| 单词 | leaden sceptre |
| 释义 | > as lemmasleaden sceptre b. In allegorical contexts, with allusion to qualities of the metal or to the figurative senses below, as in leaden key, leaden sceptre, attributed poetically to the powers of sleep or dullness; leaden sword, the type of an ineffectual weapon. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > inaction > disinclination to act or listlessness > [adjective] > causing leaden1579 stupefying1617 benumbing1628 bedulling1656 obstupefying1660 lethargic1718 sopient1804 torporizing1822 torporific1825 lethargizing1827 torpid1830 deadening1875 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > [noun] > a particular species of weapon > ineffectual leaden sword1579 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 396 He heweth at it with his leaden sworde. 1602 2nd Pt. Returne fr. Parnassus iv. iii. 1887 Those leaden spouts, That nought downe vent but what they do receiue. a1616 W. Shakespeare Julius Caesar (1623) iv. ii. 319 O Murd'rous slumbler! Layest thou thy Leaden Mace vpon my Boy? View more context for this quotation 1682 N. O. tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin i. 35 When Eyes and Ears Nights leaden Key composes. 1742 E. Young Complaint: Night the First 4 Night..Stretches forth Her leaden Scepter o'er a slumbering world. 1829 H. Neele Lit. Remains 33 The leaden sceptre of French taste was stretched over the tragic drama. < as lemmas |
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