单词 | hyperbole |
释义 | hyperbolen. 1. Thesaurus » Categories » a. Rhetoric. A figure of speech consisting in exaggerated or extravagant statement, used to express strong feeling or produce a strong impression, and not intended to be understood literally. b. With a and plural, an instance of this figure. ΚΠ 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes iv. 110 b/1 By a maner of speking which is among lerned men called yperbole, for the more vehement expressyng of a mater. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 340 He must note an hyberbole or ouerreaching speach in this sentence. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. ii. 407 Three pilde Hiberboles, spruce affection: Figures pedanticall. 1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 58 Scriptural Examples of Hyperbole..Deut. 9. 4, Cities fenced up to heaven..Joh. 21. 25, The whole world could not contain the books. 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper iv. i. 46 Will you leave your Perbole's, and come then? 1680 J. Dryden Kind Keeper v. i. 54 Nay, and you are in your Perbole's again! 1727 J. Gay Fables I. xviii. 60 Hyperboles, though ne'er so great, Will still come short of self-conceit. 1808 L. Murray Eng. Gram. Illustr. I. App. ii. iv. 487 Hyperboles are of two kinds; either such as are employed in description, or such as are suggested by the warmth of passion. 1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella I. i. xi. 381 An Arabic interpreter..expatiated, in florid hyperbole, on the magnanimity and princely qualities of the Spanish king. c. gen. Excess, extravagance. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > quantity > sufficient quantity, amount, or degree > excessive amount or degree > [noun] unhovea1300 passingc1350 distemperancec1374 excess1393 unmeasurea1400 surfeita1500 excessivenessa1513 ametry?1541 immoderation?1541 distemperature1572 exceedingnessa1586 grossness1585 unreasonableness1606 inordinacya1617 excrescency1638 immoderancy1646 fair share1650 overbalance1651 hyperbole1652 overheight1664 immoderacya1682 faggald1824 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > exaggeration, hyperbole > [noun] > excessiveness, extravagance extremitya1533 exorbitancya1638 exorbitance1646 transvolation1649 hyperbole1652 extremism1865 1652 L. S. Natures Dowrie xviii. 45 [He] spared him out of an Hyperbole of clemency. 1678 J. Norris Coll. Misc. (1699) 6 Under the great Hyperbole of Pain He mourns. 1874 H. R. Reynolds John the Baptist iii. §2. 175 They agreed with the Pharisees in their extraordinary regard for the Sabbath, even pressing their rigour to an hyperbole. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > number > geometry > curve > [noun] > conic section > hyperbola hyperbole1579 hyperbola1668 hyperbolic space1704 hyperboloid1728 1579 L. Digges & T. Digges Stratioticos 188 Whether..the sayde Curue Arke, be not an Hyperbole. 1717 J. Douglass in Philos. Trans. 1714–16 (Royal Soc.) 29 535 Within it hath an Angle or sharp Ridge which runs all along the Middle, at the Top of the Hyperbole [of its beak]. Derivatives hyˈperbole v. (intransitive) to use hyperbole, to exaggerate.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1698 Locke Let. to E. Masham 29 Apr. in H. R. F. Bourne Life J. Locke (1876) II. xv. 461 Your poor solitary verger who suffers here under the deep winter of frost and snow: I do not hyperbole in the case. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1529 |
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