| 单词 | stocks and stones |
| 释义 | > as lemmasstocks and stones d. Applied contemptuously to an idol or a sacred image. Chiefly in the phrase stocks and stones = ‘gods of wood and stone’. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > idol godeOE anlikenessOE stockc1000 mammetc1225 Mahometc1275 Mahoundc1275 idola1325 simulacre1382 marmoseta1398 mammetrya1400 puppet1534 poppet?1548 block1570 Dagona1572 pagoda1582 pagody1588 Mokisso1634 poppet deitya1641 pageant idol1696 pageant thing1696 afgod1769 cult figure1895 c1000 Ælfric Deut. xxviii. 36 Ge þeouiað fremdum godum, stoccum and stanum. a1225 St. Marher. 1 Heðene mawmez of stockes, ant of stanes, werkes iwrahte. c1374 G. Chaucer Troilus & Criseyde iii. 589 He swor hir, yis, by stokkes and by stones, And by the goddes that in hevene dwelle. 1390 J. Gower Confessio Amantis II. 178 How myhte a mannes resoun sein That such a Stock mai helpe or grieve? c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 198 Thei worschipiden ymagis of stoonys or of stockis. 1529 T. More Dialogue Heresyes i, in Wks. 140/1 Of al our Ladies saith one, I loue best our Lady of Walsingam. And I saith ye other our Lady of Ippiswitch. In whiche woordes what meneth she but her..affeccion to the stocke yt standeth in the chapel of Walsingam or Ippiswiche. a1591 H. Smith Sinfull Mans Search (1592) sig. B6 That ye be not seduced to offer your petitions to strange gods, as Saints, stockes or stones. 1611 Bible (King James) Jer. iii. 9. 1611 Bible (King James) Wisd. xiv. 21. 1640 J. Taylor Differing Worships 4 Imploring aid..From ragges and reliques, stones, and stocks of wood. 1673 J. Milton Sonnets xv, in Poems (new ed.) 58 When all our Fathers worship't Stocks and Stones. 1825 W. Scott Talisman xv, in Tales Crusaders IV. 361 Those whom we regard as idolaters, and worshippers of stocks and stones. 1874 A. H. Sayce Princ. Compar. Philol. viii. 332 There was a worship of nature instead of stocks and stones. < as lemmas |
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