| 单词 |
hortus conclusus |
| 释义 |
‖ hortus conclusus|ˈhɔːtəs kənˈkluːsəs|
[Lat., = enclosed garden, in reference to Song Sol. iv. 12.]
a. An enclosed, inviolate garden; in spiritual and exegetical tradition, the symbol of the soul, the Church, or the virginity of Mary.
b. In Art, a painting of the Madonna and Child in an enclosed garden. Freq. transf.
1624Donne LXXX Sermons (1640) xvii. 165 The University is a Paradise, Rivers of knowledge are there, Arts and Sciences flow from thence. Counsell Tables are Horti conclusi (as it is said in the Canticles). 1852A. B. Jameson Legends Madonna p. xlviii, The Enclosed Garden (Hortus conclusus)... I have seen this enclosed garden very significantly placed in the background of the Annunciation, and in pictures of the Immaculate Conception. Sometimes the enclosure is formed of a treillage or hedge of roses, as in a beautiful Virgin by Francia. 1940‘M. Innes’ There came both Mist & Snow i. 7, I shall get more surely on the rails if I drop ancestry and the hortus conclusus of history and begin again with some account of the Priory itself. 1947‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder ix. 208 People that would trample over her little hortus conclusus. 1956M. Swan Paradise Garden xvii. 161 The protective hedges of his hortus conclusus were rotten and useless with disease. 1957N. Frye Anat. Criticism 152 The symbol of the body of the Virgin as a hortus conclusus. 1963Listener 21 Mar. 520/2 Nepal has long been the hortus conclusus of the fabulous Ranas. |
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