英语词汇“artificial fire”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

(a) A combustible or explosive substance used for military purposes, typically one that ignites readily, burns fiercely, and is difficult to extinguish; a projectile or other device loaded with such a substance. Usually with modifying word, esp. in artificial fire (cf. feu d'artifice n.). Now chiefly historical.Recorded earliest in Greekish fire n. at Greekish adj. 4. See also wildfire n. 3.

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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > fire as weapon

fire?c1225

Greek fire?c1225

Greekish fire?c1225

wildfire1297

firework1528

liquid firea1616

dragoon1626

fire chemise1728

Grecian fire1774

chemise-

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 297 Me warpeð grickisch fur up on his famen & swa me ouercumeð ham.

c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) l. 58 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 118 Þo king richard..Kast wilde fire in to þe sky & fer gregeys in to þe see.

c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 1582 That fire which is y-callyd greke Ys nat so perilouse nor so rage [sc. as the fire of love].

1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. lxxiv. sig. L.viii^v It shalbe very profitable in warres on the sea, to haue an artificiall fyer, whych wyth water canne not be queanched.

1578 M. Jennings tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande xix. f. 90^v The greate troupe of Galleis (whereof thei ouerthrewe and burned many with Fires artificiall, and other Instrumentes of Warre).

1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 51 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Artificial Fires, which are made use of to frighten these Creatures [sc. war elephants].

1864 Eclectic Mag. Mar. 336/2 Captain Norton..invented a small shell for an ordinary rifle, which would carry sufficient liquid fire to do immense mischief.

1960 J. R. Partington (title) The history of Greek fire and gunpowder.

1999 S. V. Nicassio Tosca's Rome vii. 179 The Roman tradition of ‘artificial fire’ was still strong in 1800, as it is now.

单词	artificial fire
释义	> as lemmas artificial fire artificial fire n. (see fire n. 10a(a)). extracted from artificialadj.n. artificial fire (a) A combustible or explosive substance used for military purposes, typically one that ignites readily, burns fiercely, and is difficult to extinguish; a projectile or other device loaded with such a substance. Usually with modifying word, esp. in artificial fire (cf. feu d'artifice n.). Now chiefly historical.Recorded earliest in Greekish fire n. at Greekish adj. 4. See also wildfire n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > fire, radiation, or chemical weapons > [noun] > fire as weapon fire?c1225 Greek fire?c1225 Greekish fire?c1225 wildfire1297 firework1528 liquid firea1616 dragoon1626 fire chemise1728 Grecian fire1774 chemise- ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 297 Me warpeð grickisch fur up on his famen & swa me ouercumeð ham. c1330 (?a1300) Richard Coer de Lyon (Auch.) l. 58 in Englische Studien (1885) 8 118 Þo king richard..Kast wilde fire in to þe sky & fer gregeys in to þe see. c1450 (?c1408) J. Lydgate Reson & Sensuallyte (1901) l. 1582 That fire which is y-callyd greke Ys nat so perilouse nor so rage [sc. as the fire of love]. 1544 P. Betham tr. J. di Porcia Preceptes Warre ii. lxxiv. sig. L.viii^v It shalbe very profitable in warres on the sea, to haue an artificiall fyer, whych wyth water canne not be queanched. 1578 M. Jennings tr. E. de Maisonneufve Gerileon of Englande xix. f. 90^v The greate troupe of Galleis (whereof thei ouerthrewe and burned many with Fires artificiall, and other Instrumentes of Warre). 1662 J. Davies tr. A. Olearius Voy. & Trav. J. Albert de Mandelslo 51 in Voy. & Trav. Ambassadors The Artificial Fires, which are made use of to frighten these Creatures [sc. war elephants]. 1864 Eclectic Mag. Mar. 336/2 Captain Norton..invented a small shell for an ordinary rifle, which would carry sufficient liquid fire to do immense mischief. 1960 J. R. Partington (title) The history of Greek fire and gunpowder. 1999 S. V. Nicassio Tosca's Rome vii. 179 The Roman tradition of ‘artificial fire’ was still strong in 1800, as it is now. extracted from firen.int. < as lemmas
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