| 单词 | adamant stone |
| 释义 | > as lemmasadamant stone adamant stone n. now archaic or historical (a) = sense A. 2a; (b) = sense A. 1.After the early 17th cent., usually with reference or allusion to Zechariah 7:12 (see quot. 1535 and cf. quot. c1384 at sense A. 1a). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > types of mineral > other miscellaneous minerals > [noun] adamanteOE adamantinec1225 adamant stonea1387 chrysocoll1590 chrysocolla1600 aloe1601 Scythian stone1608 diaspore1802 sideroclepte1814 allagite1823 spherulite1823 aluminide1826 rhodalite1836 aikinite1843 alvite1855 xanthitane1856 belonite1865 aenigmatite1868 opacite1875 viridite1879 neocyanite1882 sideronatrite1882 wittite1924 niggliite1936 anthonyite1963 perryite1965 KREEP1971 a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 221 (MED) Adamant stones [L. lapides magnetes] þat were in þe fot and in þe arches aboute drowe euen þe yren eueriche to his side. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde ii. vii. sig. f3 In ynde groweth the Admont stone... She by her nature draweth to her yron. a1500 in R. L. Greene Early Eng. Carols (1935) 273 (MED) An adamant stone, it is not frangebyll With nothyng but with mylke of a gett. 1521 R. Whittington Grammatices Primæ Partes (rev. ed.) I. sig. Bv Lapis ferrum attrahens. anglice. an adamound stone. vt hic magnes/etis. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Zach. vii. 12 They made their hertes as an Adamant stone [1611 King James an adamant stone; 1970 New Eng. hearts were adamant]. 1641 G. Abbot Vindiciæ Sabbathi 22 Now as concerning faith, wee ought to bee invincible and more hard if it might bee then the Adamant stone. 1751 Voy. Shetland, Orkneys, & Western Isles Scotl. 46 In Front of the Rock a Vein of Adamant Stone. 1897 A. M. Stuart in B. A. M. Schapiro Christian Obligations to Jews 122 Although they have made their heart like an adamant stone, the promise remains sure that their heart of stone shall be taken away, and a new heart shall be given unto them. 1951 Imago Mundi 8 3 Aristotle said..the diamond takes iron away from the lodestone. Hence the idea that the adamant stone had magnetic virtue. 1999 K. McVey in G. W. Bowersock et al. Late Antiq. 754/1 Explicit Christological interpretations of the lion, pelican, and adamant stone, among others. < as lemmas |
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