单词 | diaboliad |
释义 | Diaboliadn. Now rare. A poem or other work about the Devil; a tale of the Devil's doings. Also in extended use.Frequently in titles. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1777 |
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