单词 | se ipse |
释义 | se ipseadj.pron. Of a portrait: done by oneself; that is a self-portrait. Obsolete. rare.In quot. 1831 as part of an extended metaphor. ΚΠ 1831 B. Waterhouse Ess. on Junius xiii. 426 During nearly forty years I have scanned them all, after my first suspicion that the celebrated eulogy on Lord Chatham in the fifty-fourth letter of Junius was a seipse portrait. B. pron. literary. Himself; used for emphasis in apposition to a preceding noun or noun phrase. Cf. per se adv. Now rare. ΚΠ 1841 J. Smythe in Heads of People II. 138 Pardon this digression, gentle reader: we will now revert to the Poor Curate, se ipse. 1853 W. Jerdan Autobiogr. IV. xiii. 238 It was Wordsworth se ipse... The ideal was complete. 1943 G. Cope Democracy within Church 8 The then Archbishop of Canterbury did not hesitate to rebuke his sovereign..and so demonstrated that the clerical oath of allegiance is not to the monarch se ipse. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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