devil n.) + -iad comb. form.
Now rare.
A poem or other work about the Devil; a tale of the Devil's doings. Also in extended use.Frequently in titles.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > poetry > poem or piece of poetry > narrative poem > [noun] > epic poem > other types of epic poem
Argonautic1583
Heracleid1725
Christiad1750
Diaboliad1777
Byroniad1819
chanson de geste1833
roman de geste1836
bylina1886
1777 W. Combe (title) The Diaboliad, a poem.
1798 W. Tasker Series of Lett. (ed. 2) 235 My chef d'œuvre..The Devonshire Diaboliad, or, Satan's Tour into the West, has never yet appeared in print.
1813 S. Wesley Let. 14 Apr. (2001) 198 A pretty Diaboliad they made of Don Juan t'other Night.
1838 G. S. Faber Inq. Hist. & Theol. Anc. Vallenses & Albigenses iii. v. 339 To believe all the Manichean Diaboliads ascribed to the old Paulicians and the later Albigenses.
1913 F. E. Schelling Eng. Lyric v. 147 In the earlier Diaboliads, contemporary small satirists in forgotten diatribes chid lesser men than themselves.
1971 C. R. Proffer & A. Humessky tr. A. Akhmatova in Russian Lit. Triquarterly 1 29 Beyond the window smokes the Neva, Unfathomable is the night, and on and on goes The Petersburg diaboliad.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2016; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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