| 单词 | cottage lecture |
| 释义 | > as lemmascottage lecture cottage lecture n. now historical a sermon or other religious address preached in a private home rather than in a church, chapel, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > preached in the home of a layman cottage lecture1822 1822 J. Jones (title) Cottage lectures. 1828 T. S. Grimshawe Mem. L. Richmond (1829) vii. 68 His weekly labours commenced with what he called his Tuesday-night cottage lecture, from its being held successively in the cottages of the poor. 1858 ‘G. Eliot’ Janet's Repentance xi, in Scenes Clerical Life II. 200 Three sermons on Sunday, a night-school for young men on Tuesday, a cottage-lecture on Thursday. 1915 G. Hodges Henry Codman Potter ii. 31 The lay-reader took the superintendence of the Sunday School, organized a choir, and began cottage lectures in the outlying farmhouses, where he preached his own sermons. 2008 Eng. Hist. Rev. 123 1584 John Atkinson walked between eight and nine miles every Sunday to maintain a regular service in his church and two cottage lectures in outlying districts. < as lemmas |
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