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单词 periegesis
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periegesisn.

Brit. /ˌpɛrɪəˈdʒiːsɪs/, U.S. /ˌpɛriəˈdʒisᵻs/
Forms: 1600s periégesis, 1500s 1800s– periegesis.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek περιήγησις.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek περιήγησις the action of leading about as a guide, a description such as that given by a guide, especially in work titles, already in ancient Greek denoting an outline < ancient Greek περι- peri- prefix + Hellenistic Greek ἥγησις leading ( < ancient Greek ἡγεῖσθαι to lead (see hegumen n.) + -σις -sis suffix; compare exegesis n.), after ancient Greek περιηγεῖσθαι to lead round. Compare post-classical Latin periegesis (6th cent.; already in classical Latin as a Greek word).
1. A description of a place or region; a survey. Also in extended use. rare before 19th cent.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > guidance in travel > [noun] > that which guides or leads > guidebook
itinerarya1552
journal1552
xenagogy1576
itinerario1588
periegesis1591
journey-book1610
wayfaring-book1610
itinerarium1747
guide1759
ambulator1774
guidebook1814
tour-book1824
travel guide1881
tourist guide1924
1591 H. Savile tr. Tacitus Ende of Nero: Fower Bks. Hist. ii. 79 Dionysius in his periegesis speaking of Alexandria, where is, sayeth he, the temple of the great god Iupiter Sinopita beautified with much golde.
1627 B. Jonson in M. Drayton Battaile Agincourt sig. a1v In thy admired Periégesis, Or vniversall circumduction Of all that reade thy Poly-Olbyon.
1857 J. W. Donaldson Christian Orthodoxy 228 The book of Joshua..actually mentions (xviii. 9) a periegesis of the Holy land ‘described by cities into seven parts in a book’.
1869 W. H. D. Adams Queen of Adriatic 29 (note) Scymnus..of Chios, wrote a Periegesis, or description of the earth, referred to and quoted by Stephanus and other writers.
1902 Cambr. Mod. Hist. I. 65 His [sc. Francis Bacon's] own vast survey of knowledge..he modestly described as a coasting voyage or periegesis of the ‘New Intellectual World’.
1959 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 79 155 He might have included the temple in the first stage of his periegesis of the agora.
2000 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 90 186 Topographical texts like the periegesis of Greece by Pausanias.
2. A journey or progress, a tour. Obsolete. rare.
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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > tour
round1620
tour1642
giro1670
tourification1802
periegesis1820
1820 C. Lamb in London Mag. Dec. 624/1 In his periegesis, or triumphant progress throughout this island.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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