| 单词 | egyptian darkness |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEgyptian darkness b. figurative. In Biblical allusions, as Egyptian bondage: bondage like that of the Israelites in Egypt; Egyptian darkness: intense darkness (see Exodus x. 22); also, †Egyptian days: the two days in each month which were believed to be unlucky. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [noun] > unlucky day(s) Egyptian days1398 the world > action or operation > adversity > [noun] > time of > day or days dismalc1300 Egyptian days1398 cross-days1555 dog day1555 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (1495) ix. xxi. 358 For there ben xxiiij Egypcyans dayes it folowyth that god sente mo wreches vpon the Egypcyens than ten. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 93 A waytiþ not þeis Egipcian daies, (þat we call dysmal). 1641 R. Greville Disc. Nature Episcopacie ii. iv. 76 A Glympse that might Enlighten them in the midst of Egyptian darknesse. 1659 J. Milton Let. Rupture Commonw. in Wks. (1698) II. 779 A part of the Nation were desperately conspir'd to call back again thir Egytian Bondage. 1855 J. S. C. Abbott Hist. Napoleon II. viii. 133 It was a night of Egyptian darkness. < as lemmas |
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