单词 | earth to earth |
释义 | > as lemmasearth to earth a. The material of the human body, considered as derived from the ground; the human body or its substance. Frequently in earth to earth with allusion to the Book of Common Prayer (see quot. 1549), Cf. clay n. 4a, mould n.1 2a.Though now regarded as a figurative use, this (originally) theological sense was not so considered until the modern period. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Gen. iii. 19 In the sweate of thy face shalt thou eate thy bred, tyll thou be turned agayne vnto earth [Heb. ʿal-haāḏāmah, L. in terram], whence thou art take: for earth thou art, and vnto earth shalt thou be turned agayne [Heb. ḵi-ʿāp̱̱ār 'atāh wĕʿel-ʿāpār tašōḇ, L. quia pulvis es et in pulverem reverteris]. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > [noun] lichamc888 bodyeOE earthOE lichOE bone houseOE dustc1000 fleshOE utter mana1050 bonesOE bodiȝlichc1175 bouka1225 bellyc1275 slimec1315 corpsec1325 vesselc1360 tabernaclec1374 carrion1377 corsec1386 personc1390 claya1400 carcass1406 lump of claya1425 sensuality?a1425 corpusc1440 God's imagea1450 bulka1475 natural body1526 outward man1526 quarrons1567 blood bulk1570 skinfula1592 flesh-rind1593 clod1595 anatomy1597 veil1598 microcosm1601 machine1604 outwall1608 lay part1609 machina1612 cabinet1614 automaton1644 case1655 mud wall1662 structure1671 soul case1683 incarnation1745 personality1748 personage1785 man1830 embodiment1850 flesh-stuff1855 corporeity1865 chassis1930 soma1958 OE Guthlac B 1366 Nu se eorðan dæl, banhus abrocen burgum in innan wunað wælræste, ond se wuldres dæl of licfæte in leoht godes sigorlean sohte. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) i. 181 God..cwæð þæt he wolde wyrcan mannan of eorðan. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxi. 348 Ða ða Adam agylt hæfde, ða cwæð se ælmihtiga wealdend him to, þu eart eorðe & þu gewentst to eorþan. OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) iii. 19 On swate ðines andwlitan ðu brycst ðines hlafes, oð ðæt ðu gewende to eorðan of ðære ðe ðu genumen wære, for ðan ðe ðu eart dust & to duste gewyrst. c1300 St. Francis (Laud) 444 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 66 (MED) Huy leten him ligge..on þe grounde, Þat eorþe miȝhte on eorþe deiȝe. a1425 (a1400) Prick of Conscience (Galba & Harl.) (1863) l. 427 (MED) Þan es a man noght elles to say Bot askes and pouder, erthe and clay. a1450 York Plays 15 Rise vppe, þou erthe, in bloode and bone, In shappe of man. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Buriall f. xxiiii*v Earth to earth, asshes to asshes, dust to dust. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets cxlvi. sig. I3 Poore soule the center of my sinfull earth. 1619 F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Maides Trag. v. sig. L2v This earth of mine doth tremble, and I feele A starke affrighted motion in my bloud. 1745 tr. G. Blas Henry & Blanche 58 No pious Maid to shed the pitying Tear, Give Earth to Earth, or stretch me on the Bier. 1822 P. B. Shelley Hellas 21 The indignant spirit cast its mortal garment Among the slain—dead earth upon the earth. 1866 Friends' Intelligencer 8 Sept. 429/1 When he was buried mere earth went to earth. a1963 L. MacNiece Coll. Poems (1979) 413 Confirming its uniqueness and the worth Of life, I think a death too does the same, Confirming and extending. Earth to earth. 1982 A. Green tr. M. Nahum Light of Eyes in Upright Pract. & Light of Eyes 76 He is completely humble, thinking of himself as nothing at all, considering his corporeal self to be mere ‘earth’. < as lemmas |
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