| 单词 | caliban-like |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCaliban-like 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. < as lemmas |
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