单词 | pictland |
释义 | Pictlandn. Scottish History. The area of Scotland formerly inhabited by the Picts, north of the Firth of Forth. In early use frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > British Isles > Scotland > [noun] > north of Scotland Pictlanda1538 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxvii. 358 Þa ðe..of Peohta londe onweg flugon. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 139 Out of peihtes lond þer came A kniht þat Rollo was his name.] a1538 A. Abell Roit or Quheill of Tyme f. 39, in Dict. Older Sc. Tongue at Pichtland Ane gret spulȝe..brocht in Scotland & Pichland. 1577 in G. Donaldson Reg. Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1966) VII. 171/2 Four oxen..stolen from Pechtlandhillis. a1600 (?c1535) tr. H. Boece Hist. Scotl. (Mar Lodge) (1946) i. iv. 39v The strate..deviding Cathnes fra Orknay is..ȝit callit Pichland firth. a1689 W. Cleland Coll. Poems (1697) 8 The chaste and tossed western-men Were dissipat at Pictland fells. 1706 Hist. Picts (ESTC T142053) xiii. 69 Hungus Secundus, the Twenty Ninth Pictish King..Overthrew in a great and famous Battle, the East Saxon King Athelstaine,..near the Town of Haddina, in Pictland. 1788 R. Galloway Poems 28 Then let a' Pickland's breed encore it, Lang live the Graham. 1808 H. Owen Some Acct. Shrewsbury 298 One of this name [sc. Tromwine] was made Bishop of the Picts in 681..Pictland being then subject to the English. 1860 J. C. Shairp Sketches (1887) 36 To convert Pictland and plant the Church there. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 972/1 Acca..took them into Pictland when he was driven from Hexham. 1997 Eng. Hist. Rev. 112 426 Evidence for the Norse conquest and colonization of northern Pictland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1538 |
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