单词 | gehenna |
释义 | gehennan. 1. The place of future torment; hell. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun] helleOE hellOE perditiona1382 perishingc1384 welling woea1400 hellwardc1400 Topheta1425 gehenne1481 to devilwardc1550 limbo1581 Averna1592 Hades1597 Sheol1599 other place1604 underworld1608 infernals1613 gehenna1623 lower world1639 netherworld1640 pandemonium1667 subterrenea1711 diablerie1776 inferno1834 ballyhooly1837 nether region1839 Sam Hill1839 Ballyhack1843 tunket1871 bogydom1880 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. Gehenna, Hell. 1627 G. Hakewill Apologie iv. i. 281 A valley shadowed with wood, called Gehinnon [sic] or Tophet, from whence is the word Gehenna vsed for hell. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 405 [Moloch] made his Grove The pleasant Vally of Hinnom, Tophet thence And black Gehenna call'd, the Type of Hell. View more context for this quotation] 1854 J. L. Motley Let. 8 May in Corr. (1889) I. vi. 166 The groans which occasionally ascended seemed as from a Gehenna. 1882 F. W. Farrar Early Days Christianity II. 63 Making their proselytes ten-times-worse children of Gehenna than themselves. 1883 Punch 8 Sept. 119/1 A Gehenna of flaring gas-flames and a howling warder stop the way again. 2. transferred. A place of torture; a prison. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun] quarternOE prisona1200 jailc1275 lodgec1290 galleya1300 chartrea1325 ward1338 keepingc1384 prison-house1419 lying-house1423 javel1483 tollbooth1488 kidcotec1515 clinkc1530 warding-place1571 the hangman's budget1589 Newgate1592 gehenna1594 Lob's pound1597 caperdewsie1599 footman's inn1604 cappadochio1607 pena1640 marshalsea1652 log-house1662 bastille1663 naskin1673 state prison1684 tronk1693 stone-doublet1694 iron or stone doublet1698 college1699 nask1699 quod1699 shop1699 black hole1707 start1735 coop1785 blockhouse1796 stone jug1796 calaboose1797 factory1806 bull-pen1809 steel1811 jigger1812 jug1815 kitty1825 rock pile1830 bughouse1842 zindan1844 model1845 black house1846 tench1850 mill1851 stir1851 hoppet1855 booby hatch1859 caboose1865 cooler1872 skookum house1873 chokey1874 gib1877 nick1882 choker1884 logs1888 booby house1894 big house1905 hoosegow1911 can1912 detention camp1916 pokey1919 slammer1952 joint1953 slam1960 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K4 I [sc. a Spaniard] winning haue the crownes, he loosing is carried to the galleys. This is our custome, which a hundred times and more hath paid mee custome of crownes, when the poore fellowes haue gone to Gehenna, [and] had course bread and whipping chere all their life after. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 12 They had neither bin hal'd into your Gehenna at Lambeth, nor strappado'd with an Oath Ex Officio by your bow men of the Arches. DerivativesΚΠ 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered v. 18 As by his genealogicall glosses he hath abused βιβλὸν γενέσεως, so by his gehennicall cursings he might set on fire τροχὸν γενέσεως [cf. Jam. iii. 6]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1898; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1594 |
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