| 单词 | court of christianity |
| 释义 | > as lemmasCourt of Christianity Court of Christianity n. now historical and rare an ecclesiastical or religious court (cf. Court Christian n.); spec. a court belonging to a rural deanery (see sense 4); a ruridecanal court. [After post-classical Latin curia Christianitatis (1573 in the passage translated in quot. 1573, or earlier); compare Anglo-Norman curt de christeneté (early 14th cent. or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > [noun] chaptera1300 Court Christianc1405 spiritual court1481 bum-court1544 Court of Christianity1573 church court1644 court1864 1573 G. Gifford tr. W. Fulke Prælections sig. M.vv To acknowledge it in the courts of Christianitie as they call them [L. in curijs quas vocant Christianitatis], in which the popes lawe is exercised. 1835 W. Dansey Horæ Decanicæ Rurales II. 41 Our ruridecanal conventions..were acknowledged..as rural courts of Christianity. 1956 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Antiquaries Ireland 86 185 In 1403..Mary widow of Thomas Comyn claimed in the Court of Christianity the advowson of the church of St. Sampson's of Balygriffyn. < as lemmas |
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