单词 | clean lenten |
释义 | > as lemmasClean Lenten a. A period of fasting and penitence, beginning on Ash Wednesday and ending shortly before Easter, observed in the Christian Church in commemoration of the time Jesus spent in the wilderness. Cf. Lent n.1 2. Also in Clean Lenten in same sense. In later use chiefly with capital initial. Obsolete (Scottish in later use). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Lent > [noun] LentenOE Lent tidelOE Lentc1300 Lent timec1400 Quadragesime1483 Lent season?1490 Quadragesimac1560 Great Lent1591 Great Fasta1670 shrift-time1853 α. β. c1450 Alphabet of Tales (1904) I. 34 (MED) It happend afterward in þe lentren þat he said mes in Rome in a kurk þat hight Jerusalem.c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 1135 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 329 Þe next lentryn, quhen be-gonnyn was þe fastine.1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) x. 815 Fra the lenteryne [1489 Adv. Lentryne], that is to say, Quhill forrouth the Saint Iohnnis mes.a1500 R. Henryson tr. Æsop Fables: Fox, Wolf, & Cadger l. 2000 in Poems (1981) 77 ‘Schir,’ said the foxe, ‘it is Lentring, ȝe se; I can nocht fische.’a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 159 Off Lentren in the first mornyng.a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) viii. l. 2698 At Sayntandrewys than bad he, And held hys Lentyren in reawte.c1540 J. Bellenden in tr. H. Boece Hyst. & Cron. Scotl. sig. B.iiv Passand in the tyme of lentroun throw ye seis mediterrane ay selland thair fische.1562 N. Winȝet Certain Tractates (1888) I. 27 The ȝeirlie abstinence of fourty dayis afore Pasche, callit Lentren.1637–50 J. Row Hist. Kirk Scotl. (Wodrow Soc.) 7 On a Sabbath day in the tyme of Lentron.1686 G. Mackenzie Observ. Acts Parl. 244 This Act discharging the eating of Flesh in Lentron is in Desuetude.1735 Marquess of Huntly Cock o' the North (1935) 154 At Midlentrin Market, buy George Steel a sute of Course gray Cloth Cloas.1757 Caledonian Mercury 19 Feb. At Perth Market, commonly called, The first whole Week of Lentron.OE Homily: Sermo Bone Praedicatio (Otho B.x) in A. S. Napier Wulfstan (1883) 305 Ne næfre on lenctentide ne næfre, þonne fæsten aboden sy, þe ma, þe man mot on lenctene oððe frigedagum flæsces brucan. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Haldeð silence..in þe lenten þreo daȝes. a1250 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Nero) (1952) 10 (MED) Vre leawede breþren siggeð..ine leinten ‘laus tibi domine rex eterne glorie.’ 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 175 Efterward ine one time þanne in an-oþre, ase in lenten, oþer in ane heȝe messedaye. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. xiv. l. 81 To lene ne to lere ne lentenes to faste. c1450 (?a1400) Stanzaic Life of Christ (BL Add. 38666) (1926) l. 4398 (MED) Of quadragesme now speke we that clene lentoun callet ys..Quadragesme..begynnes that Sonday..that at masse Inuocauit me Ys sungen. 1492 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 74 I wole that the seyd prest abyde in Rome alle Lenton. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. xix. sig. g.iiii Truly for to fast, the holy tyme of Lenton. 1553 T. Becon Relikes of Rome (1563) 244 The fyrst Sonday in cleane lenton. 1616 King James VI & I Trew Law of Free Monarchies in Wks. 202 As in the law of abstaining from eating of flesh in Lenton, the king will, for examples sake, make his owne house to obserue the Law. < as lemmas |
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