单词 | pisgah view |
释义 | > as lemmasPisgah view 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. < as lemmas |
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