“xenial”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

xenial

释义

xenial, a. Gr. Antiq.|ˈziːnɪəl|
[f. Gr. ξενία xenia + -al¹.]
Of the nature of, or pertaining to, the relation between host and guest: applied to a friendly relation between two persons of different countries, or between a person and a foreign country. So ˈxenian a. (in quot. 1834 rendering Gr. ξένιος, a title of Zeus as protector of the rights of hospitality).
1834Fraser's Mag. X. 533 The holy customs of the Xenian Jove.1858Gladstone Homer I. 220 The Taphians,..from the xenial relation of their Lord Mentes to Ulysses, must in all likelihood have lived in the neighbourhood of Ithaca.1869― Juv. Mundi iii. 87 Demetor Tasides..is represented..as being in xenial relations with Egypt.

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