单词 | memento mori |
释义 | memento morin. A warning or reminder of the inevitability of death, esp. a skull or other symbolic object. Later sometimes in weakened use: any grim, ominous, or sobering symbol. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > reminder or warning of swanc1374 memento mori1598 the mind > mental capacity > memory > reminder, putting in mind > [noun] > as injunction or warning > object > reminding of death memento mori1598 skull1826 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > representation in art > [noun] > an artistic representation > others quathriganc1175 starc1384 yoke1415 sheafc1420 arrow1548 thunder-dart1569 memento mori1598 quadriga1600 Triton1601 anchor1621 chimera1634 forest-work1647 Bacchanaliaa1680 Bacchanal1753 subject1781 harp1785 mask1790 arrowhead1808 gorgoneion1842 Amazonomachia1845 Amazonomachy1893 mythograph1893 physicomorph1895 horns of consecration1901 double image1939 motion study1977 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 iii. iii. 29 I make as good vse of it as many a man doth of a deaths head, or a memento mori . View more context for this quotation c1600 Pilgrimage ii, in Three Parnassus Plays (1949) 106 If I doe not..Ile giue my heade to anie good felowe to make a memento mori of. a1680 Earl of Rochester Let. from Artemiza in Town in Poems 25 Now scorn'd of all, forsaken, and opprest. She's a Memento mori, to the rest. 1738 G. Lillo Marina i. ii Thy face is a memento mori for thy own sex. 1798 T. Holcroft He's much to Blame iii. vii. 47 I never yet saw a mask in the character of a Memento mori. 1850 W. M. Thackeray Pendennis II. xxiii. 229 A great man must keep his heir at his feast like a living memento mori. 1877 W. Jones Finger-ring Lore 372 In the same collection is a ‘memento mori’ ring, of bronze. 1928 L. Woolf Let. 4 Oct. (1990) 237 I got on quite all right. I started well with a cheerful memento mori. 1985 Times Lit. Suppl. 17 May 544/1 The Socialist Polizeistaat is in itself the largest memento mori for its people. 2011 J. Cartwright Other People's Money (2012) xii. 121 He looks out at the green, ceaselessly motile tide and the hulk of the fishing boat, which lends a suggestion of memento mori to the view. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1598 |
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