单词 | numen |
释义 | numen (once / 26324 pages) n WORD FAMILY numen: numina, numinous USAGE EXAMPLESThe architecture nominees include Thomas Heatherwick’s UK Pavilion at the Shanghai Expo 2010 and dramatic tape installations by the Croatian/Austrian collective Numen/For Use. New York Times(Feb 28, 2011) Another of the oaths prescribed by command of Caligula was “per numen Drusillæ.” Sharman, Julian, A Cursory History of Swearing(2010) When such powers or numina were conceived as personalities with definite names they became ‘gods,’ dei. Boak, Arthur Edward Romilly, A History of Rome to 565 A. D.(2010) n a spirit believed to inhabit an object or preside over a place (especially in ancient Roman religion) Hyper disembodied spirit, spirit any incorporeal supernatural being that can become visible (or audible) to human beings |
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