| 单词 | transferred epithet |
| 释义 | > as lemmastransferred epithet transferred adj. /-ˈfɜːd/ conveyed from one person, place, sense, etc. to another. transferred epithet, an epithet grammatically qualifying a noun other than (though contextually associated with) the noun to which it literally applies. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > transference > [adjective] > transferred transmigrate1430 transumpt1495 moved1605 transferred1863 the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > a part of speech > adjective > [noun] > epithet > transferred transferred epithet1863 society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [adjective] > characterized by metaphor > metaphorical or figurative figurative14.. figural?a1500 translated1511 figurate1548 tropological1555 metaphorical1563 tropical1565 tropic1569 translate1582 allusory1587 translative1589 allusive1593 metaphoric1597 transumptive1597 transferent1614 translatitious1637 analogic1638 tralatitious1645 parabolic1696 tropologic1796 transitive1810 transferred1863 1863 H. Allon Mem. J. Sherman 279 102 members were added in 1839 and 63 in 1840, including transferred members. 1866 A. Bain Eng. Composit. & Rhet. 24 The Transferred Epithet is a common figure in Poetry. The shifting of an epithet from its proper subject to some allied subject..is seen in... ‘Hence to his idle bed.’ 1883 N.E.D. I. Gen. Explan. p. xxi The word was first taken into English..in a figurative, transferred, or specialized use. 1886 J. W. Ebsworth Roxburghe Ballads VI. 165 As a transferred ballad, Dulcina was entered to John White and Thomas Langley, in the Registers of the Stationers' Company. 1947 C. Brooks Well Wrought Urn ix. 159 One can..justify the adjective as a transferred epithet on the model of Vergil's maestum timorem. 1958 C. Brooke-Rose Gram. Metaphor iii. 57 I have not found this transferred epithet in the later texts. < as lemmas |
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