单词 | double feast |
释义 | > as lemmasdouble feast double feast n. the designation given to the most important class of feasts in the Roman Catholic church, on which the antiphons are recited in full before and after the psalms and canticles. [Compare post-classical Latin festum duplex (frequently from 13th cent. in British sources; also in continental sources), Anglo-Norman duble feste, Middle French feste double (13th cent.; French fête double), and also post-classical Latin duplex festivitas (late 11th cent. in a British source). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > double, important double feast?c1225 Great Dayc1350 red-letter day1663 doublec1690 feria1763 Greater Feria1763 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 57 Vh fridei..haldeð silence. bute hit beo duble feste. 1440 in A. H. Thompson Visitations Relig. Houses Diocese Lincoln (1927) III. 350 Euery principale double fest. 1486 ( in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 13 Euery Sonday & euery double feest, pry[n]cipall feest, & solempne feest. 1534 tr. Lyndewode's Constit. Angliæ 25 b The feast of saint George the martyr shal be kept doble, after the maner of the more doble feaste. 1614 H. Spelman Orig. Four Terms in Eng. Wks. (1727) ii. 92 The Feast..of St. Peter and Paul on the 29th of June was a double Feast. 1778 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry II. xvi. 375 Saint Nicholas was the patron of scholars. Hence at Eton college saint Nicholas has a double feast. 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIII. 259/2 Before the 1971 simplification of the Roman Breviary, the night office of Matins (or Vigils) was composed of three nocturns for double or semi-double feasts, and one nocturn for simple feasts or ferias. < as lemmas |
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