单词 | confessio |
释义 | confession. = confession n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > shrine > [noun] > of saint > martyr or confessor martyrion1651 martyry1711 confessio1830 the world > life > death > disposal of corpse > burial > grave or burial-place > types of tomb > [noun] > monumental > of saint, martyr, or holy man feretoryc1330 samadh1828 confessio1830 1830–38 J. Britton Dict. Archit. & Archæol. (1838) 96/1 Confessio, a term applied by early ecclesiastical writers to the sepulchres of martyrs and confessors. 1830–38 J. Britton Dict. Archit. & Archæol. (1838) 96/1 Confessio has been used to denote a crypt, beneath the great altar of a church in which the relics and bodies of saints were buried. 1875 Encycl. Brit. III. 415/1 Beneath the altar was the confessio, a subterranean chapel, containing the body of the patron saint, and relics of other holy persons. 1959 E. A. Fisher Introd. Anglo-Saxon Archit. i. 61 These confessios are different in design and purpose from the later larger crypts underlying the whole of the chancel. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online March 2018). < n.1830 |
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