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单词 earth-power
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earth-power
b. With the sense ‘of or relating to the world or earth’, as earth-child, earth-lord, earth-magic, earth-noise, earth-pole, earth-power, earth-surface, etc.
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eOE Metres of Boethius xx. 194 Men habbæð geond middangeard eorðgesceafta ealla oferþungen.
OE Exodus 392 Se snottra sunu Dauides.., eorðcyninga se wisesta on woruldrice.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 47 (MED) Heo on eorðe ȝeueð reste to alle eorðe þrelles, wepmen and wifmen, of heore þrel weorkes.
c1300 (?a1200) Laȝamon Brut (Otho) l. 25875 Ȝef þou hart erþ cniht [Calig. eorðlic cniht].
?a1475 Ludus Coventriae 146 And pes to man on erthe grownde.
1629 J. Gaule Practique Theories Christs Predict. 42 The Earth-Lords [sc. Adam's] honour now layd in the dust.
1702 B. Morrice Muse's Treat 144 Without Earth surface, obvious to Heaven's eyes, A boisterous part of my Dominions lies.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 30 From the earth-poles to the Line.
1847 R. W. Emerson Poems 39 Earth-proud, proud of the earth which is not theirs.
1850 Browning Poems II. 435 I can hear it 'Twixt my spirit And the earth~noise, intervene.
1887 Spectator 7 May 626/1 The earth-powers which dwell in the billows, the rain, the frost, and the air.
1901 ‘L. Malet’ Hist. Richard Calmady vi. x. 603 All this, the unity and secrecy of the place..circling them about with something of earth-magic.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 2 June 6/2 Earth-child, struggle no more.
1972 J. Fire & R. Erdoes Lame Deer, Seeker of Visions x. 181 The steam [of the sweat house] stops at the skin, but that earth-power penetrates your body and mind.
1990 D. Schimel in J. Leggett Global Warming iii. 78 Complex feedbacks in the Earth System can produce unexpected and potent responses.
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