| 释义 |
vesperal, a. and n.|ˈvɛspərəl|
[ad. late L. vesperāl-is, f. L. vespera: see prec. Cf. F. vesperal n.]
A. adj.
a. Vespertinal, vespertine.
b. Pertaining to vespers or the vesper-bell. rare.
1623Cockeram i, Vesperall, of or belonging to the euening. [Hence in Blount.] 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. III. 135 Amid the vesperal melodies of the steeple sounding⁓holes. 1887L. Johnson Incense in Ireland (1897) 60 Pensive and solitary old age finds Calm in the vesperal, mild air. 1951V. Nabokov Speak, Memory iv. 47 The day would take hours to fade, and everything..would be kept in a state of infinite vesperal suspense.
B. n.
1. Eccl. An office-book containing the psalms, canticles, anthems, etc., with their musical settings, used at vespers; an antiphonary containing the vesper-chants.
1869Life Marg. M. Hallahan (1870) 431 They were presented with a Vesperal and Processional. 1884Grove's Dict. Music IV. 257 The most correct Vesperals now in print are those published at Mechlin in 1870, and at Ratisbon in 1875.
2. An evening song.
In quot. as the title of a poem.
1896E. Dowson Verses 39 Vesperal. ‘Strange grows the river on the sunless evenings!’ |