单词 | mosaist |
释义 | † Mosaistn.1 Obsolete. A person who believes in the literal truth of the creation story at the beginning of the book of Genesis. Also: the writer of that story (rare). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > Genesis > account of Creation > believer in Mosaist1857 Epochist1888 Restitutionalist1888 visionist1888 1857 tr. I. Kalisch Guide for Rational Inq. into Biblical Writings p. x Mosaists have not yet completely fulfilled their mission in the great drama of the history of Mankind. 1887 T. H. Huxley Life & Lett. Darwin II. 196 Inclined to say to both Mosaists and Evolutionists, ‘a plague on both your houses!’ 1890 W. E. Gladstone in Good Words May 303/1 The recorder of the Creation Story in Genesis I may designate by the name of the Mosaist or the Mosaic writer. 1927–9 H. Wheeler Waverley Children's Dict. V. 2842/1 One who accepts the story of the Creation as related in the Pentateuch is a Mosaist. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online June 2020). mosaistn.2 Now rare. An artist who works in mosaic; = mosaicist n. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > ornamental art and craft > mosaic > [noun] > mosaic-worker mosaicist1830 mosaic worker1844 mosaist1864 1864 J. A. Crowe & G. B. Cavalcaselle New Hist. Painting Italy II. 192 Della Valle mentions Angioletto of Gubbio as a mosaist at Orvieto in 1321–1329. 1875 A. J. C. Hare Days near Rome 126 Maestro Giovanni Leonardelli, a glass painter and mosaist long employed in Orvieto. 1887 Athenæum 20 Aug. 242/1 The two master mosaists, or workers in mosaic, of which it treats are Francesco and Valerio Zuccato. 1931 A. Huxley in Sat. Rev. 7 Feb. 185/1 In their two-dimensional abstraction the personages of the Byzantine mosaists are perfectly at home. 1991 Smithsonian (Nexis) July 86 ‘The strange representational methods of modern painters, the methods of the Impressionists, the dot-makers, or the mosaists’..Nordau wrote. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.11857n.21864 |
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