| 单词 | caput medusae |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCaput Medusae 4. Occasionally used in certain Latin phrases in Astronomy, etc., as Caput Draconis, i.e. Dragon's Head, a star in Draco; caput lupinum (lit., wolf's head), an outlaw: see wolf's-head n. 2; Caput Medusae, the star Algol or Medusa's Head in Perseus; also a species of fossil Pentacrinite; caput radicis, the crown of the root in a plant. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > outlawry > [noun] > outlaw outlawOE friendless manOE wolf's-head?c1300 waithmanc1425 banished man1495 broken man1528 proscript1576 horner1590 outlawed1644 caput lupinum1837 ronin1858 society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > [noun] > rendering outcast > outcast > outlaw flemeOE outlawOE wolf's-head?c1300 waithmanc1425 caput lupinum1837 ronin1858 owl-hoot1934 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V lxxxii, in Poems (1878) IV. 121 Irresolution, doth as Dreadfull rise As Caput Algot in Nativities. 1797 Encycl. Brit. IV. 156/1 Anciently an outlawed felon was said to have caput lupinum.] 1837 T. B. Macaulay Crit. & Hist. Ess. (1843) II. 393 That a valetudinarian..should be treated as a caput lupinum because he could not read the Timæus without a headache, was a notion which the humane spirit of the English school of wisdom altogether rejected. 1888 Guardian 4 Apr. 488/2 The National League, if it did not formally decree the death of Fitzmaurice for disobedience to its orders, at least proclaimed him as a Caput Lupinum. < as lemmas |
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