单词 | ephod |
释义 | ephodn. 1. A Jewish priestly vestment, without sleeves, slit at the sides below the armpits, fastened with buckles at the shoulders, and by a girdle at the waist. The high-priest's ephod was of ‘gold, purple, scarlet and fine-twined linen (byssus)’; that worn by others was of linen. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > ephod rochetc1230 ephod1382 chasublec1430 overbody coat1535 superhumeral1595 1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Exod. xxv. 7 Gemmes to anowrn ephoth, that is, a preestis ouermest clothing, that we cleepen a coope. 1611 Bible (King James) 2 Sam. vi. 14 Dauid was girded with a linnen Ephod . View more context for this quotation a1770 T. Chatterton Compl. Wks. (1971) I. 404 The bloody Son of Jesse.. made himself an Ephod to his Mind. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine (1858) iv. 205 (note) ‘Bring hither the Ephod,’ the priestly cape, dressed in which the High-priest delivered the oracle. 2. transferred. A typical priestly garment; †hence used symbolically for ‘the priestly office’, ‘clerical influence’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > vestments > outer garments > [noun] > ephod > non-Jewish ephod1596 1596 M. Drayton Mortimeriados sig. L1 The Ephod made a cloake to couer gayne. 1647 N. Bacon Hist. Disc. Govt. v. 20 What the Ephod could not, the Sword wrapt up therein should. 1853 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes (1854) I. v. 44 Many a good dinner did Charles Honeyman lose by assuming that unlucky ephod [i.e. wearing the surplice in the pulpit]. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1382 |
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