Midasn.

Brit.

/ˈmʌɪdəs/, U.S.

/ˈmaɪdəs/

Forms: 1500s Midasses (plural), 1500s Mydas, 1500s– Midas. Also with lower-case initial.

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Midas.

Etymology: < the name of Midas (classical Latin Midās, ancient Greek Μίδας), a fabled king of Phrygia, to whom Bacchus granted that everything that he touched should turn to gold (a gift that had to be withdrawn to prevent his dying of hunger), and to whom Apollo gave ass's ears as a punishment for insensitivity to the charm of his lyre. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (məi·dæs) /ˈmaɪdæs/.

I. Compounds.

1. Midas ear n.

a. An incapacity to appreciate something (usually in plural); also in Midas-eared adj.

ΚΠ

1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 439 Ye must vnderstand that Princes haue sometyme Argus eyes, and Midas eares.

?1570 T. Howell Newe Sonets sig. Fiii ^v When she in deede, her selfe will feede, and take her priuate gaine, and make the weare kyng, Midas eare, as though she tooke the paine.

1648 Mercurius Anti-mercurius sig. A1 Mercurius Anti-Mercurius, Communicating all Humours, Conditions, Forgeries and Lyes of Mydas-eard Newsmongers.

1733 B. Booth Mem. 47 A double Infamy's thy Due, And Midas' Ears shall grace thy Head.

1832 C. Webbe Lyric Leaves 122 Sounds which near Might seem discordant to some Midas' ear, But, in the distance mingling, make sweet harmony.

1850 H. F. James Abolitionism Unveiled 3/2 Bankers, stock-jobbing and midas-eared Mammonites, self-styled Abolitionists.

1901 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 474 He is cordially hated by bankers, promoters, speculators and most men of the Midas-eared class.

1966 Shakespeare Q. 17 121 The satyr-piper is blind as is his friend with the long Midas-ears (Folly) who helps lead blind and blindfolded humanity to virtue's perishing.

b. The shell of the volute Ellobium aurismidae. Also Midas's ear.

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Auriculidae > member of genus Auricula > shell of

Midas's ear1713

1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 2 Auris Midæ..Midas Ear.

1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 209 The Midas's Ear, and others, for these Shells, though in shape and appearance they seem Buccina, yet, their mouth..strongly distinguishes them.

1835 Penny Cycl. III. 109 Auricula Midæ (Lam.), voluta auris Midæ (Linn.), the Midas's ear of collectors, is a good example of the genus.

1982 R. T. Abbott & S. P. Dance Compendium of Seashells 282 Midas ear.

2. General attributive, with allusion to King Midas's gift of turning everything he touched into gold (see etymology); also in Midas-fingered adj.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > becoming > unfailing ability to > one who

Midas1584

1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Cvii Like momish mates of Midas mood, They gape to get that doth no good.

1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. B5^v As if some taylor had bound on with points, Nero's great belly, to staru'd Midas ioynts.

a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy x, in Remains (1670) 119 What Midas wish, what dreams of Alchimy Can with these true Crown-Mines compared be?

1667 N. Billingsley Treasury Divine Rapture 203 The dunghil Wretch, troubled with Midas Itch, Becomes a beggar by becoming rich.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 507 Ten thousand casks,..Touched by the Midas finger of the State, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away.

1891 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 103 Glades yet unsear'd by hand Of Midas-finger'd Autumn, massy-green.

1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 69 The ass-hide grass grows over her ears And Midas Silence turns to gold Each little sound she never hears.

3. Midas touch n. (also the Midas touch) the ability to turn one's actions to financial advantage; the fact of having one's actions always bring financial reward, whether intentionally or not.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > becoming > unfailing ability to

Midas touch1652

1652 T. Benlowes Those Ladies, Sir in E. Benlowes Theophila Like as Midas Touch made Gold: So, thus Theophila's Touch may make Theophilus.

1657 E. Benlowes Sacred Friendship xviii Next, all the Rocks around the spatious Shore My Midas Soveraign Touch should turn to Ore.

1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London i. xxxv. 102 Goddess!.. Whose Midas touch our gold supplies.

1898 Cosmopolitan Jan. 248/2 From the rude tuition of its winds and waves he gained a knowledge which..he turned in later years with true Midas-touch into his vast treasures of gold.

1960 Times 18 July 3/4 Picasso, with his Midas touch, has at first try made the lino-cut a more dignified medium.

1997 Gallop! Jan. 13/2 But his Midas touch seemed to have deserted him as he was backing losers all day.

II. Simple uses.

4. allusively. †(a) A person so insensible as to be incapable of appreciating something. Obsolete. (b) A person whose actions always bring financial reward, whether intentionally or not.

ΚΠ

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxxi^v (note) Midas, the Poetes faine to haue longe eares.

1579–80 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 98 Eied like an Argus, earde like a Midas.]

1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. A 3 A number of Midasses.

1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋55 If he be but an Academick, though a meer mammothrept, and perhaps a Midas.

1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iii. 324 Our Midas sits Lord Chancellor of Plays!

1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxiii. 379 If he could render each individual richer than Midas, and every city greater than Babylon.

1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 211 We are looked upon as men made of money,—as so many Midases, making gold with a touch.

1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum III. xxxix. 899 He would talk of the touch of Midas.

1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) viii. 187 Philip could set them on fire. He was a sort of spiritual Midas.

1945 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 39 1027 With the raw materials of beauty and symmetry all around in the form of earth, sky, water, and trees, money-mad Midases would have none of them.

1973 J. Bronowski Ascent of Man (1976) iv. 134 The Spaniards plundered Peru for its gold, which the Inca aristocracy had collected as we might collect stamps, with the touch of Midas.

1994 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 28 Aug. (Queensland ed.) 85/1 For added spice, stir in the box-office appeal of movie Midas Steven Spielberg.

Derivatives

ˈMidas-like adv. and adj.

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a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D1^v He weares a lords reuenewe on his back, And, Midas like he iets it in the court.

1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 350 Braue Raphael, whose only touch of a finger could, Midas like, turne gally pots into gold.

1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iv. 65 As if you had seen him touching the twigs of the Pyncheon-elm, and, Midas-like, transmuting them to gold.

1897 Overland Monthly Mar. 264 I'd tell Them—Midas-like—a secret, to the end That they in turn should tell it to the world.

1948 Jrnl. Philos. 45 99 Plato shows the ideally selfish man of Thrasymachus ending up in Midas-like isolation.

1984 R. Warren Echo I. 16 Light pools gold in olive oil left on the plates and Midas-like touches the pale green globes of grapes and gleaming ellipse at the rim of a glass.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	midas
释义	Midasn. Brit. /ˈmʌɪdəs/, U.S. /ˈmaɪdəs/ Forms: 1500s Midasses (plural), 1500s Mydas, 1500s– Midas. Also with lower-case initial. Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Midas. Etymology: < the name of Midas (classical Latin Midās, ancient Greek Μίδας), a fabled king of Phrygia, to whom Bacchus granted that everything that he touched should turn to gold (a gift that had to be withdrawn to prevent his dying of hunger), and to whom Apollo gave ass's ears as a punishment for insensitivity to the charm of his lyre. N.E.D. (1906) gives the pronunciation as (məi·dæs) /ˈmaɪdæs/. I. Compounds. 1. Midas ear n. a. An incapacity to appreciate something (usually in plural); also in Midas-eared adj. ΚΠ 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 439 Ye must vnderstand that Princes haue sometyme Argus eyes, and Midas eares. ?1570 T. Howell Newe Sonets sig. Fiii ^v When she in deede, her selfe will feede, and take her priuate gaine, and make the weare kyng, Midas eare, as though she tooke the paine. 1648 Mercurius Anti-mercurius sig. A1 Mercurius Anti-Mercurius, Communicating all Humours, Conditions, Forgeries and Lyes of Mydas-eard Newsmongers. 1733 B. Booth Mem. 47 A double Infamy's thy Due, And Midas' Ears shall grace thy Head. 1832 C. Webbe Lyric Leaves 122 Sounds which near Might seem discordant to some Midas' ear, But, in the distance mingling, make sweet harmony. 1850 H. F. James Abolitionism Unveiled 3/2 Bankers, stock-jobbing and midas-eared Mammonites, self-styled Abolitionists. 1901 Contemp. Rev. Apr. 474 He is cordially hated by bankers, promoters, speculators and most men of the Midas-eared class. 1966 Shakespeare Q. 17 121 The satyr-piper is blind as is his friend with the long Midas-ears (Folly) who helps lead blind and blindfolded humanity to virtue's perishing. b. The shell of the volute Ellobium aurismidae. Also Midas's ear. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > order Pulmonifera > Inoperculata > family Auriculidae > member of genus Auricula > shell of Midas's ear1713 1713 J. Petiver Aquatilium Animalium Amboinæ 2 Auris Midæ..Midas Ear. 1776 E. M. da Costa Elements Conchol. 209 The Midas's Ear, and others, for these Shells, though in shape and appearance they seem Buccina, yet, their mouth..strongly distinguishes them. 1835 Penny Cycl. III. 109 Auricula Midæ (Lam.), voluta auris Midæ (Linn.), the Midas's ear of collectors, is a good example of the genus. 1982 R. T. Abbott & S. P. Dance Compendium of Seashells 282 Midas ear. 2. General attributive, with allusion to King Midas's gift of turning everything he touched into gold (see etymology); also in Midas-fingered adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > becoming > unfailing ability to > one who Midas1584 1584 C. Robinson et al. Handefull Pleasant Delites (new ed.) sig. Cvii Like momish mates of Midas mood, They gape to get that doth no good. 1619 H. Hutton Follie's Anat. sig. B5^v As if some taylor had bound on with points, Nero's great belly, to staru'd Midas ioynts. a1628 F. Greville Treat. Monarchy x, in Remains (1670) 119 What Midas wish, what dreams of Alchimy Can with these true Crown-Mines compared be? 1667 N. Billingsley Treasury Divine Rapture 203 The dunghil Wretch, troubled with Midas Itch, Becomes a beggar by becoming rich. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 507 Ten thousand casks,..Touched by the Midas finger of the State, Bleed gold for ministers to sport away. 1891 F. T. Palgrave Visions of Eng. 103 Glades yet unsear'd by hand Of Midas-finger'd Autumn, massy-green. 1925 E. Sitwell Troy Park 69 The ass-hide grass grows over her ears And Midas Silence turns to gold Each little sound she never hears. 3. Midas touch n. (also the Midas touch) the ability to turn one's actions to financial advantage; the fact of having one's actions always bring financial reward, whether intentionally or not. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > wealth > [noun] > becoming > unfailing ability to Midas touch1652 1652 T. Benlowes Those Ladies, Sir in E. Benlowes Theophila Like as Midas Touch made Gold: So, thus Theophila's Touch may make Theophilus. 1657 E. Benlowes Sacred Friendship xviii Next, all the Rocks around the spatious Shore My Midas Soveraign Touch should turn to Ore. 1813 H. Smith & J. Smith Horace in London i. xxxv. 102 Goddess!.. Whose Midas touch our gold supplies. 1898 Cosmopolitan Jan. 248/2 From the rude tuition of its winds and waves he gained a knowledge which..he turned in later years with true Midas-touch into his vast treasures of gold. 1960 Times 18 July 3/4 Picasso, with his Midas touch, has at first try made the lino-cut a more dignified medium. 1997 Gallop! Jan. 13/2 But his Midas touch seemed to have deserted him as he was backing losers all day. II. Simple uses. 4. allusively. †(a) A person so insensible as to be incapable of appreciating something. Obsolete. (b) A person whose actions always bring financial reward, whether intentionally or not. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xxxi^v (note) Midas, the Poetes faine to haue longe eares. 1579–80 G. Harvey Let.-bk. (1884) 98 Eied like an Argus, earde like a Midas.] 1591 T. Nashe in Sir P. Sidney Astrophel & Stella Introd. A 3 A number of Midasses. 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs ⁋55 If he be but an Academick, though a meer mammothrept, and perhaps a Midas. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad (rev. ed.) iii. 324 Our Midas sits Lord Chancellor of Plays! 1781 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall II. xxiii. 379 If he could render each individual richer than Midas, and every city greater than Babylon. 1861 G. M. Musgrave By-roads in Picardy 211 We are looked upon as men made of money,—as so many Midases, making gold with a touch. 1879 C. M. Yonge Magnum Bonum III. xxxix. 899 He would talk of the touch of Midas. 1938 E. Goudge Towers in Mist (1998) viii. 187 Philip could set them on fire. He was a sort of spiritual Midas. 1945 Amer. Polit. Sci. Rev. 39 1027 With the raw materials of beauty and symmetry all around in the form of earth, sky, water, and trees, money-mad Midases would have none of them. 1973 J. Bronowski Ascent of Man (1976) iv. 134 The Spaniards plundered Peru for its gold, which the Inca aristocracy had collected as we might collect stamps, with the touch of Midas. 1994 Sunday Tel. (Sydney) 28 Aug. (Queensland ed.) 85/1 For added spice, stir in the box-office appeal of movie Midas Steven Spielberg. Derivatives ˈMidas-like adv. and adj. ΚΠ a1593 C. Marlowe Edward II (1594) sig. D1^v He weares a lords reuenewe on his back, And, Midas like he iets it in the court. 1670 S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 350 Braue Raphael, whose only touch of a finger could, Midas like, turne gally pots into gold. 1851 N. Hawthorne House of Seven Gables iv. 65 As if you had seen him touching the twigs of the Pyncheon-elm, and, Midas-like, transmuting them to gold. 1897 Overland Monthly Mar. 264 I'd tell Them—Midas-like—a secret, to the end That they in turn should tell it to the world. 1948 Jrnl. Philos. 45 99 Plato shows the ideally selfish man of Thrasymachus ending up in Midas-like isolation. 1984 R. Warren Echo I. 16 Light pools gold in olive oil left on the plates and Midas-like touches the pale green globes of grapes and gleaming ellipse at the rim of a glass. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1569
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