“Œdipean”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

Œdipean

释义

Œdipean, a.|iːd-, ɛdɪˈpiːən|
[irreg. f. Œdipus: see -ean.]
Pertaining to, or like that of, Œdipus; clever at guessing a riddle.
(In quot. 1822 with allusion to the story of Œdipus putting out his own eyes on discovering that he had unwittingly married his mother.)
1621Quarles Argalus & P. Introd., Many have ventured (trusting to the Oedipean conceit of their ingenious Reader) to write non-sense.1822Lamb Lett. ii. (1841) 22 Did the eyes come away kindly with no Œdipean avulsion.1876Spectator 9 Sept. 1131/2 The Œdipean trilogy of Sophocles.1972P. H. Kocher Master of Middle-Earth (1973) iii. 43 In striving to avert a danger he thinks he sees lying ahead he may take the very measures which are necessary to bring it about. All finite knowledge about the future is cursed by this Oedipean paradox.

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