Pisgahn.

Brit.

/ˈpɪzɡə/, U.S.

/ˈpɪzɡə/

Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pisgah.

Etymology: < Pisgah (biblical Hebrew Piṣgāh), literally ‘peak, height, cliff’, the name of the peak of Mount Nebo, from which Moses saw the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3:27).

I. Compounds.

1. attributive. Designating a faint view or glimpse of something unobtainable or distant, esp. in Pisgah sight, Pisgah view.Used with allusion to Deuteronomy 3:27, in which Moses is allowed to view the Promised Land from the peak of Mount Nebo.

ΚΠ

1605 W. Symonds (title) Pisgah Evangelica By the Method of the Reuelation, presenting..those Cananites ouer whom..Iesus Christ and his..Church shall triumph.]

1647 T. Fuller Serm. Assurance 16 Their soules do steale a Glymps, Glance, or Pisgah-sight of heaven.

1650 T. Fuller (title) A Pisgah sight of Palestine.

?1735 T. Gutteridge Universal Elegy 3 Many a wrestling Jacob..hath..had a Pisgah View of the heavenly Canaan.

1743 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 120 Giving a glimpse, or Pisgah-sight of the future Fulness of her Glory.

1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 7 Mar. (1946) 32 This extrication of my affairs, though only a Pisgah prospect, occupies my mind.

1865 G. Grote Plato I. xvi. 472 We get only a Pisgah view of our promised adviser.

1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 6 Dec. 22 I'd had my first Pisgah-sight of the principles..when I was a fourth-class postmaster on a star-route in Arkansas.

1959 C. Singer Short Hist. Sci. Ideas vii. 267 It was this that prevented Bacon from entering into the promised land, of which but a Pisgah view was granted him.

1979 Notes & Queries Feb. 55/1 Sir James Murray planned and led to within a Pisgah sight of completion a larger and more scientifically organized work of linguistic reference than Dr. Johnson could have produced.

1997 19th-cent. Lit. 52 253 There is an exhilarating sense of seeing an extensive landscape illuminated from a new angle: Pisgah-sights with a promise of fertile ground to be turned over.

II. Simple uses.

2. A point affording an overview or glimpse of a current or future situation. Also in †Pisgah-hill.

ΚΠ

1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 6 Here's a Pisgah-Hill whereon to stand To take a prospect of Wit's holy Land.

1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 133 The top of our philosophic Pisgah, whence the contemplative eye is saluted with the..prospect of a bright and glorious world.

1798 Sound Alarm 22 From the Pisgah of the Directory, this country is pointed out to them as the promised land, which is to furnish the reward of all their toils.

1806 Irish Independence 81 The political Pisgah is before us, and we have only to ascend and gain the promised land!

1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 182 It was a Pisgah, not of prospect, but of retrospect.

1911 J. H. Rose William Pitt & Great War i. 27 He was not a seer mounted on some political Pisgah, but a pioneer struggling through an unexplored jungle.

2001 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 7 475 By ceding the legal high ground the Developer gained a moral Pisgah.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pisgah
释义	Pisgahn. Brit. /ˈpɪzɡə/, U.S. /ˈpɪzɡə/ Origin: From a proper name. Etymon: proper name Pisgah. Etymology: < Pisgah (biblical Hebrew Piṣgāh), literally ‘peak, height, cliff’, the name of the peak of Mount Nebo, from which Moses saw the Promised Land (Deuteronomy 3:27). I. Compounds. 1. attributive. Designating a faint view or glimpse of something unobtainable or distant, esp. in Pisgah sight, Pisgah view.Used with allusion to Deuteronomy 3:27, in which Moses is allowed to view the Promised Land from the peak of Mount Nebo. ΚΠ 1605 W. Symonds (title) Pisgah Evangelica By the Method of the Reuelation, presenting..those Cananites ouer whom..Iesus Christ and his..Church shall triumph.] 1647 T. Fuller Serm. Assurance 16 Their soules do steale a Glymps, Glance, or Pisgah-sight of heaven. 1650 T. Fuller (title) A Pisgah sight of Palestine. ?1735 T. Gutteridge Universal Elegy 3 Many a wrestling Jacob..hath..had a Pisgah View of the heavenly Canaan. 1743 A. Pope Dunciad iii. 120 Giving a glimpse, or Pisgah-sight of the future Fulness of her Glory. 1829 W. Scott Jrnl. 7 Mar. (1946) 32 This extrication of my affairs, though only a Pisgah prospect, occupies my mind. 1865 G. Grote Plato I. xvi. 472 We get only a Pisgah view of our promised adviser. 1902 R. Kipling Traffics & Discov. 6 Dec. 22 I'd had my first Pisgah-sight of the principles..when I was a fourth-class postmaster on a star-route in Arkansas. 1959 C. Singer Short Hist. Sci. Ideas vii. 267 It was this that prevented Bacon from entering into the promised land, of which but a Pisgah view was granted him. 1979 Notes & Queries Feb. 55/1 Sir James Murray planned and led to within a Pisgah sight of completion a larger and more scientifically organized work of linguistic reference than Dr. Johnson could have produced. 1997 19th-cent. Lit. 52 253 There is an exhilarating sense of seeing an extensive landscape illuminated from a new angle: Pisgah-sights with a promise of fertile ground to be turned over. II. Simple uses. 2. A point affording an overview or glimpse of a current or future situation. Also in †Pisgah-hill. ΚΠ 1688 J. Barker Poet. Recreations i. 6 Here's a Pisgah-Hill whereon to stand To take a prospect of Wit's holy Land. 1701 J. Norris Ess. Ideal World I. iii. 133 The top of our philosophic Pisgah, whence the contemplative eye is saluted with the..prospect of a bright and glorious world. 1798 Sound Alarm 22 From the Pisgah of the Directory, this country is pointed out to them as the promised land, which is to furnish the reward of all their toils. 1806 Irish Independence 81 The political Pisgah is before us, and we have only to ascend and gain the promised land! 1863 A. P. Stanley Lect. Jewish Church I. viii. 182 It was a Pisgah, not of prospect, but of retrospect. 1911 J. H. Rose William Pitt & Great War i. 27 He was not a seer mounted on some political Pisgah, but a pioneer struggling through an unexplored jungle. 2001 Jrnl. Royal Anthropol. Inst. 7 475 By ceding the legal high ground the Developer gained a moral Pisgah. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1647
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