单词 | ascapart |
释义 | Ascapartn. 1. A legendary giant defeated by the eponymous protagonist in the story of Sir Bevis of Southampton; a person likened to this giant. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > peoples of Arabia > [noun] Ascapartc1330 Koreish1649 Rwalaa1817 Sherarata1817 Howeitat1831 Shammar1911 the world > the supernatural > supernatural being > mythical creature or object > [noun] > fabulous or mythical human > giant > specific types Ascapartc1330 Zamzummim1530 Fomor1705 Fomorian1763 frost giant1828 ice giant1832 jotun1842 frost-power1863 c1330 (?c1300) Bevis of Hampton (Auch.) 2517 And metten wiþ a geaunt Wiþ a loþeliche semlaunt..‘Me name,’ a sede, ‘is Ascopard.’ ?1560 Syr Beuys of Hampton sig. K.i Beuis with a bolde herte..assayled ascaparte. 1607 B. Barnes Divils Charter iii. v. sig. F2 What Mandragon or saluage Ascapart..Art thou that fightest with thy fathers soule. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion ii. 31 Sir Beuis..(Golia-like) great Ascupart inforc't To serue him for a slaue. a1631 J. Donne Poems (1633) 344 Being among Those Askaparts, men big enough to throw Charing Crosse for a barre. 1733 A. Pope Impertinent 16 Each Man an Ascapart [1736 Askapart], of strength to toss For Quoits, both Temple-Bar and Charing-Cross. 1811 Eclectic Rev. Sept. 786 The house must have been intended originally..for Askapart..as he says, the ‘looking glasses are suspended about eleven feet from the ground.’ 1863 W. H. Ainsworth Cardinal Pole I. v. 65 Loftier by half a head than the royal Dane was the giant Ascapart. 1910 Boston Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 22 Sept. 491/1 Paintings..representing the victory, in single combat with the giant Ascupart, of Sir Bevis, the half-legendary hero of Southampton. 1992 D. Kemp Pleasures & Treasures Brit. 125 He fought and slew the giant Ascapart who was terrorizing the surrounding countryside. ΚΠ ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 42 Arrabyenes þat men clepen Bedoynes & Ascopardes. c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 2648 Ethiopis, Indens and Ascopartes, That bene boolde and hardy to fight. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1330 |
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