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Lotus-eater. World English Historical Dictionary

Lotus-eater. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1903, rev. 2024. Lotus-eater Also lotos-. a. One of the LOTOPHAGI. b. transf. One who gives himself up to dreamy and luxurious ease.

1 1832.  Tennyson (title), The Lotos-eaters.

2 1838.  Thirlwall, Greece, II. xii. 95. The fable of the Lotus-eaters.

3 1847.  W. E. Forster, 27 Aug., in T. W. Reid, Life (1888), I. vii. 209. He [Carlyle] is busy sleeping, and declares himself lazy as a lotos-eater.

4 1856.  R. A. Vaughan, Mystics (1860), I. 22. So those spiritual Lotos-eaters will only … hearken what the inner spirit sings, There is no joy but calm.

5 1893.  Times, 30 Dec., 9/3. A summer like that of 1893 may be all very well for the lotus-eater, but is a calamity to people who have to get their living out of English land.

6   Similarly Lotus-eating vbl. sb. and ppl. a.

7 1861.  Wilson & Geikie, Mem. E. Forbes, vi. 165. Day-dreaming and such Lotus-eating idleness as befits the intellectual Castle of Indolence.

8 1883.  F. M. Crawford, Mr. Isaacs, 5. The attractive waters of lotus-eating Saratoga.

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