单词 | taoist |
释义 | Taoistn.adj. a. An adherent of Taoism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Taoism > [noun] > person Taoist1838 1838 K. Gützlaff & A. Reed China Opened II. xv. 209 Such are the better description of Taouists in China. 1839 Chinese Repository 7 520 The Taouists are by no means behind in referring to an abode of lasting bliss, which does however still exist on earth. 1863 R. Alcock Capital of Tycoon I. 392 [To] feel, or affect, great contempt for any creed but that of Taouists. 1885 Athenæum 17 Oct. 500/3 It [the ‘Taou-tih-king’] may be considered, therefore, as the Bible of the Taouists. 1971 Ink 12 June 8/3 There were many non strict Daoist farmers there who could have been VC. 1981 Times 22 June 6/8 Unlike the Buddhists, the Daoists have been granted no licence to continue or revive their practices. b. attributive or as adj. Of or belonging to the Taoists or to Taoism. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Taoism > [adjective] tao1831 Taoist1839 Taoistic1856 1839 H. Malcom Trav. II. iii. v. 184 Great officers, and even the emperor himself, build and endow Boodhist and Taouist temples. 1882 Athenæum 16 Sept. 361/2 With the exception of Laou-tsze, the early Taouist philosophers have found no place in English literature... Though professing to be followers of Laou-tsze, they never perfectly understood him, and perverted his doctrines into childish babblings. Derivatives Taoˈistic adj. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > Taoism > [adjective] tao1831 Taoist1839 Taoistic1856 1856 T. T. Meadows Chinese & their Rebellions xix. 440 Representatives of a Buddhistic or Taouistic element, that is struggling with the Confucian element to assert for itself a place in the new religion. 1884 Brit. & Foreign Evangelical Rev. Apr. 367 The Taoistic, or Rationalistic system is about as old as Confucianism. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1910; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1838 |
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