英语词汇“the nations of the dead”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

b. the nations (also †nation) of the dead [echoing Homer, especially Odyssey 10. 526 (ancient Greek ἔθνεα νεκρῶν)] : the totality of people who have died, imagined as forming nations corresponding to those of the living. Cf. phantom nation n. at phantom n. and adj. Compounds 1a. Now rare.

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1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses x. 158 When the all-calling nation of the dead Thou thus hast praid to; offer on the place, A Ram and Ewe all blacke.

1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 71 What time the persons of these Ossuaries entred the famous Nations of the dead.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 3 He is Dead and Buried, and by this time no Puny among the mighty Nations of the Dead.

1736 A. Pope Wks. I. 52 Love, strong as Death, the Poet led To the pale nations of the dead.

1785 T. Dwight Conquest of Canäan x. 251 Far o'er the world blank midnight casts her shade, And trembling rise the nations of the dead.

1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man II. iii. 84 He is gone to the nations of the dead; he has become one of those, who render the dark abode of the obscure grave illustrious by dwelling there.

1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 419 The blood-draught necromantic, and the charms Whereat the shadowy nations of the dead Shudder.

1986 R. Syme Augustan Aristocracy ii. 20 If a sole attested son first saw the light of day when a senator was about thirty-five or forty, a surmise becomes legitimate that others preceding had aggregated to the nameless nations of the dead.

单词	the nations of the dead
释义	> as lemmas the nations (also †nation) of the dead b. the nations (also †nation) of the dead [echoing Homer, especially Odyssey 10. 526 (ancient Greek ἔθνεα νεκρῶν)] : the totality of people who have died, imagined as forming nations corresponding to those of the living. Cf. phantom nation n. at phantom n. and adj. Compounds 1a. Now rare. ΚΠ 1616 G. Chapman tr. Homer Odysses x. 158 When the all-calling nation of the dead Thou thus hast praid to; offer on the place, A Ram and Ewe all blacke. 1658 Sir T. Browne Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall v. 71 What time the persons of these Ossuaries entred the famous Nations of the dead. a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 3 He is Dead and Buried, and by this time no Puny among the mighty Nations of the Dead. 1736 A. Pope Wks. I. 52 Love, strong as Death, the Poet led To the pale nations of the dead. 1785 T. Dwight Conquest of Canäan x. 251 Far o'er the world blank midnight casts her shade, And trembling rise the nations of the dead. 1826 M. W. Shelley Last Man II. iii. 84 He is gone to the nations of the dead; he has become one of those, who render the dark abode of the obscure grave illustrious by dwelling there. 1864 P. J. Bailey Festus (ed. 7) 419 The blood-draught necromantic, and the charms Whereat the shadowy nations of the dead Shudder. 1986 R. Syme Augustan Aristocracy ii. 20 If a sole attested son first saw the light of day when a senator was about thirty-five or forty, a surmise becomes legitimate that others preceding had aggregated to the nameless nations of the dead. extracted from nationn.¹ < as lemmas
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