单词 | guaca |
释义 | guacan. A general term for objects connected with the religious worship of the Incas, as idols, temples, grave-mounds, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > property > [noun] temporalty1396 spiritualtyc1400 spirituality1468 temporalitiesc1475 temporala1525 sanctimoniesa1547 Guardian of the Spiritualties (also Spiritualty)1562 temporaries1596 guaca1604 sanctities1815 sacra1819 spiritual1827 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. ii. 332 In this first kind of idolatry [worship of natural objects] they have exceeded in Peru, and they properly cal it Guaca. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. v. 340 They shewd me..a little hill or great mount of sand, which was the chiefe Idoll or Guaca of the Antients. 1604 E. Grimeston tr. J. de Acosta Nat. & Morall Hist. Indies v. xii. 359 In every Province of Peru, there was one principall Guaca, or house of adoration. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 878 This Guaca (so they called their Idols and Temples) was Generall to all the Indians of Peru. 1748 tr. P. Lozano True Relation Earthquake Lima Pref. 8 In their Guaca's (the Indian Word for Sepulchre)..they always buried great quantities of Gold. 1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. II. vii. 321 The Guacas, or mounds of earth, with which they covered the bodies of the dead. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1604 |
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