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单词 trental
释义 trental|ˈtrɛntəl|
Also 4–5 (9 Hist.) trentale, 4–6 -alle, 5 -ayl, -el, -elle, (trintal), 5–7 trentall, (6 treigntalle).
[ad. med.(eccl.)L. trentāle (12th c. in Du Cange), f. pop.L. *trenta, *trinta (:—L. trīgintā, whence F. trente thirty) + -āl-is, -āle, -al1. So OF. trentel (12th c. in Godef.).]
1. A set of thirty requiem masses, said on the same day or on different days; also, the payment made for this. arch. and Hist.
13..Minor Poems fr. Vernon MS. xxxiv. heading, Þe Pope trental.Ibid. lf. 303 Here bygunnet þe guldene trental þat ouȝte be loued swyþe wel. [Cf. xxxiv. 126 Let sei þeos Masses bi ȝoure hestes Wiþ-Inne þe vtaues of þe ffestes.]c1386Chaucer Sompn. T. 16 Trentals seyde he, deliueren fro penaunce Hir freendes soules.c1420Anturs of Arth. 218 Were thritty trentales done, By-twene vnder and none.1487Paston Lett. III. 463 Every weke folowing unto my monthes mynde oon trentall, and iij. trentalles at my monthes mynde.1530Lyndesay Test. Papyngo 695 With gret blys, bury we sall ȝour bonis, Syne trentalls twenty trattyll all at onis.1531Wills & Inv. N.C. (Surtees 1908) 127 Three treigntalles of masse.1593Bell Motives Romish Faith (1605) 24 For which Masses, Diriges, and Trentals, huge summes of money are giuen daily.1694Motteux Rabelais (1737) V. 221 Obits, Trentals, and Services for the Dead.1813Scott Rokeby v. xxvii, Let mass be said, and trentals read.1881Bridgett Hist. Holy Eucharist II. xi. 150 St. Gregory's Trental..consisted of ten different masses three times repeated... According to..others they were said in thirty consecutive days, and even by thirty priests in one day.
b. transf. A set or series of thirty. Obs. rare.
1508Kennedie Flyting w. Dunbar 319 Thow says for thame few psaltris, psalmis, or creidis. Bot geris me tell thair trentalis of misdeidis.1586P. Wyot Diary Oct. in Chanter Sk. Lit. Hist. Barnstaple (1866) 92 On St. Luke's day this yere there was a trental of sermons at Pylton.
c. loosely. An elegy or dirge. Obs.
1648Herrick Hesper., Dirge upon Death of B. Stuart, Soft silence let us have, While we this Trentall sing about thy grave.Ibid., To Julia, Deare Julia, thou shalt have A trentall sung by virgins o're thy grave.
2. Used as = month's mind, the commemoration service on the thirtieth day after burial. arch.
1659H. L'Estrange Alliance Div. Off. 302 The thirtieth [day] (called therefore..in old English the Months-mind, in after times the Trental).1860Reade Cloister & H. ci, The convent will keep his trentals, but will feast, not fast.
3. attrib. and Comb.
1471in Somerset Medieval Wills (1901) 222 Item, to Sir John Cerne to say a trentall mass for me, 2s. 6d.1591Troub. Raigne K. John (1611) 60 The arch prowd titled Priest of Italy,..Is busied now with trentall obsequies,..To ease their soules in painefull purgatorie.
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