英语词汇“geis”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组、英语词典-本地帮

单词

geis

释义

▪ I. ‖ geis|gɛʃ, geɪʃ, giːʃ|
Also gaysh, geas. Pl. geasa, geise.
[Ir.]
In Irish folklore: a solemn injunction, prohibition, or taboo; a moral obligation.
1880S. Ferguson Poems 63 This journey at this season was ill-timed, As made in violation of the gaysh.1899D. Hyde Lit. Hist. Irel. 344 He thought he saw Gradh son of Lir upon the plain, and it was a geis (tabu) to him to see that.Ibid. 373 Every man who entered the Fenian ranks had four geasa (gassa, i.e., tabus) laid upon him.1928Observer 22 Jan. 5/4 Apparently a man could be either:—(1) Born under a ‘geis’ prohibiting certain actions on his part, or (2) Laid under ‘geis’ either at birth or any time during his life, either by divine or human agency.1965New Statesman 23 July 129/2 In a sense which most Irish people will know, this put Fallon under a geas, a moral compulsion, to say his bit.
▪ II. geis(e
obs. form of geese, pl. of goose.

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