单词 | riteless |
释义 | ritelessadj. Without rites or ceremony; unaccompanied by rites. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > [adjective] > devoid of riteless?1611 ritualless1897 the world > action or operation > behaviour > bad behaviour > discourtesy > [adjective] > unceremonious riteless?1611 unceremonious1825 ?1611 G. Chapman tr. Homer Iliads xxiv. 498 Giue me no seate..when yet vnransomed Hector lies ritelesse [Gk. ἀκηδής] in thy tents. 1838 E. Cook Homes of Dead x. 3 Yet say, are the riteless graves of those Unholy or unblest? 1892 Academy 31 Dec. 601/2 He has nothing to say of the ode on the riteless burial of Adrienne Lecouvreur. 1910 H. Ellis Stud. Psychol. Sex VI. xi. 437 George Chapman..represents the riteless marriage of his hero and heroine. 1979 Ann. Rev. Anthropol. 8 406 It fails to explain the Aboriginal context in which most myths are riteless and most rites are mythless. 2001 K. Stone Queer Comm. & Hebrew Bible 136 A sharp division of female and male spheres that young boys must negotiate in their riteless passage from boyhood to manhood. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.?1611 |
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