单词 | caliban |
释义 | Calibann. A man of degraded bestial nature. Also attributive and in other combinations, as Caliban-like adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > savage person > [noun] > brutal brute1670 Caliban1678 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > uncivilized person wild mana1400 woodwose?a1400 savaginec1450 woodward1488 savagea1544 woodman1601 barbarian1604 woodist1613 wilding1621 brutigenist1631 catamountaina1640 Caliban1678 semi-barbarian1692 Hottentot1710 semi-savage1807 pagan1879 a1616 W. Shakespeare Tempest (1623) i. ii. 310 Wee'll visit Caliban, my slaue, who neuer Yeelds vs kinde answere. View more context for this quotation] 1678 S. Butler Hudibras: Third Pt. iii. i. 17 I found th' Infernal Cunning-man, And th' Under-witch his Caliban, With Scourges..Arm'd. 1876 ‘G. Eliot’ Daniel Deronda II. iv. xix. 232 Grandcourt held that the Jamaican negro was a beastly sort of baptist Caliban. 1909 Lady's Realm Feb. 465/2 He was a Caliban-like creature, primitively ugly. 1921 Chambers's Jrnl. 22/2 A lunatic..indulges in Caliban-like gambols, unheeded. 1965 F. Sargeson Mem. Peon iv. 90 Mr. Gower-Johnson with his Caliban fish-eye. Derivatives ˈCalibanish adj. ΚΠ 1839 F. A. Kemble Jrnl. Resid. Georgian Plantation (1863) 222 The Calibanish wonderment of all my visitors..is very droll. 1872 P. B. Du Chaillu Country of Dwarfs 62 The fiendish countenances of the living calibanish trio. ˈCalibaˌnism n. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > harmfulness > savagery > [noun] rethenesseOE grimcundleȝcc1175 fellhead1340 ferteec1380 fiercenessc1384 savagenessa1400 grimliness14.. fellnessc1410 bestialitya1413 fierceheadc1440 cruelness?a1475 inhumanity1477 bremeness?1529 fury1534 tigerness1535 bruteness1538 immanity1539 wolvishness?1548 ferity?c1550 brutishness1567 truculency1569 Phalarism1581 ferocity1606 savagerya1616 brutality1633 inhumanness1649 wolfishness1676 boarishness1682 brutism1687 truculence1727 ferociousness1766 bestialism1824 tigerhood1846 Calibanism1859 unhumanness1885 inhumanism1907 Hunnishness1914 society > society and the community > customs, values, and civilization > civilization > lack of civilization > [noun] > instance of ferity1646 barbarism1647 brutism1845 Calibanism1859 1859 G. A. Sala Twice round Clock (1861) 69 Where is the Dutch pug? Where is that Narcissus of canine Calibanism? This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online March 2021). < n.1678 |
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