单词 | portic |
释义 | † porticn. Obsolete (rare in later use). 1. Architecture. A portico, a porch.In quot. c1175: a cell. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > porches, balconies, etc. > [noun] > porch porticeOE porchc1300 back porch1535 prothyrum1600 propylaeum1637 pentastich1656 propylon1830 ramada1869 storm-porch1879 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) ii. iii. 106 Heora lichoman syndon in þære circan seolfre gesette, forðon in þone forecwedenan portic [L. porticus] ma ne meahte. OE (Northumbrian) Lindisf. Gospels: John x. 23 Ambulabat iesus in templo in porticu salomonis : geeade se hælend in temple in portic salamones. OE West Saxon Gospels: John (Corpus Cambr.) v. 2 On gerusalem ys an mere se is genemned on ebreisc betzaida; se mere hæfð fif porticas. c1175 (?OE) Writ of Brother Edwin (Sawyer 1428) in S. Miller Charters of New Minster, Winchester (2001) 164 Ic kyþe [þe] laford þæt nu for þreon gearan ic læig innan minan portice anbuton nontid & me atewde þær þe halga Cuthbert openlice. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 18 It hath on the outside a Portic round it... Each side of the Portick is of Fourteen foot long. 1682 G. Wheler Journey into Greece i. 76 A fine Mosque; whose Portick is supported by Red Marble Pillars. 1697 J. Evelyn Disc. Medals iii. 49 In them we behold with Admiration, their stupendious Amphitheatres, Theatres, Forums, Thermæ, Xysti, Portics, Naumachiæ, Hippodroms, Mausolea, and Sepulchres. 2. Ancient Greek Philosophy. Any of the Stoic philosophers who met in the colonnade in the agora of ancient Athens; (also) the school of Stoic philosophy. Cf. porch n. 2, and portico n. 1a. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > philosophy > ancient Greek philosophy > post-Socratic philosophy > [noun] > Stoicism > Stoic Stoicianc1374 stoicc1384 portic1630 Zenonian1656 1630 F. Quarles Divine Poems 382 Thou dry-brayn'd Portick, whose ahenian brest, (Transcending passion) never was opprest With griefe. 1709 in J. Dryden et al. tr. Ovid Art of Love i. (Notes) 60 Let us figure to our selves, that the Poet is not only a Gallant of the Court of Augustus, but a Philosopher of the Portick and Lyceum. a1751 Visct. Bolingbroke Lett. Study Hist. (1752) II. 277 The firmest hero of the Portic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.eOE |
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