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sodality|səʊˈdælɪtɪ|
[a. F. sodalité or ad. L. sodālitas, -itātem fellowship, brotherhood, fraternity, f. sodālis mate, fellow, boon-companion.]
1. Association or confederation with others; brotherhood, companionship, fellowship.
1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 168 A participation,..combination, or sodalitie with the Iesuits to ouerthrow our countrie. 1609Bible (Douay) Eccl. iv. comm., If the Father, the Sonne, and the Holie Ghost come withal, this sodalitie is not soone broken. 1655–60Stanley Hist. Philos. (1687) 389/1 Of Friendship there are four kinds: Sodality, Affinity, Hospitality, Erotick. 1865Reader 7 Oct. 392/2 That literary social sodality by which France had been distinguished for nearly a century. 1888Chambers's Jrnl. 7 Jan. 2 Massinger's claim to the sodality of the craft..might perhaps be considered as of the genuine order.
2. In the Roman Catholic Church, a religious guild or brotherhood established for purposes of devotion or mutual help or action; the body of persons forming such a society.
(a)1600W. Watson Decacordon (1602) 25 [The secular priests] sought no establishing of houses, Colledges, sodalities, societies, or corporations. 1629Wadsworth Pilgr. iii. 18 The priuiledge of this sodality is that they haue graces, rosaries,..and hallowed graines from his holinesse. 1664H. More Myst. Iniq. xx. 76 By being incorporated into this or that holy Sodality or Fraternity. 1716M. Davies Athen. Brit. I. 77 The Jansenistical-Romanists..have but very little to do with those little offices, or Sodalities, with their Indulgences. 1832Archaeol. XXIV. 134 The monks of St. Swithin's..and those of New Minster had a sodality among themselves. 1893J. Fahey Hist. Kilmacduagh 443 The extension of religious sodalities in the several parishes of his diocese.
attrib.1881Mem. Stonyhurst Coll. 41 note, The body of the martyr..now lies under the altar of the Sodality Chapel.
(b)1628in Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. I. i. 114 The Sodalitie of the Chapelet of Our Lady. 1667in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. III. 63 He was admitted into the sodality of our B: Lady. 1846J. Morris in Pollen Life (1896) ii. 45, I should like very much to be enrolled in your Sodality of the Living Rosary. 1889Tablet 14 Dec. 946 The Sodality of the Immaculate Conception.
b. A chapel set apart for or used by a religious sodality.
1667in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. III. 66 He [was] obserued when he thought himself to be alone in the sodality to sprinkle..water vppon the grauestones. 1679Trial of White, & other Jesuits 11 To preach in the Sodality of the English Seminary. 1725R. Plowden in Foley Rec. Eng. Prov. S.J. VII. Introd. p. xl, With much ado, we saved the Church, the Sodality, and that wing where the kitchen is.
3. A society, association, or fraternity of any kind.
1633Parthenia Sacra 180 Sodalities of al sorts & conditions whatsoeuer either Secular or Ecclesiastical. 1699R. L'Estrange Erasm. Colloq. (1725) 262 To see with what Tenderness the Seraphick Sodality wash'd the Body. 1737L. Clarke Hist. Bible viii. 572 Others hold, that they were called Herodians, because they constituted a Sodality erected in the Honour of Herod. 1805Murphy Tacitus I. 184 To create this new sodality the names of the most eminent citizens..were drawn by lot. 1855Motley Dutch Rep. Introd. xiv. (1866) 46 There were also military sodalities of musketeers, crossbowmen, archers, swordsmen, in every town. |