单词 | samaritan |
释义 | Samaritann.adj. A. n. a. A native or inhabitant of Samaria, a district of Palestine named from its chief city, anciently the capital of the kingdom of Israel; esp. one who adheres to the religious system which had its origin in Samaria. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Israel or Palestine > [noun] > parts of Samaritanc1000 Nazareea1425 Nazarene?c1425 abstainer1535 Nazarite1535 Hierosolymitan1538 Hierosolymitea1557 Judaean1596 Galilean1611 Tel Avivian1939 West Banker1957 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > other non-Christian sects > Samaritanism > [noun] > person Samaritanc1000 society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Samaritanism > [noun] > person Samaritan?c1510 c1000 West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) x. 5 Ne ga ge innan samaritana ceastre. 1377 W. Langland Piers Plowman B. xvii. 48 Þanne seye we a samaritan sittende on a mule. ?c1510 tr. Newe Landes & People founde by Kynge of Portyngale sig. C.iiiv There be some crystened that in the holy land is namyd Samerytanes. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Bp. Eusebius in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. iv. xxi. 70 Sundry sectes among the children of Israell..the Samaritans: the Sadduces: the Pharises. 1799 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 1 439 The Samaritans who, in a life of solitude and retirement, incessantly contemplating the deity, abstained from the use of flesh. 1841 Penny Cycl. XX. 376/1 Samaritans are still found in their old country, especially at Nablous, near Sichem, and also in Egypt. 1957 F. L. Cross Oxf. Dict. Christian Church 1211/1 The Samaritan Pentateuch, a slightly divergent form of the Pentateuch in Hebrew, current since pre-Christian times among the Samaritans. It is the only part of the OT accepted by the Samaritans. 1965 M. Spark Mandelbaum Gate iv. 91 Those Israelites, Samaritans, those boys. 1977 Sci. Amer. Jan. 100/1 Although the kingdom of Samaria vanished long ago, the Samaritans still survive today as perhaps the smallest ethnic minority in the world. b. figurative (frequently in full, good Samaritan) with reference to the ‘good Samaritan’ in Luke x. 33; also transferred, a kind and helpful person; hence (nonce-wds.) good Samaritanism, good Samaritanship. Samaritan's balsam n. ‘a mixture of wine and oil, formerly used in treating wounds’ ( Cent. Dict. 1891). Samaritan hospital n. a hospital specially devoted to the sick poor. Samaritan schools n. ‘common name in the Unites States for ambulance classes’ ( New Sydenham Soc. Lexicon 1897). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > places for the sick or injured > [noun] > hospital or infirmary > hospital for the poor Samaritan hospital1640 the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > [noun] > person well-willing1340 good doerc1400 well-doerc1400 sootc1430 well-willer1443 benefeterc1449 benevoler?1488 benefactor1532 good-willera1541 well-wisher?1576 ministering angel1592 well-meaner1597 angel1598 obliger1634 Samaritan1640 well-woulder1643 obligator1798 benevolist1825 living doll1961 the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > balsam > specific opobalsamuma1398 opobalsam1526 Samaritan's balsam1640 Peruvian balsam1666 balsam of Tolu1671 tolu balsam1671 true balsam1671 balsam of saturn1694 balm of Mecca1717 balsam of Mecca1721 friar's balsam1753 Canada balsam1754 balsam of Peru1771 Riga balsam1793 balsam of Acouchi1830 solid balsam1836 Sonsonate1852 Balm of Gilead- 1640 N. Rogers (title) The good Samaritan, or an exposition on that parable, Luke x. ver. xxx–xxxviii. 1644 (title) The compassionate Samaritane: Vnbinding the Conscience, and powring oyle into the wounds which have beene made upon the Separation. 1649 P. Chamberlen (title) The Poore Mans Advocate, or, Englands Samaritan. 1823 W. Scott Quentin Durward I. ii. 25 The bonny Scot had already accosted the younger Samaritan. 1840 J. Ruskin Let. 4 July in Lett. to College Friend (1894) 11 You have sacrificed half a Good Samaritanship to insult your friends with letters of brown paper. 1846 Ld. Ashburton in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) III. xxiv. 77 I wish some good Samaritan of a Conservative with sufficient authority could heal the feuds among our friends. 1871 J. R. Lowell My Study Windows 44 It is seldom that debtors or good Samaritans waylay people under gas lamps in order to force money upon them. 1887 H. Caine Deemster III. xxxix. 182 The Samaritans laughed and bade them not to think of price or money until their captain should return. 1898 ‘A. Hope’ Rupert of Hentzau iii. 42 Good Samaritans but not men of war, they returned to where I lay senseless on the ground. 1919 M. Beer Hist. Brit. Socialism I. i. v. 74 The new order would act as a good Samaritan and pour oil and wine into the wounds of the nation. 1923 Virginia Law Rev. Apr. 423 It is unreasonable that the priest and the Levite should go free while the good Samaritan should be forced to undergo the ordeal and expense of a trial. 1925 A. Huxley Those Barren Leaves ii. vi. 156 On the faces of all my good Samaritans I noticed an expression of childlike earnestness. 1930 H. Redwood God in Slums 14 A co-opted partner in every kind of Good Samaritanism. 1950 T. S. Eliot Cocktail Party i. ii. 49 Don't you realise how lucky you are To have two Good Samaritans? a1953 E. O'Neill Touch of Poet (1957) i. 9 Sure, the good Samaritan was a crool haythen beside you. 1963 Reader's Digest May 89/1 The best known and most effective curb of the malpractice-suit racket is California's so-called Good Samaritan law. 1977 Times of Zambia 7 Sept. 1/6 Shawa started as a Good Samaritan, trying to separate a fight in which Mr Sichinga was involved. c. the Samaritans, an organization founded in London in 1953 that offers counselling by telephone to those in distress or contemplating suicide; hence as singular, a member of this organization. Also (in singular) attributive. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > voluntary counselling organization the Samaritans1960 society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [adjective] > voluntary counselling organization the Samaritans1960 society > society and the community > social attitudes > philanthropy > [noun] > voluntary counselling organization > member of the Samaritans1960 befriender1965 1953 Church Times 27 Nov. 854/5 The Rev. Chad Varah..intends to open a ‘Good Samaritan’ centre—on the telephone.] 1960 Times 29 Nov. 6/6 The vast majority of those who came to the Samaritans were not mentally ill... The Samaritans had helped people of all types, from a duke to a dustman. 1967 Guardian 8 June 3/5 The most common reasons for people calling the Telephone Samaritans for help in the Greater Manchester area..were depression, anxiety, and mental illness. 1969 Listener 10 Apr. 508/1 The girl..works for Oxfam and wants to be a Samaritan. 1973 J. Seabrook Loneliness 115 I'd break down, I'd be all trembling. I used to ring the Samaritans. I don't know what I'd have done without the man who was my counsellor. 1977 Hongkong Standard 14 Apr. 13/3 (advt.) Discouraged/Depressed? Dial the Samaritans, day or night. 1978 M. Dickens Open Bk. xxi. 186 The Samaritans is a world-wide fellowship of men and women of all ages, creeds and races, dedicated to befriending people who are desperate enough to want to kill themselves. 1978 M. Dickens Open Bk. xxi. 186 I went to the Samaritan centre in London to talk about the isolated and lonely people who I knew must be among their callers. B. adj. a. Of or pertaining to Samaria or the Samaritans; used by the Samaritans. Also in combinations, as (sense A. b) Samaritan-like adj. Samaritan Pentateuch: a recension of the Hebrew Pentateuch used by the Samaritans; the manuscripts are written in ‘Samaritan’ (i.e. archaic Hebrew) characters. ΘΚΠ the world > people > nations > native or inhabitant of Near East, Middle East, or Asia Minor > native or inhabitant of Israel or Palestine > [adjective] > parts of Nazarenec1175 Samaritanc1384 Samaritanish1532 Galilean1638 Nazarean1717 Hierosolymitan1721 Hierosolymite1863 c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Luke x. 33 Forsoth sum man Samaritan, makynge iourney, cam bisydis the weye. 1624 T. Davies Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. lxix. 311 The five Books of Moses in the Samaritan Character. 1625 H. Bourgchier Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. lxxix. 321 I also told him of your Samaritan Pentateuch. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 21 As little doe wee esteem your Samaritan trumpery, of which people Christ himselfe testifies, Yee worship you know not what. 1858 G. F. Nicholls (title) A grammar of the Samaritan language. 1889 Harper's Mag. Sept. 582/1 The greatest of the Samaritan festivals, the Passover, is still celebrated on the top of Gerizim. 1973 E.-J. Bahr Nice Neighbourhood vi. 64 We callously discussed how Samaritan-like we'd been, having John over for dinner. b. absol. quasi-n. in various contextual uses, e.g. the Aramaic dialect formerly spoken in Samaria; the character in which this is written; the Samaritan text of the Hebrew Pentateuch. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [adjective] > Pentateuch Samaritan1627 Pentateuchal1841 the mind > language > languages of the world > Afro-Asiatic > [noun] > Semitic > Aramaic Chaldeish?c1510 Chaldee1602 Chaldic1623 Chaldean1690 Aramaic1882 Samaritan1886 Palmyrene1890 Nabatean1911 1627 J. Ussher Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cxxii. 385 In the numbering of the Years of these Fathers..there is not the like consent betwixt the LXX, and the Samaritan, as was before. 1653 A. Boate Let. in R. Parr Life J. Usher (1686) Coll. cclxxv. 588 The Persian Pentateuch..being translated not out of the Original, but out of the Chalde and the Hebrew Samaritan. 1770 P. Luckombe Conc. Hist. Printing 159 Pica Samaritan. 1787 Smith's Printer's Gram. (new ed.) 300 Long Primer Samaritan. 1797 J. Pratt Prospectus New Polyglott Bible 8 Printing the Samaritan and Syriac in a character familiar to the Hebrew scholar. 1886 Encycl. Brit. XXI. 648/2 The false notion that Samaritan is a mixture of Hebrew and Aramaic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1909; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.adj.c1000 |
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