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a mythical beast, half griffin and half horse, supposedly the offspring of a griffin and a filly.
* 1732 , July 18, ,
* 1753 , November 12, , published with English translation in 1779 in
* 1800 Dec., Sir Richard Phillips,
* 1831 ,
hippogriff
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Alternative forms
* hippogryphNoun
(en noun)The Works of the Rev. Jonathan Swift, D.D. , volume 12published 1801, page 478:
- To talk of being able to ride with stirrups, is trifling: get on Pegasus, bestride the hippogryph , or mount the white nag in the Revelation.
Miscellaneous Works of the Late Philip Dormer Stanhope , second edition, volume 3, lettre LXXIII, pages 298–299:
- Je crains done qu'il faudra que nous nous contentions de quelque moyen plus simple et plus facile, comme d'un enchanteur à gages, un hippogriffe , ou au moins de quelque génie bienfaisant, …
- So I doubt we must be content with some more simple and easy method, such as a magician in our pay, a hippogryph , or at least some kind genius, …
The Monthly magazine , Volume 10, No. 66, page 407:
- Yet the work is surely not a mere map of the hippogryffon wanderings of some disordered imagination…
The Edinburgh Review, or Critical Journal , volume 52, page 164:
- I imagine a Hippogryph'. The '''Hippogryph''' is at once the object of the act and the act itself. Abstract the one, the other has no existence: deny me the consciousness of the ' Hippogryph , you deny me the consciousness of the imagination; I am conscious of zero; I am not conscious at all.