单词 | polypus-like |
释义 | > as lemmasˈpolypus-ˌlike ˈpolypus-ˌlike adj. and adv. ΚΠ 1649 Modest Narr. Intelligence No. 19 151 Such is the itch of those men, after greatness, self-interests popular glory and applause, as puts them upon very desperate and Polypus-like practises. 1746 J. Taylor in W. Lewis Med. Ess. & Observ. (Philos. Soc. Edinb.) II. 141 He brought up two polypus-like substances. 1754 P. Hiffernan Tuner 6 For Polypus-like bruise, hack, mutilate, turn Inside out, do what you will with Him, the Reptile still crawls in putrid, stagnating Matter. 1865 E. B. Pusey in H. P. Liddon et al. Life E. B. Pusey (1897) IV. iii. 80 We cannot divide Holy Scripture or Christianity, polypus-like, so that one part might be cut off, and the rest remain in the same life as before. 1890 Atlantic Monthly Aug. 240/2 The next time you see a tree waving in the wind, recollect that it is the tail of a great underground, many-armed, polypus-like creature. 1948 T. Reik Listening with Third Ear (1956) xxxviii. 443 An analyst ought to have learned in the course of his practice that his own unconscious drags all kinds of things from the darkness with a thousand polypus-like arms. < as lemmas |
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