| 单词 | life tree |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife tree life tree n. = tree of life n. at tree n. Compounds 3b (esp. in tree of life n. (a) at Compounds 3b). ΘΚΠ the world > life > source or principle of life > [noun] > symbol of life life tree1649 1649 J. Ellistone tr. J. Böhme Epist. vii. ii. 94 A Christian..desire after the same Life-Tree of Christ [Ger. an dem Lebens-Baume Gottes in Christo]. 1726 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 3) Thya or Arbor Vita, a kind of wild Cypress-tree, the wood of which is very sweet and lasting; the Life-tree. 1821 Ld. Byron Cain i. i, in Sardanapalus 357 Wherefore pluck'd he not The life-tree? 1849 W. M. W. Call Reverberations i. 8 Again the life-tree freshlier springs. 1909 A. J. Lockhart Birds of Cross 40 Let Destiny strike the hour When thy life-tree shall break in flower. 1989 M. Gimbutas Lang. of Goddess iii. xx. 235 On a four-faced Minoan seal of black steatite, there are two life trees, a he-goat, and a column flanked by moons. 2005 Afr. Amer. Rev. (Nexis) 22 Mar. 201 This renewal image,..reverts to the Christian tree; that is, the cross, and the preparation for Easter, the resurrection that typologically presents the death tree as a life tree. < as lemmas |
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