| 单词 | as proud as lucifer |
| 释义 | > as lemmasas proud as Lucifer a. The rebel archangel whose fall from heaven was supposed to be referred to in Isaiah xiv. 12; Satan, the Devil. Now rare in serious use; current chiefly in the phrase as proud as Lucifer.The Scripture passage (Vulgate ‘Quomodo cecidisti de cælo, Lucifer, qui mane oriebaris?’ King James Bible ‘How art thou fallen from heauen, O Lucifer, sonne of the morning?’) is part of a ‘parable against the king of Babylon’ (Isaiah xiv. 4); but the mention of a fall from heaven led Christian interpreters to suppose that ‘king of Babylon’ was to be interpreted spiritually, as a designation of the chief of ‘the angels who kept not their first estate’. Hence the general patristic view that Lucifer was the name of Satan before his fall. The Latin word was adopted in all the English versions down to 1611; the Revised version has daystar. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > a devil > the Devil or Satan > [noun] > as Lucifer LuciferOE the mind > emotion > pride > [adjective] > extremely or excessively proud overproudOE mad-proudc1450 Luciferine1543 Luciferousc1554 Luciferian?1570 top-proud1623 fastuose1674 as pleased (also proud, etc.) as Punch1796 as proud as Lucifer1839 OE Christ & Satan 366 Wæs þæt encgelcyn ær genemned, Lucifer haten, leohtberende. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 30 Þese nouelries maad of ydiotis & synful wrecchis of lucifers pride. a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 442 And for þat he was fair and bright lucifer to nam he hight. c1450 Mirour Saluacioun 4377 With feendes and lucifere..in helle. 1567 Compend. Bk. Godly Songs (1897) 175 Proude Lucifer, the greit maister of hell. 1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII iii. ii. 372 And when he falles, he falles like Lucifer, Neuer to hope againe. View more context for this quotation 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes I. iv. 571 His Pride is such, as may teach Lucifer. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost vii. 131 Lucifer..So call him, brighter once amidst the Host Of Angels, then that Starr the Starrs among. View more context for this quotation 1772 J. W. Fletcher Third Check Antinom. 94 A fall into pride may drive me nearer Lucifer. 1814 W. Scott Waverley III. x. 128 A second Lucifer of ambition and wrath. View more context for this quotation 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 70 Men say—as proud as Lucifer—Pray who would not be proud with such a train? < as lemmas |
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