单词 | pilate |
释义 | Pilaten. allusively. A person likened in some way to Pontius Pilate; esp. (in early use) a corrupt or lax person; (in later use) a person who evades responsibility. Formerly also: the character of Pontius Pilate in a medieval mystery play.Earliest in †Pilate's voice: a loud magisterial voice of the kind used by Pilate in medieval plays (obsolete). ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > inferior person > [noun] > held in reproach gluttonc1300 jau dewin1340 Pilatec1390 rascal?a1400 swartc1425 hoberdc1450 dogshead1539 ladronea1557 clapperdudgeon1567 soused gurnet1598 jail-bird1603 cocoloch1610 swappes1626 incubee1631 stitchel1659 potwalloper1820 Little Willie1901 the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [noun] > power or range of voice > loudness of voice > loud voice stevena900 Pilate's voicec1390 c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3124 The miller that for dronken was al pale..in Pilates [v.r. pilat] voys he gan to crye. ?c1430 (c1400) J. Wyclif Eng. Wks. (1880) 63 (MED) Þus þes cursed pilatis, not prelatis, ben verray anticristis, procuratours of Sathanas, & traitours of ihu crist & his peple. c1475 (?c1400) Apol. Lollard Doctr. (1842) 56 (MED) Prelats not preching are raþer Pilats þan prelatis, spoilars, not biholdars, herodians of Heroud, not heyris of Crist. 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes ii. f. 345 He heard a certain oratour speakyng out of measure loude and high, & all together in Pilates voice. 1589 A. Dowriche French Hist. 7 The whelpes of Pilates brood to iudgement now should come. 1604 S. Hieron Answer Popish Rime in Wks. (1620) I. 559 Indeed in Rome there diuers be, That beare the name of prelacie: Better we Pilates may them call, Seeking the churches funerall. 1608 W. Shakespeare Richard II iv. i. 230 Yet you Pilates, Haue heere deliuer me to my sowre Crosse, And water can not wash away your sinne. 1658 I. Ambrose Looking unto Jesus (1723) I. iv. ii. §5 347/1 What are you but as so many Pilates? 1709 W. Reeves in tr. Justin Martyr et al. Apol. II. 206 Then were different Parties, different Hereticks united, and the Pilates and Herods made Friends together for a while. 1766 W. Harris Hist. & Antiq. City of Dublin vii. 148 The taylors were to find Pilate with his fellowship, and his wife cloathed accordingly. 1834 ‘J. Downing’ Life A. Jackson 29 Pontius Pilates who shave notes and receive niggurs in pawn. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 29 Oct. 7/2 Pontius Pilates, who washed their hands of what might happen to France provided they could continue to exploit her. 1930 Times 28 Aug. 11/5 We are all Pilates at heart. 1996 F. De Bruyn Lit. Genres E. Burke iv. 191 Other accounts stigmatized the king's persecutors as latter-day Pharisees and Pilates. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1390 |
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