单词 | paroemia |
释义 | paroemiaparemian. Rhetoric. rare after 16th cent. A proverb or adage; an aphorism.In quot. 1854 used as plural. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > saying, maxim, adage > proverb > [noun] byspelc1000 bywordc1050 forbysena1250 riotc1330 proverbc1375 sayingc1390 paroemia1550 nayworda1616 diverb1624 proverbial1645 sooth1655 proverbialism1830 1550 R. Sherry Treat. Schemes & Tropes sig. Cvii Adagium, a sayinge muche vsed and notable for some noueltye. [Margin] Paremia. 1555 R. Sherry Treat. Figures Gram. & Rhetorike f. 26 Paroemia, a saying much vsed..as, I holde the woulfe by the eares. 1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xviii. 157 Parimia, or Prouerb..or, as we vse to call them, old said sawes, as thus: As the olde cocke crowes so doeth the chick: A bad Cooke that cannot his owne fingers lick. 1592 A. Day 2nd Pt. Eng. Secretorie sig. M4v, in Eng. Secretorie (rev. ed.) Parœmia, called amongst vs an Adage or common saying, as thus: Who so toucheth pitch shall be defiled therewith. 1854 Southern Q. Rev. Apr. 355 The German law retains a vast number of these paroemia, as ‘Ein hand ein man’. 1994 Slavic & East European Jrnl. 38 168 Various chronicle accounts, paremia readings, a sermon and synaxarion entries dealing with the deaths or translations of the relics of Boris and Gleb. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1550 |
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