单词 | re-embodied |
释义 | re-embodiedadj. That has been re-embodied (in various senses of the verb); esp. restored to bodily form; reincarnated. ΚΠ 1701 M. Sylvester in S. Cox Peace End of Upright Pref. p. ii Surely Heaven, as a Place, can no way be defective in its Accommodations to the Benefit and Pleasure of Re-embodied Spirits. 1803 Ann. Reg. 1802 (Otridge ed.) App. Chron. 579 The defraying the expenses of the re-embodied militia, from August 3, 1801 to December 24, 1801, inclusive. 1840 E. Elliott Poet. Wks. 68/1 Thou, who shalt see the grave untenanted, And commune with the re-embodied soul! Tell me thy secrets. 1896 Jrnl. Amer. Folklore 9 200 They are quite positive that the reëmbodied spirits of Yogan..are already returned in the shape of two soldiers of the Twenty-first Regiment. 1924 W. B. Selbie Psychol. Relig. 271 In Indo-European folk-lore, dogs, wolves, and hares represent such re-embodied spirits. 1981 J. Gooch Prospect of War iv. 85 Clarke found himself increasingly opposed to what he viewed as a re-embodied militia welded to the regular army as a draft-producing machine. 2007 New Rev. (Nexis) 28 Oct. (Feature) 20 During this period, a corpse may be an unquiet strigoi, moving in its grave and travelling at night in a not quite re-embodied form, to feed off the blood of the living. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1701 |
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