单词 | human-bestial |
释义 | > as lemmashuman-bestial (b) Forming adjectives designating a combination of human and other qualities, as human-angelic, human-bestial, human-divine, etc. Cf. divine-human n. and adj. at divine adj. and n.1 Compounds 1. ΚΠ 1688 D. Leeds tr. J. Böhme Temple of Wisdom 110 The human angelical Desire standeth in the centre of the eternal Nature. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones III. ix. ii. 317 The human-angelic Species. View more context for this quotation 1794 W. Peckitt Wonderful Love God to Men Contents p. iv Of the immortality, election, ordaination in Common, dignity, and duty, of Man in his human-angelic state on Earth. 1839 M. Sibly in New-church Preacher xxviii. 282 When our resurrection shall be accomplished, we may at once enter with our Lord into the marriage chamber of heaven, there to solace our happy spirits in human angelic delights. 1863 Dublin Rev. n.s. 1 518 Dogmatic theology is a human science, or, more correctly speaking, a human-divine science, constructed on the data furnished in the dogma or truths revealed by God. 1915 Mind 24 47 It is on this human-divine nature of man that the Vedantic Ethic is based. 1983 Human Rights Q. 5 147 When I read his unfolding definition of terror..I could only think of a human demonic power and not a natural, albeit sublime, one. 2001 M. L. Bastian in H. L. Moore & T. Sanders Magical Interpr., Material Realities iv. 73 Urban spaces at night were most often the sites for hybrid, human-bestial behaviour. < as lemmas |
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