Destroying Angelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

destroying angel (plural destroying angels)

1. Any of a group of four deadly toxic mushrooms in the Amanita genus: Amanita bisporigera, Amanita ocreata, Amanita verna, and Amanita virosa.

   Synonyms: angel of death, death angel

   • 2010 November 13, Richard Eshelman, Sophie Haydock, “Experience: I nearly died after eating wild mushrooms”, in The Guardian‎, →ISSN:

     The doctors ran some tests and confirmed I'd eaten the destroying angel. I was the third person that year to be admitted after eating one. The two before me hadn't survived.

   • 2015 November 6, Helen Macdonald, “Sex, Death and Mushrooms”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN:

     You might survive if you eat a destroying angel or death cap, but you’ll probably need a liver transplant.

2. (biblical) In the Hebrew Bible, an entity sent out by God on several occasions to punish opponents.
   • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 4, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC:

     Again, I wonder with a sudden fear whether it is likely that our good old clergyman can be wrong, and Mr. and Miss Murdstone right, and that all the angels in Heaven can be destroying angels.

   • 1885, Robert Louis Stevenson, Fanny Van de Grift Stevenson, “Story of the Destroying Angel”, in More New Arabian Nights: The Dynamiter, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., →OCLC, page 23:

     It was terrible, indeed; but so was death, the universal law. And even if the talk should wax still bolder, full of ominous silences and nods, and I should hear named in a whisper the Destroying Angels, how was a child to understand these mysteries.

   • 1914, Jack London, “The Unparalleled Invasion”, in The Strength of the Strong‎, New York: MacMillan:

     Hundred-ton guns were toys compared with the micro-organic projectiles hurled from the laboratories, the messengers of death, the destroying angels that stalked through the empire of a billion souls.

   • 2011, Biblica, Holy Bible: New International Version, Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan, →ISBN, 78:49:

     He unleashed against them his hot anger, his wrath, indignation and hostility— a band of destroying angels.

下位語

• eastern North American destroying angel (Amanita bisporigera)
• western North American destroying angel (Amanita ocreata)
• spring destroying angel, fool's mushroom (Amanita verna)
• European destroying angel (Amanita virosa)

参照

• destroying angel on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• destroying angel (Bible) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Amanita bisporigera on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Amanita ocreata on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Amanita verna on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Amanita virosa on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Amanita bisporigera on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Amanita ocreata on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Amanita verna on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons
• Category:Amanita virosa on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons