| 单词 | altar-thegn |
| 释义 | > as lemmasaltar-thegn altar-thegn n. [after Old English wēofod-þegn (compare quot. OE)] historical (with reference to the Anglo-Saxon period) the priest serving at an altar; a mass-priest.Quot. 1720 is a translation of quot. OE. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > celebrating mass mass-priesteOE masserOE priestOE rood priest1516 massing priest1554 missara1560 sacrificer1563 Christ-maker1571 sacrificule1604 conficient1614 celebrant1624 missalian1624 missalist1624 waiter at the altar1648 altar-thegn1720 president1945 OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) ii. xxxix. 340 Gyf hwa weofodþen [L. altaris ministrum] afylle, sy he utlah wið God & wið men.] 1720 J. Johnson Coll. Eccl. Laws Church of Eng. I. sig. Ee2 If one murder an Altar-Thane, let him be outlaw'd with God and Man. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Altar-thane in our ancient law-books, denotes a priest or parson of a parish. 1850 F. A. Trevelyan Lect. Hist. Eng. I. x. 164 Next to kings, the clergy, who were called mass-priests, or altar-thanes, were most thought of. 1913 S. O. Addy Church & Manor 167 The laws speak of the mass-thane, or altar-thane, and the world-thane, or secular thane. 1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. vi. 245 The mass thegns and altar thegns of the legal codes were men of some standing. < as lemmas |
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