“neurospast”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

neurospast

释义

† neurospast Obs.
[ad. Gr. νευρόσπαστ-ον, neut. of νευρόσπαστος, f. νεῦρον sinew + σπᾶν to draw.]
A figure or puppet moved by strings.
1642Cudworth Serm. 1 John ii. 3, 4 (1676) 64 They that are acted only by an outward Love are but like Neurospasts, or those little Puppets that skip nimbly up and down.1660N. Ingelo Bentiv. & Ur. i. (1682) 91 [He] denied God power to make any other sort of creatures besides Neurospasts.
Hence † neurospastic a. Obs. rare^—1.
a1706Evelyn Hist. Relig. (1850) II. 281 To these [images] with subtile wires and neurospastic springs, they give..various motions of head, and eyes.

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