| 单词 | sabbatical river |
| 释义 | > as lemmasSabbatical river b. Sabbatical river: an imaginary river celebrated in Jewish legend, which was said to observe the Sabbath. Similarly Sabbatical pool: see quot. 1649.The legend of the ‘sabbatical river’ existed in two discrepant forms: cf. quots. 1671 (after Josephus) and 1849. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > rivers and streams > types of river > [noun] > specific headwater1535 Sabbatical river1613 salt river1659 tide-river1739 river pirate1743 salmon river1753 artery1787 warp-river1799 feeder1825 lost river1843 banker1848 tidal river1877 pirate1889 the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > other types weelc897 lowa1200 sougha1300 plungec1450 Sabbatical pool1613 slough1714 tinaja1835 rock pool1836 pokelogan1848 salmon pool1866 plunge pool1870 Strandbad1939 solar pool1960 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 519 This was the issue of their Pilgrimage to the Sabbaticall streame, which they supposed to finde in this Persian Gulfe. 1649 Bp. J. Taylor Great Exemplar iii. xiv. 51 The sabbaticall pool in Judea, which was dry six dayes, but gushed out in a full stream upon the sabbath. 1671 E. Stillingfleet Serm. (1673) viii. 151 The famous Sabbatical River..which for 6. days bear's all before it..: the admirable nature of that River is, that it keeps the Sabbath and rests all that day. 1849 H. W. Longfellow Kavanagh xi. (1857) 221 And must my life, then, be always like the Sabbatical river of the Jews, flowing in full stream only on the seventh day? < as lemmas |
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