单词 | golgotha |
释义 | golgothan. 1. A place of interment; a graveyard, charnel house. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > burial ground or cemetery > [noun] littenc900 charnel1377 burying-place1382 fosse?a1425 churchyard1477 golgotha1604 God's acre1605 cemetery1613 burial-place1633 dormitory1634 burying-ground1711 burial-field1743 graveyard1767 burial-ground1803 burial-yard1842 boneyard1866 Boot Hill1901 necropole1921 memorial park1927 grave-site1953 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > burial-chamber > [noun] > repository or ossuary bone houseOE charnel1430 carnarya1552 charnel house1556 ossuary1600 golgotha1604 repository?1639 conditory1706 ossuarium1765 reposit1792 skullery1818 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 135 This land [shall] be cald, The field of Golgotha and dead mens sculs. View more context for this quotation] 1604 J. Marston Malcontent iv. v. sig. G2v This earth is the only graue and golgotha wherein all thinges that liue must rotte. a1649 W. Drummond Skiamachia in Wks. (1711) 204 These have..dy'd the White Fields in Blood, turned them into a Golgotha. 1749 J. Gwynn Ess. Design Pref. 6 Westminster-abbey..was by no Means intended as a mere Golgotha for the Remains of the..Dead. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent I. i. 35 From time immemorial this old beach has been the depository of the dead, and unless the Prince prosecutes his good work for the reclamation of this golgotha [etc.]. ΘΚΠ society > education > place of education > educational buildings > [noun] > college or university buildings > lecture or disputation rooms school hallc1450 public school1582 golgotha1726 lecture-room1817 lecture-theatre1849 lecture-hall1967 1726 N. Amhurst Terræ-filius (ed. 2) I. xi. 59 Here is that famous apartment, by idle wits and buffoons nick-named Golgotha, that is, the place of sculls or heads of colleges and halls, where they meet and debate upon all extraordinary affairs. a1742 R. Lloyd Charity The Golgotha of learned fools. 1791 2nd Heroic Ep. to J. Priestley in Poet. Reg. (1808) 415 Dragg'd down to Oxford, at its stern command, Before dread Golgotha I see thee stand, Arraign'd, condemn'd. 1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 66 Golgotha, the place where the heads of Houses sit at St. Mary's in awful array. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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