单词 | saturnist |
释义 | Saturnistn. 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. ΘΚΠ 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). < n.1546 |
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