单词 | hyperborean |
释义 | hyperboreanadj.n. A. adj. 1. a. Of, pertaining to, or characterizing the extreme north of the earth, or (colloquial or humorously) of a particular country; in ethnological use, cf. B. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > direction > cardinal points > North > [adjective] > character northOE northernc1385 northenc1410 boreal1470 northernly1574 hyperboreal1596 hyperborean1605 northerly1616 boreana1644 Boread1882 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. v. 174 Gray-beard Boreas..Is pris'ned close in the Hyper-Borean Caue. ?1614 W. Drummond Sonnet: The Hyperborean Hills in Poems The Hyperborean Hills. 1633 C. Butler Eng. Gram. To Rdr. sig. *2v In the other Northern Isles, as Groenland, Freesland, Iseland, &c. even to the Hyperborean or frozen Sea. 1740 J. Warton Virg. Georg. iv. 618 The Hyperborean ice he wander'd o'er. 1860 M. F. Maury Physical Geogr. Sea (ed. 8) x. §488 This water then may go off as an under current freighted with heat to temper some hyperborean region. 1875 F. Parkman in N. Amer. Rev. CXX. 37 The first, or Hyperborean, group comprises the tribes of Alaska and a part of British America. 1885 Manch. Examiner 12 Jan. 6/1 We are held to dwell..in a hyperborean region, though we are only two hundred miles from London. b. Of or pertaining to the fabled Hyperboreans. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [adjective] > of fabulous or mythical race of humans hyperborean1613 Fomorian1793 sciapodous1798 sasquatch1966 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 398 The Hyperborean [nation], which..dwell in an Iland in the Ocean neere unto the Pole. 1806 R. Fellowes tr. J. Milton Second Def. in C. Symmons Prose Wks. John Milton VI. 418 Some hyperborean and fabled hero, decorated with all the shewy varnish of imposture. 2. (nonce-use.) Surpassing that of the north wind. ΚΠ 1859 W. M. Thackeray Virginians lxxix He blew a hyperborean whistle, as if to blow his wrath away. B. n. An inhabitant of the extreme north of the earth; in plural members of an ethnological group of Arctic races. loosely and figuratively. One who lives in a northerly clime.In Greek legend the Hyperboreans were a happy people who lived in a land of perpetual sunshine and plenty beyond the north wind. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabitant > inhabitant according to environment > [noun] > inhabitant of imaginary or ideal place utopian1551 Arcadian1590 hyperborean1601 eutopian1629 Ruritanian1894 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > miscellaneous (types of) walkyrieeOE woodwosea1100 mugglingc1275 Sciapodes1568 Arimasp1579 acephali1600 hyperborean1601 Arimaspian1667 golem1732 Lorelei1878 menehune1895 the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of specific region > [noun] > northern people > person northerner1283 Septentrion1607 northerling1616 northern1774 northlander1797 hyperborean1816 the world > people > ethnicities > race > Arctic race > [noun] hyperborean1856 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 121 Certain people..not much vn~ like in their maner of life to the Hyperboreans. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 395 Next to these both in place and credit, we may reckon the Hyperboreans. 1816 M. Keating Trav. (1817) II. 138 At six in the morning the yokes of oxen were going to their work a field; and nearly three hours advantage..of active life is possessed [in France] over us Hyperboreans. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 24 Our party of American hyperboreans. Derivatives hyperˈboreanism n. an extreme northernism.Apparently an isolated use. ΚΠ 1824 T. De Quincey Goethe in London Mag. Sept. 298 ‘Hanselling’ and ‘just’ in this use of it [in ‘we must just put up with it’] are both Hyperboreanisms, and still intelligible in some provinces. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2020). < adj.n.1601 |
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