| 单词 | ganza |
| 释义 | ganza|ˈgænzə|
Also 7 gansa, gansaw.
[app. Godwin took the word from the reading of the old edd. of Pliny N.H. x. xxii; see quot. 1601.]
One of the birds (called elsewhere ‘wild swans’) which drew Domingo Gonsales to the moon in the romance by Bp. F. Godwin (see quot. a 1633).
[1601Holland Pliny I. 281 The Geese there, be all white; but lesse of bodie than from other parts: and there they be called Ganzæ.] a1633[Godwin] Man in the Moone (1638) 27 All my Gansa's were not of sufficient strength to carry him. Ibid. 41 My Ganza's. 1648Wilkins Math. Magick ii. Dædalus vii. 202 Others..have conjectured a possibility of being conveyed through the air by the help of fowls; to which purpose the fiction of the Ganzas, is the most pleasant and probable. 1652Bp. Hall Invis. World i. §7. 146 Men, who, as if upon Domingo Gonsales his engine, they had been mounted by his Ganzaes from the Moon to the Empyreall heaven. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 782 They are but idle Dreams and Fancies, And savour strongly of the Ganzas. 1668H. More Div. Dial. I. 531 O that the invention of the Gansaws were once perfected, that I might make my first Visit to our Neighbours in the Moon! 1813[see cuneal a.]. |
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