单词 | tear-bottle |
释义 | tear-bottlen. A bottle containing tears (cf. Psalm lvi. 8 ‘put my tears into thy bottle’); also transferred; spec. = lachrymatory n. 1, applied to small bottles or phials, such as are found in ancient tombs, supposed, with doubtful correctness, to have contained tears shed for the deceased. ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > [noun] > grave goods > tear-bottle lachrymatory1658 tear-bottle1658 urn1753 lachrymary1755 lachrymal1769 tear-jug1869 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall iii. 33 No..Lachrymatories, or Tear-bottles attended these rurall Urnes. a1680 J. Bargrave Pope Alexander VII (1867) ii. 122 Called lachrymatorij, or tear-bottles, because the friends and relations of the defunct were in ancient time accustomed at the funeral to carry each of them a lachrymatorio in his hand, to save his tears that he shed for his deceased friend, and then leave those bottles behind them with the immuralld corps. 1884 ‘H. Collingwood’ Under Meteor Flag 259 Stow away the tear-bottles, coil down all tender feeling out of sight. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1911; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < |
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