单词 | last words |
释义 | > as lemmaslast words (a) last words: the final utterance of a person before death. Seven Last Words: the seven utterances of Christ on the cross (also Seven Words).famous last words: see famous adj. 1c. [The tradition of the collection of the Seven Last Words dates back to at least the 12th cent.: compare post-classical Latin de septem verbis (c1156 in a work title). The sayings have also been the subject of a number of musical compositions, e.g. Die sieben Worte Jesu Christi am Kreuz (?1645) by Heinrich Schütz, and Die sieben letzten Worte unseres Erlösers am Kreuze (1787) by Joseph Haydn.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes > final words during last wordsc1426 the world > life > death > [noun] > death throes > final words during > of Christ Seven Last Wordsc1426 c1426 J. Audelay Poems (1931) 58 O Ihesu Crist hongyng on cros, Vij wordis þou saydest with myld voys Vnto þe Fader of heuen. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 432/1 He comyng to the last houre,..and profferyng the laste wordes I commend my sowle in to thyn handes deyed. 1521 R. Copland tr. St. Edmund Rich Myrrour of Chyrche f. 27 Ye shall here thynke on ye vii. wordes yt he spake on ye crosse. 1534 W. Marshall tr. Erasmus Playne & Godly Expos. Commune Crede vi. f. 141 With his laste wordes praying for them by whome he was put on the crosse. 1596 in Spalding Club Misc. I. 88 James Low..said, in his last wordis, befoir he gef wp his braitht [etc.]. 1602 C. Sutton Disce Vivere xxvii. 492 Let vs hear him..in his seauen last wordes vttered vpon the Crosse. 1692 H. Harrison (title) The Last Words of a Dying Penitent. ?1723 T. Cibber Henry VI ii. 14 To prove this true, read the last Words of Mortimer, Who dy'd in Prison in your Minor Days. 1781 H. Croft Young in S. Johnson Pref. Wks. Eng. Poets X. 84 In the third Letter is described the death-bed of the gay, young, noble,..and most wretched Altamont. His last words were—[etc.]. 1825 T. Hook Sayings & Doings 2nd Ser. III. 179 He..read over..the ‘last words’ of his adored Fanny, till the blood thrilled in his veins. 1870 tr. Bellarmino (title) The Seven Words from the Cross [L. de septem verbis a Christo in cruce prolatis]. 1874 E. King (title) Meditations on the last seven words of our Lord Jesus Christ. 1933 ‘L. G. Gibbon’ Cloud Howe i. 43 His last words were, so the story went, ‘And what might the feare's prices be to-day?’ 1955 O. Fals-Borda Peasant Society Columbian Andes xiv. 218 On Good Friday, after the traditional Sermon of the Seven Last Words, there is an elaborate procession. 2007 Daily Tel. 1 May 30/3 In November, 1916, he was killed on the Somme where..his last words were, ‘Put that bloody cigarette out.’ < as lemmas |
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