单词 | church door |
释义 | church doorn. The outer door of a church, formerly as the prescribed or traditional place for celebrating marriage, baptism, etc., doing penance, posting notices, and carrying out various other public acts. Cf. kirk door n. at kirk n. Compounds 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > door > [noun] church doorOE kirk doorc1175 OE Laws: Grið (Nero) xiii. §2. 471 Se þe man ofslehð binnan cyricderum [perh. read cyricdurum], sylle þære cyrican cxx scillinga be Norðengla lage. a1225 MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 73 (MED) Mon scule childre fulhten and heore godfaderes and heore godmoderes scullen onswerie for hem et þe chirche dure. c1330 Lai le Freine in Smith Coll. Stud. Mod. Langs. (1929) 10 iii. 5 (MED) Þe maiden..ȝede hir to þe chirche dore [and left there an infant]. c1405 (c1387–95) G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. (Hengwrt) (2003) l. 462 Housbondes at chirche dore she hadde fyue. 1446 Recantation John Bredon of Coventry f. 91 (MED) My billes that I made to be set vpon the chirche dores..promysed to delyuer the people of this same citee fro the thraldom of Pharao. a1500 (?a1450) Gesta Romanorum (Harl. 7333) (1879) 276 She made to be wryte vp on the chirche-dore..theise wordes. 1574 J. Whitgift Def. Aunswere to Admon. ix. 485 Likewyse for marriage he commeth backe agayne into the body of the Churche, and for baptisme vnto the Churche doore. 1614 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 170 For makinge two holes in stones for the sclotes goinge in our church dore. 1678 N. Wanley Wonders Little World vi. xxix. §29. 619/2 Bills set upon the Church-doors to inquire for things lost. 1705 W. Nicolson London Diaries 30 Dec. (1985) 343 There have been Collections at the Church-Doors for the..poor children. 1790 E. Gibbon Misc. Wks. (1796) III. 456 A monitory, or summons, to appear in fifteen days, was affixed on the church doors. 1824 W. Irving Tales of Traveller II. 19 Such giggling and bantering about the church-door. 1865 Reader 23 Sept. 237/2 Joan had never been solemnly espoused at the church door. 1925 P. Smith Little Karoo 71 On a long trestle-table in front of the church door the women spread their offerings of baked meats and pastries. 1953 E. S. Grenfell in Landfall June 99 You ought to be ashamed of yourself, Tolly, never darkening a church door. 2006 N. Barber Compl. Idiot's Guide to European Hist. 49 According to legend,..Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the church door at Wittenberg, the customary way to post a topic for debate. CompoundsΚΠ 1542 T. Becon Potacion for Lent sig. I.vv Than the people gothe somewhat further vnto the chyrch doreward, and there stondeth styll. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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