单词 | to bear, cast, look with, an evil eye |
释义 | > as lemmasto bear, cast, look with, an evil eye 6. evil eye n. (Phrases, to bear, cast, look with, an evil eye.) extracted from eviladj.n.1 a. A look of ill-will. ΚΠ c1000 Liber Scintillarum xxvii. (1889) 102 Unclænnyss eage yfel [oculus malus] withersacung..gemænsumiaþ man. c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) Mark vii. 22 Fro withynne, of the herte of men comen..vnchastite, yuel yre [read yȝe; a1425 L.V. iȝe], blasphemyes. 1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. xx. f. xxviij Ys thyne eye evyll because I am good? 1611 Bible (King James) Mark vii. 22 Lasciuiousnesse, an euill eye [Rev. V. an evil eye], blasphemie. View more context for this quotation a1639 W. Whately Prototypes (1640) i. xx. 202 Why should wee..beare an evill eye towards them? a1644 F. Quarles Solomons Recantation (1645) x. 79 Let not thine eyes be evill. 1705 J. Addison Remarks Italy 84 They look with an Evil Eye upon Leghorne. 1875 B. Jowett tr. Plato Dialogues (ed. 2) I. 394 Patriotic citizens will cast an evil eye upon you as a subverter of the laws. b. A malicious or envious look which, in popular belief, had the power of doing material harm; also, the faculty, superstitiously ascribed to certain individuals, of inflicting injury by a look. Cf. French mauvais œil, Italian malocchio. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > spell > malignant enchantment or curse > evil eye ill eye1615 evil eye1796 malocchio1821 bad eye1848 1796 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. XVIII. 123 The less informed..are afraid of their [old Women's] evil Eye among the cattle. 1797 J. Dallaway Constantinople 391 Nothing can exceed the superstition of the Turks respecting the Evil Eye of an enemy or infidel. 1834 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last Days of Pompeii I. i. iii. 52 He certainly possesses the gift of the evil eye. 1871 C. Reade Terrible Tempt. xxxiii Or if you didn't kill him, you'd cast the evil eye on him. 1879 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. at Evil 'E's a nasty downlookin' fellow—looks as if 'e could cast a nev'l-eye upon yo'. < as lemmas |
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