单词 | holy land |
释义 | Holy Landn. 1. Western Palestine, or, more particularly, Judæa: so called as being the scene of the life and death of Jesus Christ, and (with reference to the Crusades) as containing the Holy Sepulchre; sometimes, in later use, as being the scene of the development of the Jewish and Christian religions. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] > Middle East > Holy Land Holy Land1297 the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Near East, Middle East, and Asia Minor > [noun] > Middle East > Israel land of behesta1200 Holy Land1297 land of promise (promission, repromission, behest)c1300 Jewryc1384 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. (1724) 392 Of so muche folc nyme þe croys, ne to þe holy londe go, Me ne sey no tyme byuore, ne suþþe naþemo. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 22 We shul preyen..for ye holy londe and ye holy crosse, yat godd..bryng it oute of hethen power. c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (Roxb.) Pref. 1 Þe land of repromission, þat men calles þe Haly Land. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. vi. 49 Ile make a voiage to the holly lande . View more context for this quotation 1686 J. S. Hist. Monastical Convent. 98 To restore the Possessions of the Christians in the Holy Land. 1758 (title) Travels through Egypt, Turkey, Syria, and the Holy Land; containing..A Description..4. Of the Holy Land, particularly of Jerusalem and the Holy Places. 1803 H. K. White Gondoline in Clifton Grove 40 And he was gone to the Holy Land To fight the Saracen. 2. slang. The parish of St. Giles's, London. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > named cities or towns > [noun] > in Britain > London > parts of vintrya1456 steelyard1474 tower hillc1480 city1556 Bow-bell1600 row1607 gate1723 east end1742 Mayfair1754 garden1763 warren1769 west?1789 the Borough1797 west end1807 Holy Land1821 Belgravia1848 Tyburnia1848 Mesopotamia1850 South Kensington1862 Dockland1904 South Ken1933 Fitzrovia1958 square mile1966 1821 The Fancy I. 250 (Farmer) The Holy-land, as St. Giles's has been termed, in compliment to the superior purity of its Irish population. 1891 Licensed Vict. Gaz. 3 Apr. 215/1 (Farmer) Whether the Irishmen of the Holy Land or the Hebrew scum of Petticoat Lane. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2018). < n.1297 |
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