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单词 head of the corner
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head of the corner
head of the corner n. a cornerstone; chiefly, and now only, figurative and in figurative contexts, mainly with reference or allusion to biblical use (see quot. c1384); cf. headstone of the corner at headstone n. 1. [After post-classical Latin caput anguli (Vulgate), itself after Hellenistic Greek κεφαλὴ γωνίας (New Testament), and ultimately after Hebrew rō'š pinnāh in the psalm (118:22) alluded to by the New Testament passages.]
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OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 42 Se stan þe ða timbriendan awurpon ys geworden to þære hyrnan heafde [L. in caput anguli].]
a1325 (c1280) Southern Passion (Pepys 2344) (1927) l. 256 He is in þe heued of the corner, yleyd and in þe grounde.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke xx. 17 The stoon whom men bildinge reproueden, this is maad in to the heed of the corner [1611 King James is become the head of the corner].
1572 J. Bridges tr. R. Gwalther Hundred, Threescore & Fiftene Homelyes vppon Actes Apostles xxvii. 200 Him [sc. Jesus] hath God raised from death, and made him the head of the corner, that is, a Lord and a sauiour, and the ruler of his Churche.
1681 W. Atwood Confut. iii. 76 in Jus Anglorum If King William, the Master-builder, refus'd what this Author would make the Head of the Corner.
1730 J. Guyse Christ, Son of God (ed. 2) 55 They preached thro' Jesus the resurrection of the dead; and that he is become the head of the corner.
1811 Monthly Mag. Apr. 218/1 In the perfection of this knowledge, consists the primary business of education. It is the foundation-stone, and the ‘head of the corner’; it is alpha and omega, the first and last of our studies.
1912 J. Royce Sources Relig. Insight v. 172 For such people the postulate which religion makes the head of the corner is rather a stumbling-stone.
1988 D. D. Honoré Trevor Huddleston p. v Trevor Huddleston has been a stumbling-block to many, to others the head of the corner of a longed-for building.
2004 Africa News (Nexis) 22 Jan. The stone that was rejected by Switzerland has become, as it were, the head of the corner in Benin.
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