cancrine

形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

形容词 adj.
  1. Of or pertaining to crabs. rare
  2. Palindromic; reading the same forwards or backwards.
    — […] the prodigious variety of ſo many kinds of verſe, Leonine, Alexandrine, Acroſtic, Chronologic, Hieroglyphic, Cancrine, Croſs-formed, Labyrinthic, Pyramidal, and a thouſand other follies […]
  3. Of or pertaining to reading something backwards. broadly
    — Even then there must have been a touch of profanity in such cancrine exhibitions; for if repeating the Lord’s Prayer backwards has been considered in all Christian ages as part of the means to bring Satan to the side of the repeater, it may be fairly supposed that the same sort of ignoble trifling with King David would bring company little more desirable among the audience who could listen to it with some pleasure, and possibly a little apprehension.

词形变化

more cancrine comparative most cancrine superlative

词源

From Latin cancer (“crab”) + -īnus, as if from *cancrīnus. The poetry sense comes from the fact that most species of crab can walk sideways, either left or right.
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