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stylite

/stahy-lahyt/US // ˈstaɪ laɪt //UK // (ˈstaɪlaɪt) //

风格,风格派,风格化,风格化的

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    Ecclesiastical History.

    • : one of a class of solitary ascetics who lived on the top of high pillars or columns.

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Examples

  • A Stylite might have contented himself there; Gilliatt, more luxurious in his requirements, wanted something more commodious.

  • This old monk was St. Luke the Stylite, appearing in vision.

  • He stopped, some paces from the column, and began to examine the stylite, wiping his face meanwhile with the skirt of his toga.

  • Simeon the Stylite comes down from his pillar-top, and chaffers in the market-place with common folks.