单词 | aceldama |
释义 | Aceldaman. A field of bloodshed; a scene of slaughter or butchery; a wretched place. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > battlefield > [noun] fieldeOE place?c1225 fletc1275 champ of battlec1300 champany?a1400 o laundon?a1400 palaestrac1425 battle-stead1487 fighting-stead1487 open fielda1500 spear-field1508 joining-place1513 camp1525 foughten field1569 battleground1588 Aceldama1607 champian?1611 field of honour1611 champaign1614 standing ground1662 fighting-field1676 battlefield1715 the world > life > death > killing > slaughter > [noun] > scene of butchery?1552 slaughterhouse1578 shamble1593 Aceldama1607 corpse-factory1919 killing ground1946 killing field1980 1607 L. Lloyd Tragicocomedie of Serpents iii. 41 The verie Daemon Maeridianus; which with their diuelish deuise thought to make Acheldama of England, Scotland, and Ireland. a1658 J. Cleveland Content in Wks. (1687) 248 In this dark way Of Death, this Scarlet-streak'd Aceldama. 1694 R. Franck Northern Mem. 17 Are not the Nations about us like an Acaldemy of Blood, that darkens the Air? 1744 E. Young Complaint: Night the Sixth 6 Love Divine, Which lifts us..From Earth's Aceldama, this Field of Blood. 1756 E. Burke Vindic. Nat. Society 21 What an Aceldama, what a Field of Blood Sicily has been in ancient times. 1834 T. De Quincey Cæsars in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. July 74/2 All brought their tributes of beauty or deformity to these vast Aceldamas of Rome. 1872 North-China Herald 11 May 380/1 The coolies dismissed from these Aceldamas on account of sickness. 1919 W. J. Locke Far-away Stories 208 It was an Aceldama of a spot in winter; and only a matter of peculiar urgency had brought me hither. 1981 Times 22 Oct. 11/6 He himself survived the Aceldama of Anzio. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1607 |
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