单词 | adventus |
释义 | adventusn. 1. Originally Roman History. The ceremonial entry and reception of an emperor, pope, king, or other ruler or religious leader, into a city, town, institution, etc.; (also) a similar ceremony celebrating the arrival of a saint's relics.Recorded earliest in attributive use in adventus type (see Compounds 1). ΚΠ 1848 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 4 263 One of the rarest [coins] is of Carausius in silver, of the Adventus type. 1860 F. Hobler Rec. Rom. Hist. exhib. on Coins I. 179 Were it not that Vespasian had already been in Rome.., this might be considered as representing his adventus. 1907 Papers Brit. School Rome 4 237 A triumphal procession, as on the panel..showing the adventus of M. Aurelius. 1979 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 33 p. viii/1 (list of illustrations) Adventus of the relics of SS. Luke and Andrew. 1998 P. F. Cuneo Art & Politics Early Mod. Germany iv. 152 In Charles's 1515 adventus to Bruges.., various tableaux and floats made reference to specific political and civic concerns. 2015 R. M. Jensen in L. M. Jefferson & R. M. Jensen Art of Empire i. 31 From the time of Constantine I onward, the ancient triumph celebration appears to have become transformed into an imperial adventus. 2. British History. The arrival of the first Anglo-Saxon settlers in post-Roman Britain; (also) the historical period associated with this. Short for adventus Saxonum n. ΚΠ 1927 E. K. Chambers Arthur of Brit. vi. 178 The Adventus is only a conventional era. It was certainly not the first appearance of Saxons in the island. 1941 Engl. Hist. Rev. 56 370 Bede..deduced..that the battle [of Mons Bandonicus] took place forty-four years after the ‘adventus’. 1990 Haskins Soc. Jrnl. 2 2 His [sc. Vortigern's] reign is a key element in chronological calculations of the adventus. 1994 N. J. Higham Engl. Conquest v. 122 The problem of reconciling such a date for the appeal with other evidence for the adventus is unsurmountable. 2014 F. F. Johnson Hengest, Gwrtheyrn & Chronol. Post-Rom. Brit. ix. 82 As..this source had a known motivation for writing its particular version of the adventus, the migration it portrays is not necessarily historical. Compounds C1. attributive (in sense 1); spec. (and in earliest use) with reference to a coin or medal struck to commemorate the adventus of a Roman emperor. ΚΠ 1848 Jrnl. Brit. Archaeol. Assoc. 4 263 One of the rarest [coins] is of Carausius in silver, of the Adventus type. 1879 Hist. Berwickshire Naturalists' Club 8 367 Among the interesting coins, we have..several of the Adventus coins of Hadrian. 1944 Art Bull. 26 220/2 The Entry on Palm Sunday and the imperial Adventus procession appear as interchangeable concepts. 1960 Jrnl. Rom. Stud. 50 263 In the adventus-panel from the great Trajanic frieze..the Amazonian figure who marches by the Emperor's side is Virtus. 1990 M. McCormick Eternal Victory i. 28 It is only natural..that adventus medallions be better attested than those associated with imperial victories. 2015 S. McFadden in S. McFadden & M. Jones Art of Empire vi. 118/2 We..see an image of the emperor in a chariot..in the adventus scenes of the Arches of Galerius and Constantine. C2. adventus ceremony n. a ceremony marking the adventus of an emperor, pope, etc. ΚΠ 1940 Rev. Relig. Mar. 274 The Roman Adventus ceremony the symbolic importance of which can still be recognized from the frequency of its representation in Roman art. 1978 Speculum 53 205 The adventus ceremonies of Carolingian times..were reserved for the might and especially kings. 2013 D. Potter Constantine the Emperor ii. vi. 60 The neighboring panels show the final battle, the submission of the barbarians and the imperial adventus ceremony. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1848 |
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