oneiro-
combining form
indicating a dream
⇒
oneirocritic
Origin
from Greek oneiros dreamoneiro-
combining form
- relating to dreams or dreaming表示“梦”; “梦的”：
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oneiromancy.
词源
from Greek oneiros 'dream'.
1653 R. Sanders Physiogn. 202This Chapter of *Oneirocracie, that is to say, the judgment of dreams.
Ibid. 214Oneirocracie is the prudence of presaging future contingencies by dreams, for the welfare of man.
1976 Proc. ClassicalAssoc. LXXIII. 20Intellectual constructions such as onirocrisy and physiognomony readily degenerate into the collection of paradoxa, upon which the temperament of the age commonly puts a religious interpretation.
1804 T. Trotter Drunkenness i. 11*Oneirodynia, disturbed sleep, which comprehends sleepwalking and nightmare.
1822–34 Good's Study Med. (ed. 4) III. 49He ..makes Vesania the genus, and arranges melancholia, mania, and even oneirodynia, as separate species under it. [ Parr]
1834 Southey Doctor lxxvi. II. 343Artemidorus, not the *oneirologist, but the great philosopher at the Court of the Emperor Sferamond. [ See also oneirocrite.]
1818 T. McCrie Life Melville I. ii. 80Melville was a believer in *Oneirology and expert in the interpretation of dreams.
1653 R. Sanders Physiogn. 225The Queen related the dream to an *Oneiromancer.
1952 G. Sarton Hist. Sci. I. xiv. 371There are two kinds of dreams, those of divine origin, which concern oneiromancers, and those of physiologic origin.
1652 Gaule Magastrom. 165*Oniromancy, by dreams. [ divining]
1663 J. Spencer Prodigies (1665) 297These rude observations were at last licked into an Art (Physical Oneiromancy) in which Physicians from a consideration of the dreams proceeded to a Crisis of the disposition of the person.
1871 Tyler Prim. Cult. I. 108Oneiromancy..is not unknown to the lower races.
1931 E. Jones On the Nightmare ii. iii. 95This cure for disease by Incubation—known as oneiromancy—was practised in Scotland and Ireland... Here the person slept in the skin of a sacrificed sheep, just as the worshippers of Ammon did in Thebes.
1935 J. S. Lincoln Dream in Primitive Cultures i. 3At Nineveh was a collection of books on oneiromancy or dream interpretation.
1653 R. Sanders Physiogn. 221The dream to the *Oneiromantist.
1652 Gaule Magastrom. xxvi,The dusky *oniropolist or dream-teller will affright me with nocturnall ghosts and goblins.
a1693 . [ see oneirocrite]
1652 Gaule Magastrom. 269Carpocrates..used incantations..paredrials or demoniacal assessours, *oniropompists or dream-artists.
1727 Bailey vol. II, *Oneiroscopist.
1889 Mrs. E. Lynn Linton in Fortn. Rev. Mar. 368made himself the oneiroscopist for the occasion. [ He]
oneiro-
before vowels oneir-, word-forming element meaning "dream," from Greek oneiros "a dream," from PIE *oner- "dream."
ORIGIN: from Greek oneiros a dream + -o-
oneiro-
combining form
see oneir-
see oneir-
oneiro-oneir-
Prefix
- dream
Etymology
From Ancient Greek ὄνειρος (óneiros, “dream”).
Derived terms
English words prefixed with oneiro-