| 单词 | netherland |
| 释义 | > as lemmasnetherland 5. Designating what lies, or is imagined as lying, beneath the earth; of, belonging to, or native to hell or the underworld. See also nether region n. 2a and netherworld n. 2; cf. underworld n. 2a. Also figurative: designating a sphere of action or thought existing, or considered as existing below or at a lower level than the usual; esp. in netherland. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [adjective] nethereOE hellena1225 infernalc1374 infern?a1513 hellish1530 helly1532 Avernal?1548 hellic1566 subterrestrial1592 Plutonic1596 Acherontic1597 Plutonical1599 Stygian1601 subterranean1603 Plutonian1604 Acherontical1610 subterraneous1631 subterraneal1643 Tophetical1684 pandemoniac1793 submundane1805 subterrene1809 netherworld1828 pandemonic1833 Acheronian1849 transacherontic1854 Avernian1864 trans-Stygian1899 eOE (Mercian) Vespasian Psalter (1965) lxxxvii. 6 (7) Posuerunt me in lacu inferiori in tenebris : settun mec in seaðe ðæm nioðerran in ðeostrum. OE Blickling Homilies 89 Þu generedest mine saule of þære neoþeran helle. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add.) f. 124v Olde errour of naciouns..halowid..Februere to þe neþir goddis. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Æneis iii, in tr. Virgil Wks. 282 Must pass the Stygian Lake, and view the neather Skies. 1700 J. Dryden Chaucer's Cock & Fox in Wks. (1885) XI. 359 Had Orpheus sung it in the nether sphere, So much the hymn had pleased the tyrant's ear. 1811 R. Heber tr. Pindar in Q. Rev. May 455 In chambers dark and dread Of nether earth abide and penal flame. 1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna i. xxx. 16 The hell, His reign and dwelling beneath nether skies. 1877 L. Morris Epic of Hades i. 10 A cauldron fired With the fires of nether hell. 1921 Periodical Dec. 131 His incarnation is the snake, at Epidauros, Kos, and Rome, and the snake-rod becomes the symbol of the physician; but this mysterious beast was equally the familiar of the buried hero and of the nether-god. 1924 J. Buchan Three Hostages xv. 216 When he came to he was..in a room which felt spacious..but it was..as black as the nether pit. 1972 Observer 16 Apr. (Colour Suppl.) 18/2 I tried to plot and memorise a potential route through this maze of netherland. 1994 Guardian 26 Sept. ii. 2/4 There is scarcely a permanent secretary who doesn't have punts and violet-lawned quadrangles floating through the faded netherlands of his mind. < as lemmas |
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