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Bethesda|bɛˈθɛzdə|
[The name of a healing pool mentioned at John 5. 2–4, perh. representing Bethzatha, and understood to mean ‘house of grace’.]
Occasionally (chiefly in the nineteenth cent.) adopted by Methodists, Baptists, Independents, etc., as the name of a particular chapel or meeting-house. Hence also as a synonym for ‘Nonconformist chapel’.
1857Trollope Barchester T. I. vii. 100 They would..stick him up in some new Sion or Bethesda, and put the cathedral quite out of fashion. 1911A. Bennett Odd Volume 14 Ye must come to th' Bethesda down yon, on Sunday morning, and hear the word o' God. 1953Dylan Thomas Under Milk Wood (1954) 20 Look, over Bethesda grave-stones one hoots and swoops and catches a mouse by Hannah Reese, Beloved Wife. 1976D. Morgan Thomas the Fish xi. 126 Bethesda (a split from Zion) had a sermon about the Congregation. |