单词 | pandemonium |
释义 | pandemoniumn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). ΘΚΠ 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. 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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