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单词 house god
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house god
house god n. a household god; (in early use spec. in plural) the Roman gods believed to protect or watch over a household, the lares and penates. [In early use translating classical Latin lār lar n. and (in plural) penātēs (see penates n.); compare Dutch huisgod (1588 as †huysgod), German Hausgott (1561), both rendering the Latin noun.]
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penatesa1522
house god1540
household god1564
lar1586
lares and penates1616
1540 J. Palsgrave tr. G. Gnapheus Comedye of Acolastus v. iv. sig. Ziv Come of, come of, what if I seeke my fathers house goddes [L. lares], (that haue his house in tuition) after boundes wise.
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 54 These Nomades..wander with their House-gods, day and night.
1742 C. Owen Ess. Nat. Hist. Serpents iii. iv. 204 The Roman satirist..calls these Images his dear little House-Gods; and then observes, that they were crown'd with Garlands of Flowers in Summer.
1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 34 Sate Like a house-god, her hands fixed on her knee.
1995 C. B. Divakaruni Arranged Marriage (1997) 209 The heavy teak panel carved with fierce-looking house gods.
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