单词 | christdom |
释义 | † Christdomn. Obsolete. rare. 1. The parts of the world where Christianity is the dominant religion, regarded collectively; = Christendom n. 3c.Either a phonetic shortening, or a scribal abbreviation. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > [noun] > domain of ChristendomOE Christianitya1300 Christdomc1500 husbandry1526 Christiandom1548 Christian commonweal1559 c1500 J. Lydgate Stans Puer (Ashm.) in F. J. Furnivall Queene Elizabethes Achademy (1869) i. 57 (MED) Ne no man off hym reiosynge will haue, Yn what lond of crysdome þat he commys Inne. 2. The rule or domain of Christ.Apparently an isolated use, perhaps formed for the sake of rhyme and metre. ΚΠ 1843 E. B. Barrett in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Aug. 262 They..Are slaves, without the liberty in christdom. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1500 |
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