hierophant

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An ancient Greek priest who interpreted sacred mysteries, especially the priest of the Eleusinian Mysteries.
    — The exhibition of ancient statues, relics, and symbols, concealed from daily adoration (as in the Catholic festivals of this day), probably, made a main duty of the Hierophant.
  2. An interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge.
    — Poets are the hierophants of an unapprehended inspiration; the mirrors of the gigantic shadows which futurity casts upon the present; the words which express what they understand not; the trumpets which sing to battle and feel not what they inspire; the influence which is moved not, but moves. Poets are the unacknowledged legislators of the world.
  3. One who explains or makes a commentary.

词形变化

hierophants plural hierophantes plural

词汇关系

衍生词
hierophantic hierophantically
相关词
hierophany hieromnemon

词源

From Ancient Greek ἱεροφάντης (hierophántēs, from ἱερός (hierós, “holy”) + φαίνω (phaínō, “I show, make known”)).
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