单词 | pocalypse |
释义 | 'pocalypsen. Now chiefly colloquial. = apocalypse n.In quot. c1400: a vision, a hallucination. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Revelations > [noun] apocalypseOE 'pocalypseOE book of privities?c1225 Book of sights1340 revelationc1384 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > Second Coming > [noun] > apocalypse world's endeOE dayOE doomsdayc975 world-endOE 'pocalypseOE last dayc1275 judgementa1325 assize1340 Great Dayc1350 accounta1400 day of retributiona1400 latter day1533 Judgement Day1544 audit1548 after-reckoning1567 revelation-day1654 Fifth monarchy1655 long account1665 account day1671 kingdom come1858 the last (also final, great) round-up1879 eschaton1935 OE St. Michael (Corpus Cambr.) in H. L. C. Tristram Vier Altenglische Predigten aus der Heterodoxen Trad. (Ph.D. diss., Freiburg) (1970) 152 Swa hit sagað her on pocalipsis þære bec. OE Lapidary 13 Her onginþ embe twelf derwyrðan stanas & gimmas þe we leornudan in pocalipsis þære bec. c1250 in Englische Studien (1935) 70 232 (MED) Asse me hit fint in þe pokalips of þe louer sein Johon. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. xiii. 90 [The glutton] hath dronken so depe, he wil deuyne sone And preuen it by her pocalips [c1400 C text apocalips]..Þat neither bacoun ne braune..Is noither fisshe [ne] flesshe. c1440 Sir Degrevant (Thornton) (1949) 1453 (MED) Þer men myght..Se..þe Pokalypps of John, Paulis Pistils ylkone..Paynted full righte. 1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton sig. b ijv Saynt Johan sayth in the pocalyps who shal vaynquysshe the world, he that shal ete in paradyse of the fruyte of lyfe. 1652 in T. Fuller Abel Redevivus 510 The locupletation of the pocalypse. 1656 R. Flecknoe Diarium 52 O'th'Pocalyps he knew each letter, And could expound it no man better. 1871 Harper's Mag. June 66/2 I used to think the Pope was the Beast of the 'Pocalypse. 1955 J. M. Cohen tr. F. Rabelais Hist. Gargantua & Pantagruel iv. xvi. 487 You speak like St John of the 'Pocalypse. 2004 goldman goldtoe.net 24 Nov. (blog, accessed 5 Oct. 2005) Presumably, they're planning on being raptured to Heaven when the 'pocalypse starts cooking. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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