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单词 saturnist
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Saturnistn.

Brit. /ˈsatənɪst/, U.S. /ˈsædərnəst/
Forms: 1500s–1600s Saturniste, 1500s– Saturnist. Also with lower-case initial.
Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: Saturn n., -ist suffix.
Etymology: < Saturn n. + -ist suffix.
Now rare.
A person born under the (supposed) influence of the planet Saturn; a person having the qualities attributed to such a birth, esp. gloominess or moroseness; a saturnine person.
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the mind > emotion > suffering > dejection > melancholy > [noun] > saturnine quality > person
Saturnian1546
Saturnist1546
saturnine1558
saturnal1605
1546 tr. A. P. Gasser Prognostication sig. d v The sayd Saturnistes shalbe gredy and desirefull of the ryches that ryche persons haue.
1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie i. ii. sig. C What icye Saturnist, what northerne pate But such grosse lewdnes would exasperate?
1609 J. Davies Humours Heau'n on Earth l. 17 Let leane-fac'd leaden-spirited Saturnists..Prate what they list.
1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 507 Grum-sirs hate Jovialists; they the sad, The active Soule a Saturnist.
1873 Harper's Mag. July 193/1 The mode of embalming has given many of the monks a decidedly queer and waggish look. They were saturnists in life, and they are involuntary jesters in death.
1923 Texas Rev. July 319 After Venus has given an astrological description of Saturn and has remarked upon the marvelous anatomy of Saturnists, she proceeds to [etc.].
1985 Formations Winter 55/1 Melancholic Saturnists (we know from Dürer up to Baudelaire and Verlaine how strongly this symbolism has come to be identified with a certain type of artist) are threatened by the hungry whirlpool of nothingness which wants to suck them in.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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