| 单词 |
Dorbel |
| 释义 |
† Dorbel Obs.
1. The English form of Dorbellus, i.e. Nicholas de Orbellis (died 1455), a professor of Scholastic Philosophy at Poitiers, and a vehement supporter of Duns Scotus. Hence, A scholastical pedant, a dull-witted person, dolt; cf. dunce.
[1533Frith Answ. More (1829) 412 Duns, Dorbell, Durand, and such draffe.] 1592G. Harvey Pierce's Super. 158 Then asse..and foole and dolt and idiot, and Dunse and Dorbell and dodipoul..and all the rusty-dusty jestes in a country. 1593Nashe 4 Lett. Confut. 25 Howe Dorbell comes to bee Doctour none asks. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ iii. 305 The dotages of those Talmudicall Dorbels.
2. Sc. ‘Anything that has an unseemly appearance.’ So ˈdorbelish a., stupid, awkward, clumsy; also (nonce-wds.) † dorˈbellical a., † ˈdorbellism, † ˈdorbellist.
1592Nashe P. Penilesse E ij, Thy sheepish discourse..was so vglye, dorbellicall and lumpish. 1593― Christ's T. 64 a, Wil you then hope to beate them [Atheists] down with fusty brown-bread dorbellisme? 1599― Lenten Stuffe Ep. Ded., Olde Iohannes de Indagines and his quire of dorbellists. 1603H. Crosse Vertues Commw. (1878) 107 They flocke to it as crowes to a dead carkasse..be they neuer so ribauld, filthie, or dorbellicall. 1847–78Halliwell, Dorbelish, very clumsy. Linc. |
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