单词 | periegesis |
释义 | periegesisn. 1. A description of a place or region; a survey. Also in extended use. rare before 19th cent. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1591 |
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