geas

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A (generally magical) vow, obligation or injunction placed upon someone to do or not do something, which typically brings harm if violated and blessings if obeyed.
    — It can send us where it will with a task laid upon us—a geas, if you like.
  2. A mystical compulsion.
    — The memory came upon him like a geas, overwhelming his revulsion, numbing his heart.

词形变化

geasa plural geases plural

词源

Borrowed, like English geis, from Irish geis (“injunction; taboo, prohibition, spell”). The pronunciation resembles Irish geis, though the spelling matches its synonymous but heterophonous alternative form geas.
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