| 单词 | to break priscian's head |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto break Priscian's head b. To crack or rupture (the skin); to graze, bruise, wound, as in phrase to break one's head. to break Priscian's head: to violate the rules of grammar. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > injury > injure [verb (transitive)] > wound woundc760 breakc1175 hurt1297 sorea1400 bewound?1567 vuln1583 vulnerate1599 gugg1633 sauciate1645 plunk1888 traumatize1903 c1175 Lamb. Hom. 83 Ȝef he hefde on his moder ibroken hire meidenhad. c1305 Jud. Iscariot 50 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 108 Children..he wolde smyte, And breke here armes and here heued. 1490 W. Caxton tr. Foure Sonnes of Aymon (1885) x. 256 Atte the fallyng that he made, he brake all his browes. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet i. iii. 40 Euen the day before shee brake her brow. View more context for this quotation a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) ii. i. 77 Backe slaue, or I will breake thy pate a-crosse. View more context for this quotation 1711 E. Budgell Spectator No. 161. ¶3 A Ring of Cudgel-Players..breaking one another's Heads. 1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 22. §6 Observe how this..orator breaks poor Priscian's head for the good of his country. 1883 Daily Tel. 10 July 5/4 Does Shakespeare never break Priscian's head? to break Priscian's head 1. The name of a celebrated Roman grammarian (fl. c500–25) used esp. in to break Priscian's head and variants: to contravene grammatical rules. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > inaccuracy, inexactness > incorrectness of language > err linguistically [verb (intransitive)] > in grammar to break Priscian's heada1529 a1529 J. Skelton Speke Parrot in Certayne Bks. (?1545) sig. A.v Prisians hed broken, now handy dandy And inter didascolos, is rekened for a fole. 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost v. i. 28 Prescian, a litle scratcht. View more context for this quotation 1606 G. Chapman Sir Gyles Goosecappe i. sig. Cv Will speake false Latine, and breake Priscians head. a1634 T. Gerard Particular Descr. Somerset (1900) 224 Knocking poore Priscian's pate soe familiarly as in most ancient evidence they doe. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. ii. 83 [They] hold no sin so deeply red, As that of breaking Priscian's head. 1701 J. Gordon Remarks L'Estrange's Æsops Fables 42 There is far greater danger to the Church of God in absurd Reasonings..than in the frequent wounding of Priscian's Head. 1729 A. Pope Dunciad (new ed.) iii. 156 Some free from rhyme or reason, rule or check, Break Priscian's head, and Pegasus's neck. 1785 R. Cumberland Observer No. 22. §6 Observe how this..orator breaks poor Priscian's head for the good of his country. 1803 Gradus ad Cantabrigiam 81 A Kiplingism; a blunder-bus levelled at poor Priscian's head by the learned Dr. Kipling. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 124 If he has not broken Priscian's head, he has at least boxed his ears. 1883 Daily Tel. 10 July 5/4 Does Shakespeare never break Priscian's head? 1911 Amer. Jrnl. Philol. 32 478 It would be interesting to know whether a dreaming grammarian would have any scruples about breaking Priscian's head or murdering the King's English. 1968 Classical Rev. 18 239/1 Once Priscian's head is soundly broken..and there are a good many places where sense and latinity do not receive their due. < as lemmas |
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