单词 | holy fire |
释义 | holy firen. archaic. Erysipelas, St. Anthony's fire: see fire n. 14. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > eruptive diseases > [noun] > erysipelas wildfirec1000 St. Francis' fireOE burning1382 erysipelas1398 holy fire1398 rose1599 fieriness of the face1600 fiery1600 Anthony's fire1609 sacred fire1693 sideration1828 1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomew de Glanville De Proprietatibus Rerum (Bodl.) xvii. xxii Þe yuel þat hatte..Ignis saluaticus and sacer ignis the holy fuyre. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 255 The holy fire is a disease of sheepe almost incurable, because if any remedy doe but touch them, they fall mad. 1607 E. Topsell Hist. Foure-footed Beastes 614 Of the holy fire which the Sheapheards call the Pox, or the Blisters, or Saint Anthonies fire. 1813 T. Busby tr. Lucretius Nature of Things vi. 764 Observe the Holy-Fire Eat as it creeps, and through the frame its dire, Its flamy virus lead! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.1398 |
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