单词 | confessionary |
释义 | confessionaryn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > confessional > [noun] shriving pew1487 shrifta1616 confessionary1669 whispering-office1704 confessional1728 box1842 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. iii. 16 He came and spake with me in a Confessionary. 1704 tr. A. de Ovalle Of Kingdom of Chile in A. Churchill & J. Churchill Coll. Voy. III. 76/1 The Confessionary is so turn'd, as the..Confessor cannot see the Woman that enters to Confess. 1792 Archaeologia 10 299 These stalls have been improperly termed confessionaries or confessionals. 2. = confession n. 8. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > crypt > [noun] > under high altar, containing relics confession1670 confessional1705 confessionary1728 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Confessional, or Confessionary, in Church-History, a Place in Churches, usually under the main Altar, wherein were deposited the Bodies of deceas'd Saints, Martyrs, and Confessors. 1848 B. Webb Sketches Continental Ecclesiol. 430 The crypt or confessionary retains an original altar. a1878 G. G. Scott Lect. Mediæval Archit. (1879) II. 29. 1881 G. G. Scott Ess. Hist. Eng. Church Archit. i. 9 In front of the altar and the confessionary was the choir of the inferior clergy and singers. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2019). confessionaryadj. Of or pertaining to confession. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > [adjective] confessionary1607 confessional1817 1607 R. Parker Scholasticall Disc. against Antichrist ii. vi. 51 Conformitie doth require of vs a confessionarie approbation of the ceremonies by subscription. 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Confessionnaire, confessionarie; belonging to, or treating of, auricular confession. 1753 Bp. R. Clayton in E. H. Palmer Desert of Exodus (1871) vi. 106 Confessionary priests used formerly to sit to hear the confessions of the pilgrims. 1864 I. Taylor in Good Words 230 A confessionary prayer. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online December 2018). < n.1669adj.1607 |
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