单词 | mazelike |
释义 | > as lemmasˈmazelike ˈmazelike adj. and adv. ΘΚΠ the world > space > shape > curvature > series of curves > [adjective] > having many or winding curves > like a maze or labyrinth forwrinked14.. mazy1579 coney-vaulted1585 labyrinthian1588 mazelike1596 labyrinth-like1601 Daedalian1607 labyrinthine1632 cuniculous1634 labyrinthed1641 labyrinthala1661 labyrinthiform1805 daedal1818 meandriform1857 mazed1920 1596 A. Copley Fig for Fortune 62 Amid these trees, these fruites, these flowerie sweetes Ran in a Maze-like wile a chrystall streame. 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. ii. ii. 494 The Maze-like Meane, that turnes and wends so faire. 1868 E. Atherstone Fall of Nineveh (ed. 2) II. xxi. 177 Dara, with hand untiring, from the harp Called breathing tones, and maze-like harmonies. a1894 W. Pater Gaston de Latour (1896) ii. 35 Its maze-like crypt, centering in the shrine of the sibylline Notre-Dame. 1904 Westm. Gaz. 15 Mar. 1/3 I looked down on to rows of clipped, regular, hornbeam hedges, with grass paths between them, maze-like. 1979 Dædalus Summer 12 More impressive..is the endemic and systematic character of public hypocrisy and its mazelike inescapability. < as lemmas |
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