| 释义 |
missioner|ˈmɪʃənə(r)|
[f. mission + -er1.]
One sent on a mission, a missionary; esp. (in early use) a Jesuit missionary. In mod. use chiefly, one who conducts or is in charge of a parochial mission (in some dioceses, a permanent clerical officer).
1654W. Mountague Devout Ess. ii. v. §3. 94 The missioners of France..seek to establish this practice in all places where they teach, that persons of all conditions, make some short address to God, at the striking of every clock. 1687Dryden Let. to Sir G. Etherege 13 Like mighty missioner you come Ad Partes Infidelium. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. II. 120 Other four were sent as itinerant Preachers and Missioners into all the Counties of England. 1771Goldsm. Hist. Eng. I. 51 The pope enjoined his missioner to remove the pagan idols. 1849Rock Ch. of Fathers I. iii. 274 The British style of..illumination..was carried by British missioners far to the north. 1862H. Furniss Confession §xv. 16 One night during the Mission he went into the church. He stood near the platform where the missioner was preaching. 1894Baring-Gould Deserts S. France II. 76 St. Fronto,..probably a missioner of the third century. 189619th Cent. Aug. 213 Our [the Jesuits'] position as theologians, missioners, preachers.
†b. fig. (cf. missionary B. 1 b, 2.) Obs.
1687Dryden Hind & P. ii. 565 Poems (1743) I. 285 Those are the Manufactures we export; And these the Missioners [1st ed. Missionaries] our zeal has made. 1751Eliza Heywood Betsy Thoughtless II. 215 As every little circumstance..seems a missioner from fate. 1793Burke On policy of Allies Wks. VII. 146 You will have a missioner of peace and order in every parish. |