单词 | monomachia |
释义 | monomachian. = monomachy n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 1624 T. Heywood Γυναικεῖον ii. 110 He died in a single monomachia valiantlie by the hand of Achilles. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. ix. 198 Even in my younger days, I was no friend to the monomachia, or duel, and would rather walk with Sir Priest than with Sir Knight. 1822 Ld. Byron Let. 6 Feb. in Wks. (1901) VI. 10 You must be my second..you,..well versed in the duello, or monomachia [Marchand ed. IX. 101 has ‘monomachie’]. 1845 R. Ford Hand-bk. Travellers in Spain II. viii. 604 This monomachia is evidently Oriental. 1903 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 46/2 These were the first wounds he received either in battle, siege or the monomachia. 1989 Stud. Eng. Lit.: Eng. Number (Tokyo) 97 In the first half of Paradise Lost Milton repeats the classical monomachia or single combat scene six times. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1624 |
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