英语词汇“grain of mustard seed”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. Used allusively with reference to the mustard seed described in the New Testament (Matthew 13:31) (see quot. 1535); (hence) a small thing capable of vast development. Esp. in grain of mustard seed.The mustard seed (κόκκος σινάπεως) of the New Testament, spoken of as producing a tree, is probably the seed of the black mustard ( Brassica nigra) which in Israel grows to a great height. However, some commentators have identified it with the toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica.

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the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ

seedeOE

mustard seed?1523

seed corn1586

seedness1597

sperm1639

seminal1646

germ1823

?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii^v Kedlokes..hath small coddes & groweth lyke mustarde sede.

1535 M. Coverdale Matt. xiii The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto a grane of mustarde sede..Which is the leest amonge all sedes. But whan it is growne, it is the greatest amonge herbes, and is a tre.

1597 W. Perkins (title) The graine of musterd-seed, or, The least measure of grace that is or can be, effectuall to saluation.

a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §2 Miraculous Faith..as much as a graine of Musterseed is enough to remove mountaines.

1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 270 The Multiplication of a grain of Mustard-seed.

1741 H. Fielding Shamela The Comprehensiveness of his Imagination must be truly prodigious! It has stretched out this diminutive mere Grain of Mustard seed (a poor Girl's little, etc) into a Resemblance of that Heaven, which the best of good Books has compared it to.

1869 C. Thirlwall Serm. in Rem. (1878) III. 390 When the grain of mustard seed has waxed a great tree.

1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xix. 223 This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the universal belief that Troy was drowned.

1988 W. Green Getting Things Done (BNC) 9 The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed. Ella Burrows' faith was giant size, and it was rewarded.

单词	grain of mustard seed
释义	> as lemmas grain of mustard seed b. Used allusively with reference to the mustard seed described in the New Testament (Matthew 13:31) (see quot. 1535); (hence) a small thing capable of vast development. Esp. in grain of mustard seed.The mustard seed (κόκκος σινάπεως) of the New Testament, spoken of as producing a tree, is probably the seed of the black mustard ( Brassica nigra) which in Israel grows to a great height. However, some commentators have identified it with the toothbrush tree, Salvadora persica. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > causation > source or origin > [noun] > source, seed, or germ seedeOE mustard seed?1523 seed corn1586 seedness1597 sperm1639 seminal1646 germ1823 ?1523 J. Fitzherbert Bk. Husbandry f. xii^v Kedlokes..hath small coddes & groweth lyke mustarde sede. 1535 M. Coverdale Matt. xiii The kyngdome of heauen is like vnto a grane of mustarde sede..Which is the leest amonge all sedes. But whan it is growne, it is the greatest amonge herbes, and is a tre. 1597 W. Perkins (title) The graine of musterd-seed, or, The least measure of grace that is or can be, effectuall to saluation. a1631 J. Donne Βιαθανατος (1647) iii. iv. §2 Miraculous Faith..as much as a graine of Musterseed is enough to remove mountaines. 1651 T. Hobbes Leviathan iii. xlii. 270 The Multiplication of a grain of Mustard-seed. 1741 H. Fielding Shamela The Comprehensiveness of his Imagination must be truly prodigious! It has stretched out this diminutive mere Grain of Mustard seed (a poor Girl's little, etc) into a Resemblance of that Heaven, which the best of good Books has compared it to. 1869 C. Thirlwall Serm. in Rem. (1878) III. 390 When the grain of mustard seed has waxed a great tree. 1874 T. Hardy Far from Madding Crowd II. xix. 223 This fevered hope had grown up again like a grain of mustard-seed during the quiet which followed the universal belief that Troy was drowned. 1988 W. Green Getting Things Done (BNC) 9 The gospels commend faith the size of a grain of mustard seed. Ella Burrows' faith was giant size, and it was rewarded. extracted from mustard seedn. < as lemmas
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