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# [[sulphur|Sulphur]]. |
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# The [[sulphur]] of [[Hell]]; [[Hell]], [[damnation]]. |
# The [[sulphur]] of [[Hell]]; [[Hell]], [[damnation]]. |
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#*{{quote-book|year=1913|author={{w|Joseph C. Lincoln}}|chapter=7 |
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|title=[http://openlibrary.org/works/OL5535161W Mr. Pratt's Patients] |
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|passage=I made a speaking trumpet of my hands and commenced to whoop “Ahoy!” and “Hello!” at the top of my lungs. […] The Colonel woke up, and, after asking what in '''brimstone''' was the matter, opened his mouth and roared “Hi!” and “Hello!” like the bull of Bashan.}} |
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# {{context|archaic|lang=en}} Used ''attributively'' as an intensifier in exclamations. |
# {{context|archaic|lang=en}} Used ''attributively'' as an intensifier in exclamations. |
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#*: You are a '''brimstone''' pig. You're a head of swine! |
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#* '''1852–3''', {{w|Charles Dickens}}, ''{{w|Bleak House}}'' |
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# The [[butterfly]] {{taxlink|Gonepteryx rhamni|species}} of the [[Pieridae]] family. |
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#*: You're a '''brimstone''' idiot. |
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Revision as of 02:58, 5 October 2013
English
Etymology
From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle English (deprecated template usage) brimston, (deprecated template usage) bremston, corrupted forms of (deprecated template usage) brinston, (deprecated template usage) brenston, (deprecated template usage) bernston, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old English (deprecated template usage) brynstān (literally “burn-stone”), equivalent to Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "brian" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E., or Lua error in Module:parameters at line 290: Parameter 1 should be a valid language or etymology language code; the value "burn" is not valid. See WT:LOL and WT:LOL/E.. Cognate with (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Scots (deprecated template usage) brunstane, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Icelandic (deprecated template usage) brennisteinn, (deprecated template usage) [etyl] German (deprecated template usage) Bernstein. Compare also Template:l/en. More at Template:l/en, Template:l/en.
Once a synonym for "sulphur," the word is now restricted to Biblical usage.
Adjective
brimstone
- Composed of or resembling brimstone; about or pertaining to Hell.
- '[W]ho walked up Aldersgate-street to some chapel where she comforts herself with brimstone doctrine.' — Charles Dickens, The Uncommercial Traveller
- '[A] cheerful ballad about a murderer who was afraid to go to bed in the dark because he saw certain brimstone flames around him.' — Thomas Hardy Tess of the d'Urbevilles
- '[...] he gave vent to a succession of sounds, not unlike the drawing of some eight or ten dozen of long corks, and again asserted his brimstone birth and parentage with great distinctness.' — Charles Dickens, Barnaby Rudge
- 'I wish your brimstone grandmother was here, and he'd shave her head off.' — Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- 'From his brimstone bed at break of day / A walking the Devil is gone.' — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Noun
brimstone (countable and uncountable, plural brimstones)
- Sulphur.
- The sulphur of Hell; Hell, damnation.
- Lua error in Module:quote at line 2959: Parameter 1 is required.
- (deprecated template usage) (archaic) Used attributively as an intensifier in exclamations.
- 1852–3, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- You are a brimstone pig. You're a head of swine!
- 1852–3, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
- You're a brimstone idiot.
- 1852–3, Charles Dickens, Bleak House
Translations
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Quotations
- 'Then the Lord rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord out of heaven.' — Genesis, 19:24, King James Version
- 'And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that {are} with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone.' — Ezekiel, 38:22 King James Version
- 'For griefe thereof, and diuelish despight, / From his infernall fournace forth he threw / Huge flames, that dimmed all the heauens light, / Enrold in duskish smoke and brimstone blew.' — Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene
- 'Till, as a signal giv'n, th' uplifted Spear / Of their great Sultan waving to direct / Thir course, in even ballance down they light / On the firm brimstone, and fill all the Plain; / A multitude.' — John Milton, Paradise Lost
- 'Weel I wot I wad be broken if I were to gie sic weight to the folk that come to buy our pepper and brimstone, and suchlike sweetmeats.' — Walter Scott, The Antiquary
- '[W]hen he [the Devil] is aweary of vice, and aweary of virtue, used up as to brimstone, and used up as to bliss [...]' — Charles Dickens,Hard Times
- 'Don't think, young man, that we go to the expense of flower of brimstone and molasses, just to purify them.' — Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby
- 'The brimstone, too, which burns there in such prodigious quantity fills all hell with its intolerable stench.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- 'But the sulphurous brimstone which burns in hell is a substance which is specially designed to burn for ever and for ever with unspeakable fury.' — James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man