| 单词 | raw-devouring |
| 释义 | > as lemmasraw-devouring raw-devouring adj. [in quot. 1848 after ancient Greek ὠμηστής eating raw flesh; in quot. 1922 after ancient Greek ὠμοσῖτος (of the Sphinx) eating men raw] rare that eats raw flesh. ΚΠ 1848 T. A. Buckley tr. Homer Iliad (1851) xxii. 404 The raw-devouring dogs [Gk. κύνες..ὠμησταὶ] whom I have nourished in my palaces. 1893 S. O'Grady Bog of Stars & Other Stories ix. 148 Genial Homer would have pictured MacDermot and Brian Ogue as two raw-devouring lions beaten off from the cattle fold, but retreating slowly,..not being at all terrified. 1922 H. W. Smyth tr. Æschylus Seven against Thebes in Aeschylus (1956) I. 367 He kept ever swinging to and fro our city's shame, the raw-devouring Sphinx [Gk. Σϕίγγ᾽ ὠμοσῖτον], a burnished and embossed figure, cunningly riveted thereon. 1974 D. Young tr. Aeschylus Agamemnon in Oresteia 27 Jumping the tower, a raw-devouring lion licked up his fill of princely Trojan blood. < as lemmas |
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