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The Quick and the Dead is an English phrase originating in the Christian Bible and popularized by the Apostles' Creed, one of the earliest statements of faith in the Christian religion and still one of the most widely used in worship. ==Etymology== The use of the word ''quick'' in this context is an archaic one. Here, the word specifically means ''living'' or ''alive'' (a meaning still retained the idiom quickening as the moment in pregnancy when fetal movements are first felt and also in the "quick" of the fingernails.〔Definition of "quick": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quick. See esp. #14,15.〕) It is derived from the Proto-Germanic '' *kwikwaz'', which in turn was from a variant of the Proto-Indo-European form '' *gwih3wos'' – "lively, alive", from the root '' *gweih3 –'' "(to) live" (from which also comes the Latin ''vivere'' and later the Italian and Spanish ''viva'', and whose root is retained in the English words ''revive'' and ''survive'').〔Definition of "quick": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quick. See esp. the origin of the word〕 Its English meaning in later centuries shifted to "fast", "rapid", "moving, or able to move, with speed".〔Definition of "quick": http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/quick.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The quick and the dead (idiom)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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