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单词 eclipse
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eclipsen.

/ɪˈklɪps/
Forms: Middle English esclepis, ( enclips), Middle English–1600s eclips, Middle English–1500s eclypse, (Middle English ecleps, eclypce, 1500s eclip(s)is, 1600s eeclipse), Middle English– eclipse.
Etymology: < Old French eclipse, esclipse, < Latin eclīpsis, Greek ἔκλειψις, noun of action < ἐκλείπειν to be eclipsed, literally to forsake its accustomed place, fail to appear.
1.
a. Astronomy. An interception or obscuration of the light of the sun, moon, or other luminous body, by the intervention of some other body, either between it and the eye, or between the luminous body and that illuminated by it; as of the moon, by passing through the earth's shadow; of the sun, by the moon coming between it and the observer; or of a satellite, by entering the shadow of its primary. Also in phrase, in eclipse. See also annular eclipse, total eclipse. Cf. occultation n.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > [noun] > state of being visible > eclipse
eclipsec1374
clipse1377
obscurationa1550
defect1571
superation1585
travail1593
occultation1601
deliquium1648
immersion1690
incidence1728
c1374 G. Chaucer tr. Boethius De Consol. Philos. (1868) 133 Whan þe moone is in the eclips.
1393 W. Langland Piers Plowman C. xxi. 140 Þis eclipse . þat ouer-closeþ now þe sonne.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Gött.) l. 16814 Oft siths haue we sene..esclepis [Vesp. clipes, Trin. Cambr. clippis; c1460 Laud clyppes] of sun and mone.
a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. ccxlvi. f. clxviiv In ye yere of our Lord .xii.c.xxii...apered a great Eclypce of the sone.
c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 43 In the tyme of the eclipis the eird is betuix the mune and the soune.
1608 W. Shakespeare King Lear ii. 103 These late eclipses in the Sunne and Moone portend no good to vs. View more context for this quotation
1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 23 in Justa Edouardo King That fatall..bark, Built in th' eclipse.
1751 J. Harris Hermes i. ii. 9 Often had Mankind seen the Sun in Eclipse.
1868 W. Lockyer & J. N. Lockyer tr. A. Guillemin Heavens (ed. 3) 258 An eclipse of Titan.
1871 F. T. Palgrave Lyrical Poems 33 The Sun cloak'd himself in wan eclipse.
b. transferred. Absence, cessation, or deprivation of light, temporary or permanent; technical the periodical obscuration of the light from a light-house.
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the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > [noun] > making or becoming dark > cessation or failure of light
eclipse1526
deliquium1648
1526 W. Bonde Rosary sig. D A vnyuersall derkenesse and eclipse was ouer all the worlde.
1563 T. Sackville in W. Baldwin et al. Myrrour for Magistrates (new ed.) Buckingham xciii With fowle eclypse had reft my syght away.
1671 J. Milton Samson Agonistes 81 Blind among enemies..Irrecoverably dark, total Eclipse . View more context for this quotation
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 736 The eclipse That metropolitan volcanoes make.
1830 Ld. Tennyson Burial of Love His eyes in eclipse.
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 186 A Fixed Red Light, varied by flashes preceded and followed by short eclipses.
2. figurative.
a. Obscuration, obscurity; dimness; loss of brilliance or splendour.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > [noun]
obscurity1578
eclipse1598
ingloriousnessa1631
deliquium1648
shade1650
incelebrity1813
notelessness1830
obscureness1873
Palookaville?1954
1598 R. Barckley Disc. Felicitie of Man v. 547 This..eclypse of Christian maners, doth presage the destruction of the world to be at hand.
1642 T. Fuller Holy State ii. xxi. 140 God oftentimes leaves the brightest men in an eclipse.
1649 A. Ascham Bounds Publique Obed. 19 How knowes he..that the..power is..in an Ecclipse?
1682 T. Ken Serm. at Funeral of Lady Mainard 3 Goodness has an inseparable splendour, which can never suffer, a total ecclipse.
1878 R. Browning La Saisiaz 31 When I..declare the soul's eclipse Not the soul's extinction.
b. (See quot. 1838.) Hence eclipse-dress, eclipse-feathers, eclipse-plumage.
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1838 C. Waterton Ess. Nat. Hist. 202 At the close of the breeding season, the drake undergoes a very remarkable change of plumage..and ..is..so completely clothed in the raiment of the female, that it requires a keen..eye to distinguish the one from the other... Thus we may say that once every year..the drake goes, as it were, into an eclipse.
1906 C. W. Beebe Bird 48 The invisible cloak of his brooding mate is dropped over him for a while—his colours vanish, and by a partial moult..the hues of his plumage change to an inconspicuous mottling of brown, hardly distinguishable from the female... This has been happily termed the ‘eclipse’ plumage.
1913 Brit. Birds VII. 2 The short eclipse-feathers..differ so little in general tint from the feathers of the winter- and breeding-plumage..that it is difficult to see what advantage the bird derives from the change.
1913 Brit. Birds VII. 74 The second eclipse is for the most part similar in colouring to the first eclipse,..but these second eclipse Eiders can always be distinguished..from the first eclipse..birds.
1914 Bull. Brit. Ornith. Club 33 67 The pigment for the coloration of the eclipse-dress was beginning to form.
1930 F. B. B. Kirkman & F. C. R. Jourdain Brit. Birds 159 Gadwall..In eclipse much like duck.
1958 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VII. 1 The male [sc. mallard] in eclipse resembles the female closely.
1958 D. A. Bannerman Birds Brit. Isles VII. 31 The adult drake [of the teal] begins to assume eclipse plumage in June..by August the eclipse is complete.
3. A fraudulent device in dice-playing; (see quot. 1711). Obsolete.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > dice-playing > [noun] > cheating
cogc1555
coggingc1555
slura1643
knapa1658
topping1663
petard1664
prick-penny1664
knapping1671
palming1671
gammoning1700
top1709
eclipse1711
peep1711
waxing1726
sightingc1752
1711 J. Puckle Club 31 Gamesters have the Top, Peep, Eclipse [note, securing with the little Finger, a Die on the Out-side of the Box], Thumbing, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

eclipsev.

/ɪˈklɪps/
Forms: see prec. Middle English past participle eclippid.
Etymology: < eclipse n. Compare French éclipser, late Latin eclipsare.
1.
a. intransitive. To suffer eclipse; to be eclipsed. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > [verb (intransitive)] > eclipse
eclipse1393
dark1485
clipc1500
immerge1704
1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 153 The sonne and mone eclipsen both.
a1593 T. Watson Poems (Arb.) 206 Thou neuer doest eclips..thy glorie still doth waxe.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 666 The Night-Hag..comes..to dance With Lapland Witches, while the labouring Moon Eclipses at thir charms. View more context for this quotation
b. figurative. Obsolete.
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the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > be or become obscure [verb (intransitive)]
eclipsec1430
to be in the shade1806
to crawl (back) into the woodwork1964
c1430 J. Lydgate tr. Bochas Fall of Princes i. ii. 5 a God..can..maken princes eclipsen in theyr glory.
1590 R. Greene Neuer too Late i. 36 Starrie eyes whereat my sight, Did eclipse with much delight.
2.
a. transitive. Of one of the heavenly bodies: To cause an obscuration of some other heavenly body, by passing between it and the spectator, or between it and the source from which it derives its light.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the universe > heavenly body > [verb (transitive)] > eclipse
clipse1398
eclipsec1485
clipc1500
enclipse1606
occult1765
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 356 The son had lost his sight; Eclippid was hee.
1619 M. Drayton Legend Robert Dvke of Normandy in Poems (new ed.) 335 The blessed Sunne..Eclips'd to me, eternally appeares.
1715 tr. D. Gregory Elements Astron. I. i. §28. 34 The duration of some Eclipses is..so long..as to let the Moon go the length of three of its Diameters in the Shadow totally Eclipsed.
1832 Nat. Philos. (Libr. Useful Knowl.) II. Introd. Astron. p. lii When the moon eclipses the sun to us, the earth is eclipsed to the moon.
b. transferred. To intercept (light); used technically with reference to an intermittent light in a lighthouse.
ΚΠ
1858 Mercantile Marine Mag. 5 60 It is a White Revolving Light, eclipsed once a minute.
3.
a. figurative. To cast a shadow upon, throw into the shade; to obscure, deprive of lustre.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > obscurity or ingloriousness > cast into obscurity [verb (transitive)]
obscure1548
eclipse1581
disgrace1589
darken1609
overshadow1642
unperson1966
1581 R. Goade in Confer. (1584) ii. sig. H iiij b The glorie of it was..eclipsed.
1650 N. Ward Discolliminium 30 A toleration of errours eclipsing and accosting Gods Truths.
1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant v. i. 78 I confess I was a little eclips'd; but I'll chear up.
1774 J. Bryant New Syst. II. 525 The ancient name was eclipsed by a later title.
1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. III. 351 The splendour of the House of Argyle had been eclipsed.
b. To hide, screen from. Also, to extinguish (life). Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > hiding, concealing from view > hide, conceal [verb (transitive)]
heeleOE
forhelec888
i-hedec888
dernc893
hidec897
wryOE
behelec1000
behidec1000
bewryc1000
forhidec1000
overheleOE
hilla1250
fealc1325
cover1340
forcover1382
blinda1400
hulsterc1400
overclosec1400
concealc1425
shroud1426
blend1430
close1430
shadow1436
obumber?1440
mufflea1450
alaynec1450
mew?c1450
purloin1461
to keep close?1471
oversilec1478
bewrap1481
supprime1490
occulta1500
silec1500
smoor1513
shadec1530
skleir1532
oppressa1538
hudder-mudder1544
pretex1548
lap?c1550
absconce1570
to steek away1575
couch1577
recondite1578
huddle1581
mew1581
enshrine1582
enshroud1582
mask1582
veil1582
abscondc1586
smotherc1592
blot1593
sheathe1594
immask1595
secret1595
bemist1598
palliate1598
hoodwinka1600
overmaska1600
hugger1600
obscure1600
upwrap1600
undisclose1601
disguise1605
screen1611
underfold1612
huke1613
eclipsea1616
encavea1616
ensconcea1616
obscurify1622
cloud1623
inmewa1625
beclouda1631
pretext1634
covert1647
sconce1652
tapisa1660
shun1661
sneak1701
overlay1719
secrete1741
blank1764
submerge1796
slur1813
wrap1817
buttress1820
stifle1820
disidentify1845
to stick away1900
a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. v. 53 Here I take my leaue of thee..Borne to eclipse thy Life this afternoone. View more context for this quotation
1642 G. Englisham Forerunner of Rev. 3 How easily I may eclipse myself from his power to do me harm.
1653 Cloria & Narcissus 243 He was not to be ecclipsed from the eyes of the multitude.
4. To render dim by comparison; to outshine, surpass. Chiefly figurative.
ΘΚΠ
the world > action or operation > prosperity > advancement or progress > outdoing or surpassing > outdo or surpass [verb (transitive)] > put in the shade or put to shame
shamec1400
to put down1494
extinguish1551
stain1557
overshadow1581
cloud1582
defacea1592
shend1596
to lay up1601
to shine down1623
dazzle1643
umbrage1647
foila1687
efface1717
eclipse1718
shade?1748
put into the shade1796
to take the shine out of (less frequently from, U.S. off)1819
to put to shame1854
to leave (a person) standing1864
to lay over1869
blanket1884
upstage1921
the world > matter > light > darkness or absence of light > dimness or absence of brightness > make dim [verb (transitive)] > render dim by comparison
stain1557
perstringe1603
blind1633
eclipse1810
1718 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 10 Mar. (1965) I. 382 Her Earrings eclips'd all the rest.
1761 D. Hume Hist. Eng. II. xxvii. 127 The Earl of Surrey had totally eclipsed him in favour.
1810 S. Rogers Voy. Columbus ix. 40 A spark is thrown that shall eclipse the sun.
1855 D. Brewster Mem. Life I. Newton (new ed.) I. xiii. 381 A discovery which is the glory of one age is eclipsed by the extension of it in another.
1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) xxxi. 159 One must sing in a room or the nightingales would eclipse us.
5.
a. To elide or omit (sounds) in pronunciation. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > [verb (transitive)] > lengthen or shorten > omission of vowels or syllables
elide1540
eclipse1589
sinka1771
aphetize1884
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie ii. xii. 87 If he [sc. a word] goe before another word commencing with a vowell not letting him to be eclipsed, his vtterance is easie.
b. Irish Grammar (also Gaelic, etc.). To change the sound of an initial consonant according to euphonic laws. (In writing, the letter expressing the new sound is prefixed to the original initial which becomes silent.) See eclipsis n.
ΚΠ
1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 56 The English which they speake, is good..but they disgrace it..eclipsing (somewhat like the Somersetshire men) specially in pronouncing the names.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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