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单词 pandemonium
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pandemoniumn.

Brit. /ˌpandᵻˈməʊnɪəm/, U.S. /ˌpændəˈmoʊniəm/
Forms: 1600s– pandaemonium, 1800s pandimonium, 1800s– pandemonium. Also (in sense 1) with capital initial.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin, combined with English elements; probably modelled on a Latin lexical item. Etymons: pan- comb. form, demon n., Latin -ium.
Etymology: < ancient Greek παν- pan- comb. form + δαίμων demon n. + classical Latin -ium -y suffix4, probably after classical Latin daemonium (see demon n.).
1. In form Pandemonium. The abode of all demons; hell, the infernal regions.spec. a place represented by Milton in Paradise Lost as the capital of hell, containing the council chamber of the Evil Spirits.
ΘΚΠ
the world > the supernatural > deity > hell > [noun]
helleOE
hellOE
perditiona1382
perishingc1384
welling woea1400
hellwardc1400
Topheta1425
gehenne1481
to devilwardc1550
limbo1581
Averna1592
Hades1597
Sheol1599
other place1604
underworld1608
infernals1613
gehenna1623
lower world1639
netherworld1640
pandemonium1667
subterrenea1711
diablerie1776
inferno1834
ballyhooly1837
nether region1839
Sam Hill1839
Ballyhack1843
tunket1871
bogydom1880
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost i. 756 A solemn Councel forthwith to be held At Pandæmonium, the high Capital Of Satan and his Peers. View more context for this quotation
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 424 About the walls Of Pandæmonium, Citie and proud seate Of Lucifer. View more context for this quotation
1713 J. Addison in Guardian 9 July 1/2 He wou'd have a large Piece of Machinery represent the Pan-dæmonium [of Milton].
1743 Ld. Chesterfield Old England No. 3 in Misc. Wks. (1777) I. 116 ‘This..is certainly levelled at us,’ says a conscious sullen apostate patriot to his fallen brethren in the Pandæmonium.
1818 M. W. Shelley Frankenstein II. iii. 41 It presented to me then as exquisite and divine a retreat as Pandæmonium appeared to the dæmons of hell.
a1854 H. Reed Lect. Brit. Poets (1857) vi. 229 The peerage of Pandemonium stood mute in expectation of Satan's voice.
1891 T. Hardy Tess of the D'Urbervilles III. xlviii. 147 Amid the..confusion as of Pandemonium, Tess untied her last sheaf.
1975 H. Bloom Map of Misreading iii. vii. 139 The passage describes the sudden building, out of the deep, of Pandaemonium, the palace of Satan.
2. In extended use.
a. A centre of vice or wickedness; a haunt of evil. Now: esp. a place or state of utter confusion and uproar; a noisy disorderly place.
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the mind > goodness and badness > badness or evil > [noun] > centre of
pandemonium1755
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > (a) noisy > place or situation
Paris gardena1633
bear garden1640
bedlam1661
garden-Paris1663
pandemonium1755
society > morality > moral evil > [noun] > place of evil
swallowc1380
hella1450
sink1526
pump1531
Sodom?1550
Tophet1618
pandemonium1800
hell's kitchen1827
sin city1973
1755 M—cki—n's Answer to Tully 9 As I had at the Beginning..waggishly term'd the Audience my Pandemonium; a Hiss was the most proper Token of Applause.
1779 H. Swinburne Trav. Spain xlii. 367 Every province..would in turn appear a Paradise, and a Pandaemonium.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames iv. 190 The various ramifications of this Pandæmonium of Iniquity.
1813 Examiner 17 May 317/2 The Emperor Tiberius..wrote to the Senate from his pandæmonium at Capreæ.
1816 Ld. Byron Domest. Pieces ii. ii To make a Pandemonium where she dwells, And reign the Hecate of domestic hells.
1872 ‘M. Twain’ Roughing It lxviii. 490 Natives from the several islands..had made the place a pandemonium every night with their howlings and wailings, beating of tom-toms and dancing.
1901 Contemp. Rev. Mar. 323 Those slums have become a pandemonium of drunkenness and the social evil.
1976 J. I. M. Stewart Young Pattullo xiv. 300 Naples roared and screeched around us. It was a pandemonium of a place.
1993 N.Y. Times Mag. 22 Aug. 22/1 The image of Long Island..has turned into a veritable tabloid pandemonium, no longer just tacky, but..ludicrously, demonically possessed.
b. Utter confusion, uproar; wild and noisy disorder; a tumult; chaos. (Now the usual sense).
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the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > degree, kind, or quality of sound > loudness > confused sound > [noun] > uproar or tumult
brack?c1200
ludea1275
ludingc1275
grede13..
to-doc1330
stevenc1385
ruitc1390
shoutingc1405
rumourc1425
dirdumc1440
shout1487
rippit?1507
glamer?a1513
rangat?a1513
reird?a1513
larumc1515
reirdour1535
uproar1544
clamouring1548
racket1565
baldare1582
rack jack1582
rufflery1582
pother1603
rut1607
clamorousnessa1617
hurricane1639
clutter1656
flaw1676
splutter1677
rout1684
hirdum-dirdum1724
fracas1727
collieshangie1737
racketing1760
hullabaloo1762
hurly1806
bobbery1816
trevally1819
pandemonium1827
hurly-burly1830
outroar1845
on-ding1871
tow-row1877
ruckus1885
molrowing1892
rookus1892
rux1918
the world > relative properties > order > disorder > confusion or disorder > commotion, disturbance, or disorder > [noun] > (a) noisy
rippit?1507
hubbleshowa1525
burlinga1533
hubble-shubblec1550
burle1563
coil1567
hirdy-girdy1568
riff-raff1582
rut1607
hubbuba1625
clutter1656
sputter1673
splutter1677
rattle1688
rumpus1745
ree-raw1797
bobbery1816
trevally1819
stramash1821
nitty1822
hell's delight1823
pandemonium1827
oration1828
Bob's-a-dying1829
hubbaboo1830
reerie1832
circus1869
tow-row1877
ruaille buaille1885
brouhaha1890
foofaraw1933
bangarang1943
bassa-bassa1956
1827 R. Montgomery Age Reviewed ii. 304 Without,—a Pandemonium seems to sound, where busy footfalls beat along the ground.
1865 F. Parkman Huguenots iv, in Pioneers of France in New World 55 When night came, it brought with it a pandemonium of dancing and whooping, drumming and feasting.
1897 Daily News 29 Nov. 4/5 On Saturday pandemonium again reigned in the Reichsrath.
1917 E. Wallace Kate, plus Ten (1919) v. 93 The noisy coon band kept up its rhythmetic pandemonium in one corner of the room.
1949 K. Clark Landscape into Art ii. 30 After the pandemonium of religious war and the hurly-burly..men needed an interval of calm.
1988 Independent 26 July 2/8 Pandemonium broke out..when a Michael Jackson look-a-like was confronted by fans, bringing traffic to a standstill.
3. Tailoring. = hell n. 7a. Obsolete. rare.
ΘΚΠ
the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > tailoring or making clothes > [noun] > place > board > under board
hell1589
pandemonium1808
1808 Salmagundi 25 Jan. 428 Which, like a tailor's pandimonium, or a giblet-pie, are receptacles for scientific fragments of all sorts and sizes.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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