单词 | uranian |
释义 | Uraniann.1adj.2 A. n.1 An (imagined or hypothetical) inhabitant of the planet Uranus. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [noun] > Uranus > inhabitant of Uranian1834 1834 J. Chickering in J. V. C. Smith Sci. Tracts & Family Lyceum II. 137 On the contrary, the Saturnians or Uranians must have superior acuteness of vision. 1870 R. A. Proctor Other Worlds than Ours vii. 168 The year of the Uranians lasts 84 of our years. 1995 R. Belton Beribboned Bomb v. 166 A female medium who had professed to be able to communicate with Martians and Uranians and who had produced drawings of their alphabet and pictographs to ‘prove’ it. 2010 J. Culberson Quroak xix. 194 How far advanced are the Uranians over us in physics and engineering to pull off something like this? B. adj.2 Of or relating to the planet Uranus. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > planet > primary planet > superior planet > [adjective] > Uranus Uranian1839 1839 Fantastical Excursion into Planets 179 Whilst I was thus regulating the Uranian climate..there lurked a very contemptuous grin in this very goblin's every feature. 1844 W. H. Smyth Cycle Celestial Objects I. 205 The Uranian astronomer must be well stationed for watching comets. 1885 A. M. Clerke Pop. Hist. Astron. 114 No further Neptunian or Uranian satellites can be perceived. 1936 Sci. Monthly June 565/1 Simon Newcomb..published important works on the Uranian and Neptunian systems. 1976 Isis 67 555 W. T. Carrigan..had been computing Uranian residuals for Lowell since 1905. 2002 Sci. Amer. (U.K. ed.) Feb. 57/2 Correlations of satellite positions and ring features occur in the Jovian, Uranian and Neptunian systems as well. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). Uranianadj.1n.2 A. adj.1 1. a. literary and poetic. Relating to or befitting heaven; celestial, heavenly. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > heaven > [adjective] heavenisheOE heavenlyOE heavenlyOE celestienc1330 celestialc1384 celestly1400 supernc1429 supernal1447 ethereala1522 celesticala1533 supermundal?1577 paradised1594 etherean1600 Uranian1600 superlunary1614 unearthlya1616 supermundane1623 superterrestrial1635 supralunary1635 pantheana1641 supramundane1662 ethereous1667 supermundial1678 superlunar1742 superterrene1755 unworldly1765 supraterrestrial1836 supralunar1851 other world1882 other-worldish1894 the world > the universe > space > [adjective] apogeana1644 ultramundane1656 extramundane1661 super-aerial1664 outworldish1674 unterrestrial1745 transmundane1777 extra-terrene1843 cosmical1849 extra-telluric1868 extra-terrestrial1868 exterrestrial1870 cosmic1876 extra-tellurian1881 supermundane1883 Uranian1908 contraterrene1946 space-borne1952 space-borne1967 spacy1967 1600 C. Tourneur Transformed Metamorph. sig. D2 He bent his mind to pure Vranian vses. 1619 A. Gardyne Lyf William Elphinstoun 25 in Theatre Sc. Worthies (1878) That concord, loue, and peace..Ar suirelie..Uranian [printed Uraniah] and Diuine. 1730 A. Brice Freedom 55 Leave th' unfathomed Theme To Bless'd Uranian Paraclete Divine. 1818 P. B. Shelley Prose Wks. (1880) III. 21 Surrounded by sculptures of divine workmanship, he sees the earthly image of Uranian Love. 1854 S. T. Dobell Balder xxiii. 90 That old Italian, whose Uranian pride When his great prince had forfeited the skies, Built him another heaven. 1893 F. Thompson Poems 21 And parting from her, in me linger on Vague snatches of Uranian antiphon. 1908 G. G. A. Murray in R. R. Marett Anthropol. & Classics 68 A great proportion of our anthropological material is already to be found in prehistoric Crete..the stones, the beasts, the pillars, and the ouranian birds. 2007 J. McCourt Now Voyagers iii. 86 The rapt votaries..lending a certain ‘Uranian’ luster to the atmosphere on board the Queen Mary, purposed..to portion their days at sea according to strict precepts of brahmacharya and vanaprastha. b. As a distinctive epithet of Venus (or Aphrodite): heavenly, spiritual. Contrasted with pandemian adj., pandemic adj. 3. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > relating to or associated with Venus Venerean1575 venereous1592 Uranian1736 1736 Universal Hist. I. i. ix. 919 That this Uranian or celestial Venus of the Assyrians was the moon, cannot be doubted, by the rank she holds next to Bel, or the sun. 1768 A. Tucker Light of Nature III. 301 Genuine Liberty, offspring of all-protecting Jove, and sister of Uranian Venus. 1850 Ld. Tennyson Princess (ed. 3) i. 23 Over him [sc. Cupid] Uranian Venus hung. 1904 L. Tracy Rainbow Island viii One might almost fancy her ladyship the Moon appearing on the scene as a Uranian Venus. 1989 A. W. Price Love & Friendship Plato & Aristotle 226 Pausanias, whose distinction between Uranian and Pandemian Aphrodite is more clearly alien to us. 2005 J. Chytry Cytherica vii. 128 Amor divinus corresponds to the Cytherean or Uranian Venus and is to be identified with the faculty of nous or intellectus. c. Homosexual; pederastic; spec. (of poetry) expressing an admiration for male youth. Cf. uranism n. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [adjective] > homosexual inverted1870 Uranian1883 homosexual1892 homogenic1894 camp1910 homosex1913 queer1914 homoerotic1915 homosexualist1920 homo1923 faggoty1928 tapette1930 fag1932 gay1934 so1937 same-sex1938 faggy1949 ginger beer1959 that waya1960 that way inclineda1960 ginger1965 minty1965 pink1972 leather1990 1883 J. A. Symonds Probl. Greek Ethics xiii. 43 Then he turns to the Uranian love. 1893 J. A. Symonds in Spirit Lamp 3 ii. 29 Thou standest on this craggy cove, Live image of Uranian Love. 1898 O. Wilde Let. ?18 Feb. (1962) 705 To have altered my life would have been to have admitted that Uranian love is ignoble. 1914 E. Carpenter Intermediate Types among Primitive Folk 11 Inversion in some form was regarded as a necessary part of social life, and the Uranian man accorded a certain meed of honour. 1975 P. Fussell Great War & Mod. Mem. viii. 294 The effect of the revision is to efface indications of the poem's Uranian leanings, to replace the pretty of 1913 with the nasty of 1917. 2001 J. J. Kripal Roads Excess, Palaces Wisdom ii. 132 Hallāj thus becomes..a uranian or satanic lover of God in the memories of the earliest Hallajians. 2. Of or relating to Urania, muse of astronomy in classical mythology; dedicated to Urania. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of other classical deities Palladian1562 Demogorgonian1569 Minerva-like1598 Trophonian1603 Latonian1605 Minerval1610 Uranian1656 vertumnal1705 Psychean1828 1656 Earl of Monmouth tr. T. Boccalini Ragguagli di Parnasso ii. iii. 201 Euclide..was set upon by some under the Uranian Porch. 1820 P. B. Shelley Milton's Spirit 2 I dreamed that Milton's spirit rose, and took From life's green tree his Uranian lute. 1885 J. S. Blackie Lett. to Wife (1909) 333 I paid worship to the Uranian muse. 2003 J. M. Rhodes Eros, Wisdom, & Silence iv. 236 One must gratify and preserve orderly men and bring the disorderly to the Uranian Eros of the Uranian Muse. 3. Of or relating to astronomy; astronomical. Chiefly in titles. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > cosmology > astronomy > [adjective] astronomical1551 astrological1576 uranical1585 astronomic1613 Uranian1762 uranological1815 uranoscopic1817 uranic1862 1762 Ann. Reg. 1761 i. 194/2 Crabtree, whom Horrox had, by letter, invited to this Uranian banquet [sc. the observation of the transit of Venus, 1639]. 1832 G. Frost & W. Frost (title) Uranian guide; or, outline celestial atlas. 1839 (title) Uranian Society: this society is established for the advancement of Astronomical Science. 2005 K. Anderson Predicting Weather ii. 71 In July 1839 an offshoot, the Uranian Society, was founded to openly discuss the question of planetary influence. B. n.2 A homosexual man; a pederast. Cf. sense A. 1c and urning n. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual orientation > homosexuality > [noun] > a homosexual person urning1883 invert1892 homosexual1894 Uranist1895 homosexualist1898 Uranian1908 intersexualc1910 homoerotic1915 homo1923 one of those1927 freak1941 homophile1945 gay1953 consenting adult1957 minty1957 lesbigays1992 1908 E. Carpenter Intermediate Sex i. 13 One may safely say that the defect of the male Uranian, or Urning, is not sensuality—but rather sentimentality. c1910 ‘X. Mayne’ Intersexes vii. 173 An appreciable influence in developing early Uranism is the fact that the tutor..may be an Uranian of pederastic inclinations. 1946 G. W. Allen Walt Whitman Handbk. i. 72 A frank discussion of Whitman as one of those ‘sports’ in nature which sex pathologists call ‘Uranians’. 1975 P. Fussell Great War & Mod. Mem. viii. 283 A less respectable..tradition of homoeroticism was that of the so-called Uranians, a body of enthusiastic pedophils. 2000 N.Y. Rev. Bks. 23 Mar. 27 A man might feel: Oh my god, I'm an invert, a Uranian, an Urning—or whatever. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1adj.21834adj.1n.21600 |
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