单词 | black art |
释义 | black artn. 1. a. The art of performing supernatural or magical acts; magic, necromancy; witchcraft. Also in plural. Cf. black magic n. at black adj. and n. Compounds 1e(a).Sometimes said to be made possible by communicating with the devil, or with the spirits of the dead. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > [noun] > involving demons or black magic devilshineOE artemagea1393 art magica1393 devilry1487 goety1569 black art1572 black magic1590 diabolism1614 demonomancy1652 goetic1727 diablerie1751 demonomagy1765 demonurgy1797 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes i. x. 47 Pope Gregorie the seuenth..was thoroughly seene in the blacke arte of Negromancie [L. Ostendit Pontificem illum..magicarum artium peritissimum fuisse]. a1593 C. Marlowe Tragicall Hist. Faustus (1604) sig. D4 I haue heard strange report of thy knowledge in the blacke Arte. 1597 King James VI & I Daemonologie To Rdr. f. 5 If he woulde knowe what are the particuler rites, & curiosities of these black arts (which is both vnnecessarie and perilous,) he will finde it in the fourth book of Cornelivs Agrippa, and in Wiervs. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Nigromance, nigromancie, coniuring, the blacke Art. 1674 R. Godfrey Var. Injuries in Physick 178 He useth Astrology, (which the Vulgar call the Black Art). 1706 T. Baker Hampstead Heath i. 10 Had I stay'd there one Twelve Month longer I had study'd the Black Art. 1775 R. B. Sheridan Rivals i. ii I'd as soon have them taught the black art as their alphabet! 1800 Brown's New Dict. Bible I. 446/1 The Ephesians were anciently noted for sorcery, magic, astrology, and the rest of the black arts. 1874 E. P. Roe Opening Chestnut Burr ix. 106 When and where have you had experience in the black art? 1937 ‘J. Digges’ Cape Cod Pilot ix. 193 Goody was only fifteen, and no more knowful of the black arts than a babe in swaddlecloth. 2005 J. M. Corry Perceptions of Magic iii. 118 Support of Villena's studies as legitimate science rather than heterodox practice of the black arts. b. In extended use: a technique, discipline, practice, etc., which is considered mysterious, sinister, or duplicitous. Frequently with of. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > secrecy, concealment > a profound secret, mystery > [noun] > secret doctrine or art cabbalisma1592 black art1610 cabalie1652 Cabbala1665 esoterics1711 dark art1748 esotery1763 masonry1841 esotericac1929 1610 T. Morton Encounter against M. Parsons To Christian Rdr. sig. A2 A freeing of the holy Scriptures, the Oracles of truth, from that prophanation, which he draweth vpon them, by pretending that they patronize this blacke art [sc. Mentall Equiuocation]. 1644 J. Pell Let. in J. Pell Corr. with C. Cavendish (2005) 358 Superstitious algebra and that blacke art of geometry. 1711 J. Puckle Club 38 The Black Art of Selling Bear-Skins. 1847 A. Strickland Lives Queens of Eng. XI. vi. 47 Lord Danby, who first invented the black art of swaying the English senate by personal bribes from government. 1892 J. Schoenhof Econ. of High Wages ii. viii. 274 It will be seen that..in this black art a pound of thrown silk (worth $5, to take a round figure) can be made to take the place of two pounds ($10). 1917 Proc. Acad. Polit. Sci. City N.Y. 7 186 I am displeased with my own profession at the way in which they..inject into a situation of such gravity as this all their little black arts of irrelevancy and substitution and obstruction. 1962 Hays (Kansas) Daily News 11 Jan. 3/1 Dictators..rewrite history as they please. Stalin, Khrushchev, Hitler and Mussolini have been prime practitioners of this black art in our time. 2008 Sunday Herald (Glasgow) (Nexis) 5 Oct. 33 He tried on many occasions to give up his addiction to the black arts of spin after he entered government. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > taking > stealing or theft > burglary > [noun] > lock-picking or -forcing black art1591 sneck-drawing1786 key working1901 loiding1968 1591 R. Greene Second Pt. Conny-catching Ep. Ded. f. 4 I can set downe the subtiltie of the blacke Art, which is picking of lockes. 1608 T. Dekker Belman of London sig. F4v This Blacke Art..is called in English Picking of Lockes. 1785 F. Grose Classical Dict. Vulgar Tongue Black art, (cant) the art of picking a lock. 3. Originally and chiefly U.S. In plural. Usually with capital initials. A cultural movement formed in New York City during the 1960s, which sought to promote the establishment of a characteristic and distinct African-American mode of artistic expression. Frequently attributive, esp. in Black Arts Movement. Now historical.Recorded earliest in the name of the movement's seminal institution, the Black Arts Repertory Theatre School in Harlem, New York City: see quot. 1965. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [noun] > specific movement or period cinquecento1762 classicality1784 romanticism1821 classicism1827 Renaissance1836 classicalism1840 Queen Anne1863 classic1864 renascence1868 classical1875 modernism1879 New Romanticism1885 Colonial Revival1887 shogun1889 super-realism1890 verism1892 neoclassicism1893 veritism1894 social realism1898 camerata1900 peasantism1903 proto-Renaissance1903 Biedermeier1905 expressionism1908 futurism1909 Georgianism1911 Dada1918 Dadaism1918 German expressionism1920 expressionismus1925 Negro Renaissance1925 super-realism1925 settecento1926 surrealism1927 Neue Sachlichkeit1929 Sachlichkeit1930 neo-Gothicism1932 socialist realism1933 modernismus1934 Harlem Renaissance1940 organicism1945 avant-gardism1950 nouvelle vague1959 bricolage1960 kitchen-sinkery1964 black art1965 neo-modernism1966 Yuan1969 conceptualism1970 sound art1972 pre-modernism1976 Afrofuturism1993 1965 N.Y. Amsterdam News 20 Feb. 14/7 LeRoi Jones [later known as Amiri Baraka] has inaugurated The Black Arts Repertory Theatre School in Harlem. 1968 Drama Rev. 12 iv. 29 The Black Arts Movement proposes a radical reordering of the western cultural aesthetic. 1977 G. Smitherman Talkin & Testifyin vi. 177 The Black Arts Movement emerged during the past decade as the appropriate artistic counterpart to the politics of black power. The black arts writer redefined the role of the artist. 1988 H. L. Gates Signifying Monkey iii. 122 Consider Owen Dodson's imitation of a Black Arts poem. 1997 I. Reed in W. L. Andrews et al. Oxf. Compan. Afr. Amer. Lit. 70/2 I think what Black Arts did was inspire a whole lot of Black people to write. 2008 New Yorker 1 Sept. 130/1 The Black Arts Movement, an ideological aesthetic that was first laid out by the poet and activist Amiri Baraka, after Malcolm X's assassination, four years earlier. DerivativesΚΠ a1692 W. Mountfort Life & Death Faustus (1697) i. 8 I came only to ask your Black Artship a Question. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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