单词 | paean |
释义 | paeann. 1. Ancient Greek History. A solemn song or chant; spec. a hymn of thanksgiving for deliverance, victory in battle, etc., addressed to Apollo (or occasionally another god or goddess); (hence also) a war song invoking such victory. †io paean: an utterance of ‘O Paean!’, ‘Thanks to Paean!’ (an exclamation of joy or triumph addressed to Apollo). ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > shout of triumph [interjection] io paean1592 victory1595 vae victis1612 victoria1639 society > armed hostility > victory > [noun] > victory song triumphal1589 paean1603 epinicion1614 society > faith > worship > church music > hymn > kinds of hymn > thanksgiving > [noun] Te DeumOE paean1603 society > armed hostility > war > [noun] > war-song war-song1757 paean1770 1589 T. Nashe Anat. Absurditie sig. ¶iiiv Time, wel maist thou exult, that in the euening of thy age, thou conceiuedst such a subiect of wonder, & Peace, sing io pæan.] 1592 J. Lyly Midas v. iii Io paeans let us sing, To physicke's and to poesie's king. 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1251 The Poets that composed the songs of victorie, named Pæanes. 1656 T. Stanley Hist. Philos. II. vi. 7 Which Athenæus, proveth against the calumniations of Demophilus not to be a sacred hymne or Pæan, but a Scolion or Festivall Song. 1706 N. Rowe Ulysses i. i. 2 What Pæan shall be sung to bless his Labours? What Voice of Joy shall cry, Hail King of Ithaca? 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1879) I. 60/2 The King..himself began the pæan, which was the signal to advance. 1850 W. Mure Hist. Lang. & Lit. Greece III. 73 The prosodion was the hymn sung by the choristers in their procession to the altar or sanctuary... The prosodion, accordingly, is occasionally classed under the general head of Pæan, by the special title of Prosodiac, or Processional, pæan. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer xiii. 151 The triumphal hymn of praise, or paian, is commemorated in the Iliad, as already established in use. 1921 H. R. James Our Hellenic Heritage iii. 43 To Apollo in this character [sc. The Averter] his worshippers raised the ‘paean’ or song of deliverance, which became the Greek war-song and chant of victory. 1990 A. A. Burn Penguin Hist. Greece (BNC) 198 Pindar..wrote Paeans for many cities; Paian was the name of an ancient god, now identified with Apollo as Preserver; it was a traditional Paean that the Greeks sang before Salamis. 2001 I. Rutherford (title) Pindar's paeans: a reading of the fragments with a survey of the genre. 2. A song of praise or thanksgiving; a shout or song of triumph, joy, or exultation. Also figurative: an expression of praise or admiration; a tribute (to something). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > gratitude > [noun] > thanks > song of paean1598 charister1708 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > approval or sanction > commendation or praise > formal expression of praise > [noun] > song lovingeOE paean1598 Magnificat1614 praise song1886 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > song of thanksgiving paean1598 charister1708 society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > song of praise or gladness anthemc1500 hymn1513 paean1598 Hallelujah Chorus1775 1544 E. Gosynhyll (title) The prayse of all women, called mulierum pean.] 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. viii. sig. G Tut, rather Peans sing Hermaphrodite. 1604 M. Drayton Owle sig. Gv The warbling Mauis mirth-ful Peans sung. 1646 G. Buck Hist. Life Richard III iii. 78 Who would have sung Peans to his glory. 1711 A. Pope Ess. Crit. 13 Hear, in all Tongues Triumphant Pæans ring! 1790 J. Williams Shrove Tuesday (1794) 6 I'd make him chaunt a solemn drimmundub Or jocund plangstee, pæan or quaint air. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 124 I sung the joyful Pæan clear,..Waiting to strive a happy strife. 1868 Ld. Lytton Orval in New Poems II. 306 The pæan Of the People's Liberty! 1923 D. H. Lawrence Birds, Beasts & Flowers (N.Y. ed.) 82 Away with a pæan of derision You winged blood-drop. 1971 Films in Rev. Aug. 427/2 Ostensibly a delicate mood piece about, and paean to, male adolescence in the pre-Bomb and pre-Pill days, Summer of '42 is sadly smothered by Legrand's musical treacle. 2000 K. Atkinson Emotionally Weird (2001) 226 The bathroom was a paean to sixties' taste, from the sickly primrose yellow suite with transparent acrylic taps to the herringbone pine panelling. Derivatives paeanize v. [after ancient Greek (Doric) παιανίζειν (Attic-Ionic παιωνίζειν)] †(a) intransitive to chant or sing a paean (obsolete); (b) transitive (also intransitive) (in extended use) to praise or pay tribute to someone or something. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > victory > be victorious [verb (intransitive)] > sing victory song paeanize1629 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > sing other music organOE chantc1425 madrigal1593 lullaby1603 paeanize1629 holler1852 threne1890 1629 T. Hobbes tr. Thucydides Eight Bks. Peloponnesian Warre ii. 134 The Peloponnesians..were Pæanizing, as if they had already had the victory. 1885 W. Arthur Religion without God 111 Dr. Robinet, who himself takes pains to show us that the object of worship is ‘existence’ and not ‘beings’, nevertheless thus pæanizes. Humanity..is the only true Supreme Being! 1922 S. H. Clark & W. Campbell Federal Reserve Monster ii. 6 A subsidized press bally-hooed, touted and paeanized the proposed Federal Reserve System. 1989 W. O. McCagg Hist. Habsburg Jews (1992) ix. 140 The 1815 settlement..had paeanized aristocratic ‘conservatism’, while excluding middle-class Liberalism. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paeanv. poetic. Now rare. transitive. To sing (a song, etc.) in a form resembling a paean. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > celebrate in song singc900 record?a1534 chant1557 warble1605 carol1637 paean1820 besing1828 minstrel1873 1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 186 Notes of vict'ry pæan'd high! 1900 F. B. Money-Coutts Myst. of Godliness 113 Where Imagination dwells, And sings of all things that are true, Not for regard of heavens or hells, But bird-like pæaning the blue. 1904 T. Hardy Dynasts: Pt. 1st 18 I saw good sport therein, and pâean'd the Will That It restrained so stultifying a move! 1911 H. S. Harrison Queed ix. 109 ‘It's splendid... Oh, how fine!’ pæaned she. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1592v.1820 |
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