单词 | this star |
释义 | > as lemmasthis star 2. In wider use: any celestial object visible in the sky in the day or night, including the sun, moon, and planets; sometimes also (esp. in this star) the earth. diurnal star, star of day, †star of noon (obsolete): the sun. ΚΠ OE Ælfric Homily: De Falsis Diis (Corpus Cambr. 178) in J. C. Pope Homilies of Ælfric (1968) II. 687 Hi..forgeafon him [sc. the planetary deities] steorran, swilce hi ahton heora geweald: þa syfan tunglan, sunnan and monan, and þa oðre fif. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 141 Þe sterre þet hatte saturne. c1425 J. Lydgate Troyyes Bk. (Augustus A.iv) iv. l. 4445 (MED) O cruel Mars..þou sterre infortunat..O hatful sterre..In strif and murmur most is þi desyre. 1563 L. Humphrey Nobles or of Nobilitye sig. C.iiv Venus sterre in skye dymmes all the rest. 1585 R. Greene Planetomachia sig. B3 Most skilfull interpretors of celestiall misteries..call the starre of Saturne intemperate, infortunate, and ill affected. 1601 R. Dolman tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. III. 322 There are some [trees], which naturally follow the Sun,..hauing a sympathy and secret inclination to this star. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost x. 1069 Ere this diurnal Starr Leave cold the Night. View more context for this quotation 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 118 Providence has left us no Means to know what is done in the Moon, or other Stars. 1745 E. Young Consolation 84 Worlds conceal'd by Day Behind the proud, and envious, Star of Noon! 1808 T. B. Macaulay in G. O. Trevelyan Life & Lett. Macaulay (1876) I. i. 32 The star of day had reached the West. 1870 R. S. Hawker Let. 5 July in Life & Lett. (1905) 588 No, my fate is fixed. Here on this Star nothing of any palm: it is reserved for another Sphere, a far-away world. 1903 J. Hawthorne Hawthorne & His Circle xiv. 276 The last rays of the star of day before it sinks below the horizon forever. 1960 Monroe (Louisiana) News-Star 4 Mar. a3/4 ‘We have only one star beneath our feet,’ Khrushchev said. ‘Coexistence is the only way to live on this star.’ 2014 P. D. Omodeo Copernicus in Cultural Deb. Renaissance vi. 248 This found justification, in Kepler, in the conviction that the diurnal star was not only the geometrical center of the cosmos, but that it also exerted a force on the planets. < as lemmas |
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