单词 | thing-field |
释义 | > as lemmasThing-field C1. attributive. Designating a place where a Thing meets, as Thing-field, Thing-stead, etc. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > ruler or governor > deliberative, legislative, or administrative assembly > governing or legislative body of a nation or community > [noun] > place of meeting Parliament chamber1410 parliament house1440 senatoire1474 senatory1474 senate-house?1556 state house1608 senate1616 Thing-field1847 Thing-stead1847 1847 I. A. Blackwell in T. Percy et al. tr. P. H. Mallet Northern Antiq. (rev. ed.) 108 (note) Places where such circles of upright stones are found, were, generally speaking, Thingsteads, that is to say, the places where the Things or legislative and judicial assemblies were held. 1852 Stories of Norsemen iv. 122 When the bonders who were at the Thing saw it, they started up and bowed themselves down before the idol. Then was it set down upon the Thing field. 1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard II. i. 7 All that were gathered that day upon the Thing-hill. 1886 J. S. Corbett Fall of Asgard II. xiv. 195 To Olaf's great Thing-hall went Thorkel,..on the day appointed. 1889 W. Morris House Wolfings ii, in Coll. Wks. (1911) XIV. 13 And the hosting is at the Thing-stead, the Upper-mark anigh; And we wend away to-morrow ere the Sun is noon-tide high. 1935 Times 24 June 13/6 Long processions of thousands of S.A., S.S., Labour Service men, and members of the Hitler Youth and League of German Girls, transported..to ‘Thing places’ (tribal meeting places). 1966 C. Hutter tr. E. Oxenstierna Norsemen vii. 155 It is exactly like the thing-hill beside the three king-barrows in Old Uppsala,and like innumerable thing-mounds in the rest of Scandinavia. < as lemmas |
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