单词 | pole arctic |
释义 | † pole arcticn. Obsolete. The Pole Star. Also occasionally: the North Pole. Cf. Arctic Pole n. 1. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > star > kind of star > giant > [noun] > supergiant > Pole star North Stara1387 polea1398 shipman-star1398 pole arcticc1400 tramontanec1400 transmontane starc1400 pommel1503 sail-star?c1510 Pole Star1555 star?1555 Arctic Pole1565 polar star1578 northern star1590 cynosure1596 Polaris1675 the world > the universe > celestial sphere > [noun] > pole > north pole north polea1398 Arctic Pole1565 pole arctic1632 c1400 ( G. Chaucer Treat. Astrolabe (Cambr. Dd.3.53) (1872) ii. §22. 31 The heyhte of owre pool Artik fro owre north Orisonte. J. Metham Amoryus & Cleopes (1916) 308 The poole artyk and the poole antartyk. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vi. i. 34 Dedalus, the wrycht,..To aventur hym self heich in the sky,..Towart the frosty poil artik he flaw. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour 6321 in Wks. (1931) I. 385 I se Polartike in the North appeir. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 90 Was..seine, betueine Pol artik and the Pleiades..a maruellous gret Comet. 1632 J. Story tr. Short Surv. Sweden 2 Lying betwixt the arctick circle, and the pole arctick. a1640 J. Fletcher et al. Faire Maide of Inne iii. i, in F. Beaumont & J. Fletcher Comedies & Trag. (1647) 37 A bawdie dittie elevated for the Pole Artick of a Ladies chamber, in that fyle stands another of your inamoratoes. 1665 J. Mayne On our Late Sea-fight 8 Whose new Dominions now will reach as farre As the Pole-artick, and Ant-artick starre. 1691 J. Dryden in Hist. Adolphus 76 From Tropick, e'en to Pole Artick. 1708 T. White Almanack (title page) Calculated for the Meridian of Todington in Bedfordshire, where the Pole Artick is elevated above the Horizon 52 Degrees and 8 Minutes. 1750 W. Ellis Mod. Husbandman IV. i. 1 Now Phoebus ascends to the utmost limits of the Zodiac towards the Pole Arctic. 1781 T. Vaughan Fashionable Follies I. xlv. 132 From pole arctic to pole antarctic, I have seen nothing comparable to you. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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