| 单词 | canting coat |
| 释义 | > as lemmascanting coat 3. Unreal or affected use of language; spec. the formal use of religious or pietistic phrases; hypocritical talk; see cant n.3 5b, 6 In 17th cent. applied in ridicule to the preaching of Presbyterians and Puritans; hence canting coat, the Geneva gown, or coat of the Puritan minister. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > absence of meaning > nonsense, rubbish > insincere or pretentious talk > [noun] flash1605 sniffling1653 canting1659 cant1710 galbanum1764 gas1793 blarney1796 gammon1805 slum1812 claptrap1819 flam1825 glittering generality1849 bull's wool1850 eyewash1857 bunkum1862 hot air1873 kid1874 fustian1880 flubdub1888 bull1914 oil1917 blah1918 drip1919 piss and wind1922 banana-oil1927 flannel1927 crud1943 old talk1956 ole talk1964 okey-doke1969 yada yada1991 society > faith > aspects of faith > piety > sanctimoniousness > [noun] > talk lip-labour?1548 lip-labouring1549 canting1659 cant1709 lip-work1894 society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > gown > Geneva gown Genevac1650 canting coat1659 Geneva gown1811 the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > deceit, deception, trickery > dissimulation, pretence > hypocrisy > [noun] > in (religious) talk canting1659 cant1709 snide1966 1659 Character Eng. in Harl. Misc. X. 191 [The Presbyterians]..make an insipid, tedious, and immethodical prayer, in phrases and a tone so affected and mysterious that they give it the name of canting: a term by which they do usually express the gibberish of beggars and vagabonds. 1687 J. Dryden Hind & Panther iii. 86 Quit the Cassock for the Canting-coat. 1698 J. Norris Pract. Disc. Divine Subj. IV. 190 Canting I call using Words without any real Sense or Notion under them. 1722 W. Sewel Hist. Quakers (1795) II. vii. 23 Judge. Leave your canting. 1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker II. 72 Here has been nothing but canting and praying since the fellow entered the place. 1809 S. Smith Wks. (1867) I. 141 They hate canting and hypocrisy. canting coat 5. Heraldry. canting arms: = allusive arms n. at allusive adj. Compounds. So canting heraldry, canting herald, canting coat. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > heraldic devices collective > [adjective] > types of arms fixal1486 familiar1646 vocal arms1728 canting arms1738 1738 E. Chambers Cycl. (ed. 2) at Arms Canting Arms, are those wherein the figures bear an allusion to the name of the family. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. xiv. 199 Canting heraldry . View more context for this quotation 1830 W. Scott Monastery (new ed.) II. vii. 92 A device of a punning or canting herald. 1864 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. III. 30 His descendants gave a very clever canting coat, a bridge crossing a conventional similitude of water. 1875 C. M. Yonge Cameos cxxiv, in Monthly Packet May 500 Boleyn—or Bull-en, had the canting arms of a black bull's head. < as lemmas |
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