| 单词 | dreams go by contraries |
| 释义 | > as lemmasdreams go by contraries P1. Proverb. dreams go by contraries and variants: a dream foreshadows the opposite of what has been dreamed. ΚΠ c1460 (?c1400) Tale of Beryn Prol. l. 108 Comynly of these swevenys þe contrary men shul fynde. 1566 W. Adlington tr. Apuleius .XI. Bks. Golden Asse iv. xxi. f. 43 The visions of the night doo often chaunce contrary [L. tunc etiam nocturnae visiones contrarios eventus nonnumquam pronuntiant].] 1575 P. Beverley Hist. Ariodanto & Ieneura (new ed.) sig. C.i But why should I thus trust in dreames that fansies be of mynde... At least a dreame is contrary. 1584 R. Scot Discouerie Witchcraft x. vi. 183 Dreames prooue contrarie. 1673 W. Wycherley Gentleman Dancing-master iv. i Ne'er fear it: dreams go by the contraries. 1762 Guardian 13 July 87 I overheard an unlucky old woman telling her neighbour, that dreams always went by contraries. 1832 London Lit. Gaz. 30 June 404/1 As dreams go by contraries, so Conaghty's perverse vision of matrimonial happiness induced him to select a sposa very excellent internally. 1969 G. Bateson in T. A. Sebeok & A. Ramsay Approaches to Animal Communication 24 Do dreams go by opposites? Is the moral the opposite of what the dream seems to say? 2000 M. Mir in I. J. Boullata Literary Struct. Relig. Meaning Qur’ān viii. 179 And perhaps on occasion Joseph has wondered about the dream he saw in Canaan. ls it true that dreams go by contraries? < as lemmas |
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