单词 | church-out |
释义 | church-outv. Now historical. transitive (in passive). To be expelled from or rejected by the church.In quot. 1606: to be buried outside a church. ΚΠ 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions Eng. To Rdr. Spencer..Found next the doore Church-outed neere, And yet a Knight, Arch-Lauriat Heere. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 41 Thus Church-outed by the Prelats, hence may appear the right I have to meddle in these matters. 1885 J. B. Heard Old & New Theol. xviii. 339 Neglected truths, church-outed from the camp of orthodoxy, come back like Coriolanus from Veii to Rome. 1902 M. J. F. McCarthy Five Years in Ireland, 1895–1900 (ed. 8) xxviii. 429 Such a body of men should be entrusted with some power, instead of being ‘church-outed’ as the Roman Catholic laymen are in their own church. 2005 G. S. de Krey London & Restoration, 1659–1863 ii. 87 The Church of England was itself as much a victim of the Uniformity Act in London as the clergy who were ‘church-outed’ by it. Derivatives church-ˈouted adj. ΚΠ 1906 M. J. F. McCarthy Church & State in Eng. & Wales, 1829–1906 xvii. 483 Without diminishing the powers of the bishops and priests, or increasing those of the ‘church-outed’ laity. 1995 L. Cable Carnal Desire 207 The church-outed Milton makes his antiprelatical tracts a surrogate ‘for the apocalyptic exhortation he would otherwise have thundered’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1606 |
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