单词 | quixote |
释义 | Quixoten.adj. A. n. A person resembling Don Quixote, esp. one who is inspired by chivalrous but unrealistic ideals; a person characterized by romantic vision or naive idealism. See also Don Quixote n. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [noun] > quixotic sentiments > person inspired by Quixote1644 Don Quixote1870 1644 J. Cleveland Char. London Diurnall 3 The Quixotes of this Age fight with the Wind-mills of their owne Heads. 1648 Mercurius Pragmaticus No. 1. sig. A2 The Romance's and Gazetta's of the famous Victories and Exploits of the godly Quixots. 1741 S. Duck Every Man in his Own Way 15 No Royal Quixotes lead their martial pow'rs To fight for Lady Faith on Foreign Shores. 1752 C. Lennox (title) The female Quixote: or, The adventures of Arabella. 1786 J. Bonnycastle Introd. Astron. 17 There are Quixotes and pedants in every profession. 1811 T. Jefferson Writings (1830) IV. 164 What these Quixottes are clamoring for. 1896 Spectator 7 Mar. 337/1 Where the more sober thinker fails, the Quixote is often of service. 1929 C. Day Lewis Transitional Poem i. 16 The intellectual Quixotes of the age Prattling of abstract art. 1970 Charleston (W. Va.) Gaz. 9 Dec. 8/1 A distinguished line of Quixotes who have sought to change things in the Senate. 2000 Yearbk. Eng. Stud. 30 75 When the transgressions are of mind and not body, the heroine may be characterized as a female quixote. = quixotic adj. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > [adjective] errantical1612 errantic1654 quixotical1657 Quixote1708 quixotish1743 quixotic1777 errant1822 1708 J. Ozell tr. N. Boileau-Despréaux Lutrin iv. 70 Parisian walls shall prove a weak Defence for Quixot Kings. 1757 Lady M. W. Montagu Let. 7 July (1967) III. 132 The Quixote Reputation of redressing wrongs. 1782 H. Walpole Let. 14 Feb. in Lett. (1846) VI. 160 My diet-drink is not all of so Quixote a disposition. 1821 J. Bentham Elements Art of Packing 198 Our Quixote Sheriff. Derivatives ˈQuixote-like adj. ΚΠ 1659 R. Heath Paradox. Assertions 24 My discourse may seem Quixot-like, to overthrow Cities, depopulate Countries, and threaten all their ruines. 1769 Another Estimate Manners & Princ. Present Times 90 That passion for romantic Love, and Quixote-like adventure, so discoverable among young men and women. 1860 M. Collins Summer Songs 11 Fresh he comes..From all the Quixote-like Bohemian life which painters know. 1973 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 53 362 Latin Americans see in this novel a kind of Quixote-like spirit. 2001 N. Birnbaum After Progress 237 Its Quixote-like attack on a monstrous inflation totally undiscernible in the economic statistics. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022). † Quixotev. Obsolete. intransitive. To behave like Don Quixote; to act in a quixotic manner. Also transitive with it. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > perception or cognition > faculty of imagination > faculty of conceiving ideals > tendency towards romance > romantic conduct > act quixotically [verb (intransitive)] Quixote1702 quixotize1800 1702 J. Vanbrugh False Friend v. i. 49 When you..are upon your rantipole adventures, you shall Quixot it by your self for Lopez. 1746 Congratulatory Let. to Cardinal Tencin 2 After having sufficiently Quixoted it in Scotland..your Catholic Quixote..advanced with them into England. 1831 Spirit of Times (N.Y.) 10 Dec. 3/2 While we will not Quixote for wild adventures..we will nevertheless hunt after subjects pleasing to our friends. 1999 Toronto Star (Nexis) 4 Apr. At Rouge Hills, they out-quixoted Don Quixote by charging full-tilt into the valley..and found one old woman and a bushel of apples.] Derivatives Quixoting n. ΚΠ 1803 J. Porter Thaddeus of Warsaw (1826) I. vi. 131 I will not be the first to tell him of our quixoting. 1869 G. Haven National Serm. 451 It was not for us to go a Quixoting over the world rescuing imaginary Dulcineas from imaginary robbers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.adj.1644v.1702 |
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