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单词 hyperbole
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hyperbolen.

/hʌɪˈpəːbəliː/
Forms: Also 1500s yperbole, hiperbole; aphetic 1600s perbole.
Etymology: < Greek ὑπερβολή excess (compare hyperbola n.), exaggeration; the latter sense is first found in Isocrates and Aristotle. Compare French hyperbole (earlier yperbole).
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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.
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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 Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 340 He must note an hyberbole or ouerreaching speach in this sentence.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.
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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.
2. Geometry. = hyperbola n. Obsolete.Perhaps with e mute, as in French hyperbole.
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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.
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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.
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