ganzan.

/ˈɡanzə/

Forms: Also 1600s gansa, gansaw.

Etymology: apparently Godwin took the word from the reading of the old editions of Pliny N.H. x. xxii; see quot. 1601.

One of the birds (called elsewhere ‘wild swans’) which drew Domingo Gonsales to the moon in the romance by Bishop F. Godwin (see quot. a1633¹).

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird

pelicanOE

tiger1481

Stymphalid1560

roc1579

mamuque?1590

firebird1601

sunbird1616

ganzaa1633

cocklicrane1653

white bird1697

wakon-bird1778

simurgh1786

thunder-birda1827

huma1841

oozlum bird1858

lightning bird1870

jubjub1871

ho-ho bird1901

storm-bird1913

1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 281 The Geese there, be all white; but lesse of bodie than from other parts: and there they be called Ganzæ.]

a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 27 All my Gansa's were not of sufficient strength to carry him.

a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 41 My Ganza's.

1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. vii. 202 Others..have conjectured a possibility of being conveyed through the air by the help of fowls; to which purpose the fiction of the Ganzas, is the most pleasant and probable.

a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) i. vii. 45 Men, who, as if upon Domingo Gonsales his engine, they had been mounted by his Gansaes from the Moon to the Empyreall heaven.

1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 187 They are but idle Dreams and Fancies And savour strongly of the Ganzas.

1668 H. More Divine Dialogues 531 O that the invention of the Gansaws were once perfected, that I might make my first Visit to our Neighbours in the Moon!

1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake iii. xiv. 240 The ganza waved his cuneal way, With yellow oar, and quoif of green.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	ganza
释义	ganzan. /ˈɡanzə/ Forms: Also 1600s gansa, gansaw. Etymology: apparently Godwin took the word from the reading of the old editions of Pliny N.H. x. xxii; see quot. 1601. One of the birds (called elsewhere ‘wild swans’) which drew Domingo Gonsales to the moon in the romance by Bishop F. Godwin (see quot. a1633¹). ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > types of mythical bird pelicanOE tiger1481 Stymphalid1560 roc1579 mamuque?1590 firebird1601 sunbird1616 ganzaa1633 cocklicrane1653 white bird1697 wakon-bird1778 simurgh1786 thunder-birda1827 huma1841 oozlum bird1858 lightning bird1870 jubjub1871 ho-ho bird1901 storm-bird1913 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 281 The Geese there, be all white; but lesse of bodie than from other parts: and there they be called Ganzæ.] a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 27 All my Gansa's were not of sufficient strength to carry him. a1633 F. Godwin Man in Moone (1638) 41 My Ganza's. 1648 Bp. J. Wilkins Math. Magick ii. vii. 202 Others..have conjectured a possibility of being conveyed through the air by the help of fowls; to which purpose the fiction of the Ganzas, is the most pleasant and probable. a1656 Bp. J. Hall Invisible World (1659) i. vii. 45 Men, who, as if upon Domingo Gonsales his engine, they had been mounted by his Gansaes from the Moon to the Empyreall heaven. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 187 They are but idle Dreams and Fancies And savour strongly of the Ganzas. 1668 H. More Divine Dialogues 531 O that the invention of the Gansaws were once perfected, that I might make my first Visit to our Neighbours in the Moon! 1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake iii. xiv. 240 The ganza waved his cuneal way, With yellow oar, and quoif of green. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.a1633
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