| 单词 | easter reckoning |
| 释义 | > as lemmasEaster reckoning Easter reckoning n. (a) a payment made at Easter to the incumbent of a parish in return for administration of the Eucharist (now historical); (b) a method for calculating the date of Easter. ΚΠ 1615 in H. Fishwick Hist. Garstang (1878) i. ii. 88 The Easter dueties and paymts att Easter commonlie called the Easter Reckonings. a1708 R. Davies Acct. Convincem., Exercises, Services & Trav. (1710) 133 I told him, that his Clerk had been with me from him, for that which he called Easter-Reckonings... He said, I owed him for several Years for the Sacrament. 1880 W. Smith & S. Cheetham Dict. Christian Antiq. II. 1387/2 The epoch of the ecclesiastical year..was prescribed by the requirements of the Easter reckoning. 1922 Eng. Hist. Rev. 37 477 The date on which this view is based is discussed in detail and shown to be more probably of the year 857, which destroys its value as evidence for the Easter reckoning. 1998 L. Bunce Idea of Property in 17th-cent. Eng. ii. 54 Besides their tithes, they took money for preaching funeral sermons, and extracted Easter reckonings and Midsummer dues. 2005 C. Stancliffe in P. Fouracre New Cambr. Medieval Hist. I. xv. 420 Aidan, Finan and Colman had to keep to the Easter reckoning in use on Iona; they were not free to adopt the Roman system of reckoning. < as lemmas |
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