单词 | orphean |
释义 | Orpheanadj.n. A. adj. 1. Of or relating to Orpheus; resembling Orpheus in musical skill or style; melodious, entrancing. Also: resembling or reminiscent of Orpheus's journey into the underworld. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious sweetc900 merryOE softc1230 accordanta1325 well-soundingc1350 cordant1382 sootc1385 songfula1400 melodiousa1425 sugaredc1430 well-toneda1500 tunable1504 dulcea1513 equivalenta1513 consonant?1521 harmonicala1527 harmoniousc1550 consorteda1586 Orphean1593 concentful1595 melodical1596 sweet-recording1598 tuneful1598 sirenical1599 high-tuned1603 nightingale-like1611 soundful?1615 according1626 modulaminous1637 undiscording1645 canorous1646 symphonious1652 concinnous1654 consonous1654 harmonic1667 sirenica1704 symphonial1773 concentual1782 chantant1785 Memnonian1800 melodized1807 Orphic1817 undiscordant1819 concentuous1850 fluting1852 melodic1871 well-orchestrated1872 jarless1876 tuny1885 tunesome1890 1593 Tell-Trothes New-yeares Gift (1876) 45 Charme more then the Orphean musicke. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 99 His soul engross'd th' Monopoly of Arts, And thy Orphæan skill could ravish Hearts. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 17 With other notes then to th' Orphean Lyre I sung of Chaos and Eternal Night. View more context for this quotation 1870 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. (1873) 1st Ser. 157 Refractory feet, that will dance to Orphean measures. 1927 Mod. Lang. Notes 42 476 We seem to catch, along with the Orphean symbols, something like a subterranean passage.., like Homer seen by Dante through Virgil. 2001 Kirkus Rev. (Nexis) 1 June Zule's dangerous trek into the heartland..,an Orphean journey undertaken to retrieve a wife lured away from her grieving husband. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [adjective] > of or following Orphism Orphical1618 Orphic1656 Orpheana1706 Orphizing1884 a1706 J. Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) I. vi. 330 The most zealous abettors of the Orphean and Gentile philology, Porphyry, Hierocles, Celsus, and the rest. An adherent of the Orphic philosophy (see Orphic adj. 1a). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > [noun] > Orphism > adherent of Orpheotelesta1610 Orpheist1678 Orphean1818 Orphica1820 1818 R. P. Knight Symbolic Lang. (1876) 5 (note) The Orpheans endeavored to express divine things by Symbols. 1827 G. Higgins Celtic Druids 33 Mr. Davies is of opinion that the Orpheans were Druids. Compounds Orphean warbler n. [after the former scientific Latin name Sylvia orphea (C. J. Temminck Man. d'ornithol. (1815) 107) or French bec-fin orphée (1815 or earlier)] a brownish-grey and white warbler, Sylvia hortensis (family Sylviidae), of southern Europe, south-western Asia, and northern Africa. ΚΠ 1856 W. Yarrell Second Suppl. Hist. Brit. Birds 10 Curruca orphea. Orpheus Warbler.] 1890 Cent. Dict. Orphean,..in ornith., singing sweetly; melodious: specifically applied to a warbler, Sylvia orphea. 1933 Discovery July 224/1 There is the Orphean warbler, the most beautiful and wildest of that family. 1990 M. Tomkinson Ess. Tunisia 91/2 Orphean warblers, summer visitors to Tunisia. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1593 |
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