单词 | scryer |
释义 | scryern. One who ‘scries’; a crystal-gazer. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > crystal-gazing > [noun] > one who practices scryer1549 seer1583 crystal seer1849 crystal gazer1889 1549 in J. G. Nichols Narr. Reformation (1859) 334 Thomas Malfrey..and a woman..are scryers of the glasse. 1555 R. Eden tr. V. Biringucci Pyrotechnia in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 342 The scrier which decerneth the veines of the myne, goth before the workemen. 1584 J. Dee Jrnl. in True & Faithful Relation Spirits (1659) i. 91 He..willed me to use John my Boy as my Skryer. 1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 244 Kelley was several times..false to Dee, yet he mostly performed the office of Skryer. 1889 Proc. Soc. Psychical Res. 1888–9 5 495 Dee's..scryer or seer, Kelly. 1900 Edinb. Rev. Jan. 36 The profession of skryer, crystal-gazer, or speculator. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1549 |
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