单词 | life-stream |
释义 | > as lemmaslife-stream life-stream n. ΚΠ 1633 P. Fletcher Purple Island iv. xix. 42 The grosser waves of these life-streams (which here With much, yet much lesse labour is prepar'd) A doubtfull chanel doth to Pneumon bear. 1731 D. Mallet Eurydice iv. vii. 64 She dies. I tear her from my breast, tho' the life-stream Should issue with her. 1832 T. Carlyle Misc. Ess. (1847) III. 153 Their [sc. Shakespeare and Goethe's] construction begins at the heart and flows outward as the life-streams do. 1941 W. Lewis Let. 10 Aug. (1963) 295 The character..is so deeply stained with the deposits on the obscure bed of the life-stream. 2002 N. Drury Dict. Esoteric 18/2 Ascending arc , in Theosophy, a ‘lifestream’ of growing spiritual entities who pass upwards through a series of increasingly mystical planes of existence. < as lemmas |
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