单词 | bustuary |
释义 | † bustuaryn.adj. Obsolete. A. n. A person or thing who sets fire to something or someone. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > properties of materials > temperature > heat > burning > [noun] > going or setting on fire > setting on fire or alight > one who bustuary1607 firer1653 incendiary1655 1607 Bp. J. King Serm. Nov. 25 The disloiall broode of Ignatius Loiola, the notorious Incendiaries, Bustuaries, of christian states. 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 111 Satan..is the great Bustuarie himselfe. 1618 T. Adams Happines of Church ii. 203 They are the firebrands and bustuaries of Kingdomes. B. adj. Of or belonging to the funeral pyre; funereal.In Martial (quots. 1656, 1782) apparently designating women ‘hired to accompany the funeral and lament the loss of the deceased:..[or] the more common prostitutes, that stood among the tombs’ ( New Dict. Arts & Sci. (1754) I. at Bustuariæ Moechæ). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > cremation > [adjective] > relating to pile or pyre bustuary1656 rogal1656 rogalian1656 pyral1658 1656 R. Fletcher tr. Martial Epigrams iii. xciii, in Ex Otio Negotium 29 When she the bath-man with extinguish'd light Admits among the bustuary sluts [L. bustuarias moechas]. 1660 J. Ogilby in tr. Homer Iliad 3 (note) That old and usuall Bustuary Inscription..Domum servavit [etc.]. 1693 T. Urquhart & P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais 3rd Bk. Wks. lii. 423 Ashes into which the Fuel of the Funeral and bustuary Fire [Fr. des cendres du bust & feu funeral] hath been converted. 1782 J. Elphinston tr. Martial Epigrams lxv. 310 The bather will blow out his lamp..Then..Admit all the bustuary whores. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2012; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.adj.1607 |
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