| 释义 |
nones|nəʊnz|
Also 5 nonys.
[In sense 1, a. F. nones (12th c.), or ad. L. nōnæ (acc. nōnās), fem. pl. of nōnus ninth. In sense 2, pl. of none n.: cf. matins, vespers.]
1. Rom. Antiq. The ninth day (by inclusive reckoning) before the Ides of each month, being thus the 7th of March, May, July, and October, and the 5th of all other months.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. iii. 1031 Thai been ripe atte Jules nonys. [1485Caxton St. Wenefryde 12 The day of the thyrdde Nonas of Nouembre.] 1555Eden Decades 5 The daye before the nones of Aprel, he came to the courte him selfe. 1560J. Daus tr. Sleidane's Comm. 461 b, About y⊇ nones of November..the Lantgraves daughter died. 1601Holland Pliny I. 224 From the rising of the Dolphin starre, vnto the day before the Nones of lanuarie. 1631Weever Anc. Funeral Mon. 811 The day before the Nones of May, 1196. 1679Moxon Math. Dict. 26 The Roman Month its several days divides By reckoning backwards, Calends, Nones, and Ides. 1840Penny Cycl. XIII. 173/1 The mode of fixing any particular day was by saying that it was so many days before the kalends, nones, or ides, next immediately following. 1870Eng. Gilds (E.E.T.S.) 181 Given at Lincoln, on the Nones of September, a.d. 1337.
2. Eccl. A daily office, originally said at the ninth hour of the day (about 3 p.m.), but in later use sometimes earlier.
1709J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. 101 That the same Liturgy of prayers be used both at Nones and Vespers. [Note. Nones was what we call three o'clock in the afternoon.] 1805Southey Madoc in W. xiii, From noon till nones The brethren sate. 1838Longfellow Drift-wood Pr. Wks. 1886 I. 395 After this we sang the service of mid-day,..and slept, and got up again, and sang Nones. 1865Swinburne Poems & Ball., St. Dorothy 282 It were good game betwixen night and nones For one to sit and hearken to such saws. 1873Dixon Two Queens i. iii. I. 20 The Virgin was supposed to love and listen to their nones and vespers. |