Old Man of the Mountainn.

Brit.

/ˌəʊl(d) man ɒv ðə ˈmaʊntᵻn/, U.S.

/ˌoʊl(d) ˌmæn ə(v) ðə ˈmaʊntn/

Forms: see old man n., of prep., the adj., pron.², and n.¹, and mountain n.; also 1800s– Old Man of the Mountains.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on an Arabic lexical item. Etymons: old man n., of prep., the adj., mountain n.

Etymology: < old man n. + of prep. + the adj. + mountain n., after Arabic šaiḵ-al-jibal.

1. (A name given to) Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ (d. 1124), founder of the Assassins, who established a base for the sect at Alamut, a mountain fortress near Qazvin in northern Iran, and his successors, esp. Rāšid al-Dīn Sinān (d. 1192–3).

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of

assassin1340

Old Man of the Mountain1579

fedai1723

thug1810

nasty man1863

Jack the Ripper1888

ripper1909

trunk murderer1925

sex killer1935

mass-murderer1943

serial murderer1947

psycho-killer1949

serial killer1967

spree killer1983

1579 J. Frampton tr. M. Polo Most Noble & Famous Trauels xvii. 27 That way,..could not be travelled to Crerima for the crueltie of the king of that countrie,..from whome fewe coulde scape, but eyther were robbed or slayne. And for this cause Manye kings did paye him tribute, and hys name is as muche to saye, as the olde man of the mountayne [Sp. viejo de la montana].

1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. i. iv. 72 Hauing spoken of the Countrey, the old man of the Mountayne shall bee spoken of, of whom Marco heard much from many.

1773 W. Jones tr. M. M. K. Astarabadi Hist. Nader Shah p. xiii The Old man of the mountain, who is mentioned in our accounts of the Crusades, was no other than a Prince of the Ismaëlian family.

1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. p. xvi/1 He was stabbed by a Batanist, one of the subjects of the Old Man of the Mountain; whilst he was reading a petition which the assassin had presented.

1818 W. Marsden tr. Trav. Marco Polo I. xxi. 114 There was no person however powerful, who having become exposed to the enmity of the Old man of the mountain, could escape assassination.

1845 J. M. Neale Battle of Galliots in Mirror of Faith xix. 69 And others told of the river old, that let God's people pass..And the Old Man of the Mountain, that dwells by Lebanon.

1905 H. W. C. Davis Eng. under Normans & Angevins xi. 308 An Arab writer lays the blame on Saladin, affirming that he had offered the chief of the Assassins, the Old Man of the Mountain, a heavy bribe.

1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep vi. 118 Desperadoes who had crushed their lives were in-spanned in Castor's sense..like the servants of the Old Man of the Mountain in the Crusades.

1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xiv. 96 Perhaps they shared the secrets of the Isma'ilis, for they had had dealings with the Assassins of the Old Man of the Mountain.

†2. In extended use and allusively. A powerful and ruthless politician. Obsolete.

ΚΠ

1792 H. Walpole Let. 4 Sept. (1905) XV. 138 A whole senate has assumed the accursed dignity of the ‘Old Man of the Mountain’, and spawned a legion of assassins.

1871 N.Y. Herald 6 Sept. 6/6 It seems as if ‘the Old Man of the Mountains’ [sc. Brigham Young] meant to fight every step of the federal government for the supremacy of Utah.

a. A mountain guide or dweller. rare.

ΘΚΠ

society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads > in mountains

maron1511

mountain guide1810

Old Man of the Mountain1837

Sherpa1959

1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. ii. 220 Our party..was..struck with the romance of the domestic history of the old man of the mountain, as the guide is called.

1986 J. Purkis Pref. Wordsworth (BNC) 42 Others give the impression of a strange, and slightly dotty, old man of the mountains.

2001 Herald (Rock Hill, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Special section) 3 He and his wife had been to the top many times, making it an almost weekly recreation. Thus Billy remained ‘the old man of the mountain’.

b. A rock formation resembling the face of an old man. Chiefly as a proper name.

ΚΠ

1861 Sci. Amer. 14 Sept. 173/3 E. S. Barrett, of Concord, Mass., last week succeeded in reaching the profile rock known as ‘the Old Man of the Mountain’ on the White Mountains.

1876 Harper's Mag. Nov. 845/2 The walls..bore the shapes of stern weird human faces, as distinct as that of our own ‘Old Man of the Mountains’ at Franconia.

1902 W. Carleton To Mountain Profile in Songs of Two Cent. 85 This magnificent freak of nature, famous everywhere as ‘The Old Man of the Mountain’, is well known to those who have frequented the Franconia Range.

1939 G. B. Pickwell Deserts 48/2 The devil's garden is well named: with boulders and ‘barrels’ and ‘Old Men of the Mountain’ it is a grotesque feature of the land of sun and wind and freakish rain.

1987 Hist. & Theory 26 350 New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain has his granite nose bolted to the face.

4. A long-standing burden or problem.Perhaps confused with old man of the sea n. at old man n. Phrases 3.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who > hard to get rid of

bur1600

old man of the sea1712

Old Man of the Mountain1841

albatross1883

1841 M. Lemon What will World Say? IV. i. 84 I picked him up at the ‘Rainbow’, and, like the ‘old man of the mountain,’ he has made me carry him about ever since.

1894 Cent. Mag. July 440/2 But this, instead of representing France, represents the Old Man of the Mountain she is carrying on her back.

1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South iii. ii. 280 The farmer was saddled..with..higher living costs and the same finance charges that had always been his Old Man of the Mountain.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	old man of the mountain
释义	Old Man of the Mountainn. Brit. /ˌəʊl(d) man ɒv ðə ˈmaʊntᵻn/, U.S. /ˌoʊl(d) ˌmæn ə(v) ðə ˈmaʊntn/ Forms: see old man n., of prep., the adj., pron.², and n.¹, and mountain n.; also 1800s– Old Man of the Mountains. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; modelled on an Arabic lexical item. Etymons: old man n., of prep., the adj., mountain n. Etymology: < old man n. + of prep. + the adj. + mountain n., after Arabic šaiḵ-al-jibal. 1. (A name given to) Ḥasan-e Ṣabbāḥ (d. 1124), founder of the Assassins, who established a base for the sect at Alamut, a mountain fortress near Qazvin in northern Iran, and his successors, esp. Rāšid al-Dīn Sinān (d. 1192–3). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > killing > man-killer or homicide > [noun] > murderer or assassin > types of assassin1340 Old Man of the Mountain1579 fedai1723 thug1810 nasty man1863 Jack the Ripper1888 ripper1909 trunk murderer1925 sex killer1935 mass-murderer1943 serial murderer1947 psycho-killer1949 serial killer1967 spree killer1983 1579 J. Frampton tr. M. Polo Most Noble & Famous Trauels xvii. 27 That way,..could not be travelled to Crerima for the crueltie of the king of that countrie,..from whome fewe coulde scape, but eyther were robbed or slayne. And for this cause Manye kings did paye him tribute, and hys name is as muche to saye, as the olde man of the mountayne [Sp. viejo de la montana]. 1625 S. Purchas Pilgrimes III. i. iv. 72 Hauing spoken of the Countrey, the old man of the Mountayne shall bee spoken of, of whom Marco heard much from many. 1773 W. Jones tr. M. M. K. Astarabadi Hist. Nader Shah p. xiii The Old man of the mountain, who is mentioned in our accounts of the Crusades, was no other than a Prince of the Ismaëlian family. 1777 J. Richardson Dict. Persian, Arabic & Eng. I. p. xvi/1 He was stabbed by a Batanist, one of the subjects of the Old Man of the Mountain; whilst he was reading a petition which the assassin had presented. 1818 W. Marsden tr. Trav. Marco Polo I. xxi. 114 There was no person however powerful, who having become exposed to the enmity of the Old man of the mountain, could escape assassination. 1845 J. M. Neale Battle of Galliots in Mirror of Faith xix. 69 And others told of the river old, that let God's people pass..And the Old Man of the Mountain, that dwells by Lebanon. 1905 H. W. C. Davis Eng. under Normans & Angevins xi. 308 An Arab writer lays the blame on Saladin, affirming that he had offered the chief of the Assassins, the Old Man of the Mountain, a heavy bribe. 1936 J. Buchan Island of Sheep vi. 118 Desperadoes who had crushed their lives were in-spanned in Castor's sense..like the servants of the Old Man of the Mountain in the Crusades. 1989 W. Weaver tr. U. Eco Foucault's Pendulum xiv. 96 Perhaps they shared the secrets of the Isma'ilis, for they had had dealings with the Assassins of the Old Man of the Mountain. †2. In extended use and allusively. A powerful and ruthless politician. Obsolete. ΚΠ 1792 H. Walpole Let. 4 Sept. (1905) XV. 138 A whole senate has assumed the accursed dignity of the ‘Old Man of the Mountain’, and spawned a legion of assassins. 1871 N.Y. Herald 6 Sept. 6/6 It seems as if ‘the Old Man of the Mountains’ [sc. Brigham Young] meant to fight every step of the federal government for the supremacy of Utah. 3. a. A mountain guide or dweller. rare. ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > one who guides or leads > in mountains maron1511 mountain guide1810 Old Man of the Mountain1837 Sherpa1959 1837 H. Martineau Society in Amer. I. ii. 220 Our party..was..struck with the romance of the domestic history of the old man of the mountain, as the guide is called. 1986 J. Purkis Pref. Wordsworth (BNC) 42 Others give the impression of a strange, and slightly dotty, old man of the mountains. 2001 Herald (Rock Hill, S. Carolina) (Nexis) 5 Aug. (Special section) 3 He and his wife had been to the top many times, making it an almost weekly recreation. Thus Billy remained ‘the old man of the mountain’. b. A rock formation resembling the face of an old man. Chiefly as a proper name. ΚΠ 1861 Sci. Amer. 14 Sept. 173/3 E. S. Barrett, of Concord, Mass., last week succeeded in reaching the profile rock known as ‘the Old Man of the Mountain’ on the White Mountains. 1876 Harper's Mag. Nov. 845/2 The walls..bore the shapes of stern weird human faces, as distinct as that of our own ‘Old Man of the Mountains’ at Franconia. 1902 W. Carleton To Mountain Profile in Songs of Two Cent. 85 This magnificent freak of nature, famous everywhere as ‘The Old Man of the Mountain’, is well known to those who have frequented the Franconia Range. 1939 G. B. Pickwell Deserts 48/2 The devil's garden is well named: with boulders and ‘barrels’ and ‘Old Men of the Mountain’ it is a grotesque feature of the land of sun and wind and freakish rain. 1987 Hist. & Theory 26 350 New Hampshire's Old Man of the Mountain has his granite nose bolted to the face. 4. A long-standing burden or problem.Perhaps confused with old man of the sea n. at old man n. Phrases 3. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > types or manners of hindrance > [noun] > encumberment > that which or one who > hard to get rid of bur1600 old man of the sea1712 Old Man of the Mountain1841 albatross1883 1841 M. Lemon What will World Say? IV. i. 84 I picked him up at the ‘Rainbow’, and, like the ‘old man of the mountain,’ he has made me carry him about ever since. 1894 Cent. Mag. July 440/2 But this, instead of representing France, represents the Old Man of the Mountain she is carrying on her back. 1941 W. J. Cash Mind of South iii. ii. 280 The farmer was saddled..with..higher living costs and the same finance charges that had always been his Old Man of the Mountain. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579
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