单词 | to be scattered and peeled |
释义 | > as lemmasto be scattered and peeled P2. [Translating post-classical Latin convulsam et dilaceratam (Vulgate, Isaiah 18:2; compare quot. 1611).] to be scattered and peeled and variants: (of a people) to be dispersed, to become estranged from one another. ΚΠ 1611 Bible (King James) Isa. xviii. 2 Goe yee swift messengers to a nation scattered and peeled [L. convulsam et dilaceratam; a1382 Wycliffite, E.V. al to-pullid and torn; a1425 Wycliffite, L.V. drawun up and to-rent; 1535 Coverdale a desperate and pylled folke] . View more context for this quotation 1732 G. Berkeley Serm. to Soc. Propagation Gospel in Wks. (1871) III. 247 They lay under the curse of God,..peeled and scattered in a foreign land. 1744 Wesley Addr. to King in J. H. Overton Evangel. Revival (1886) ix. 162 A people scattered and peeled and trodden under foot. 1781 W. Cowper Expostulation 246 If Heaven spared not us, Peeled, scattered, and exterminated thus. 1883 J. Mackenzie Day-dawn in Dark Places 63 The harmless vassalls..are then scattered and peeled, driven hither and thither, and mercilessly killed. 1887 C. D. Bell Gleaning from Tour 90 A nation peeled and scattered, cast out, oppressed, forlorn. 1995 E. A. Henderson Afrocentrism & World Politics iii. 108 Due to successive invasions of Aryans, Greeks, Persians, Romans, Huns, Mongols, and Turks, they became a nation ‘scattered and peeled’ throughout the Asian continent. < as lemmas |
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