| 单词 | life's ghost |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslife's ghost a. ghost of life (also life's ghost): the animating or vital principle in humans and animals; that which gives life to the body, in contrast to its purely material being; the life force, the breath of life; = sense A. 1. rare.With use in quot. 2001 cf. to give up the ghost.Apparently unattested between the 15th and late 19th centuries. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Old Eng. Hexateuch: Gen. (Claud.) vi. 17 Efne ic gebringe flodes wæteru ofer eorðan, ðæt ic ofslea eall flæsc on ðam ðe is lifes gast under heofonum. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 325 Alle þat glydez and gotz and gost of lyf habbez. 1886 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 24 Jan. 8/1 He took this dose [of opium] every day for some time, and the ghost of life didn't desert him, or the angel of death gather him during this period. 1985 T. Harrison Myst. Plays 16 Take now here the ghost of life, And receive both your souls of me. 2001 Relig. & Amer. Culture 11 135 Death in itself..was perfectly avoidable, since all that was required was refusal to give up the ‘Ghost of Life’. < as lemmas |
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