annunciationn.

Brit.

/əˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃn/,

/əˌnʌnʃɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S.

/əˌnənsiˈeɪʃən/

Forms: Middle English annonciacion, Middle English annunciacioun, Middle English annunciaciun, Middle English annunciatione, Middle English anounsiacion, Middle English anunciacion, Middle English–1500s annunciacion, 1500s agnunciacion, 1500s annoncyacyon, 1500s annunciacyon, 1500s–1600s annuntiation, 1500s– annunciation, 1600s–1700s anunciation; also Scottish pre-1700 annunciacioune, pre-1700 annuntiatiowne.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French annunciation; Latin annuntiation-, annuntiatio.

Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French annunciation, annunciacion, annonciacion, annonciation, anunciacion, anonciacion (French annonciation ) message, announcement (1st half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), announcement of the incarnation made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (1190 in Old French), church festival celebrating that event (1262), pictorial representation of that event (1347), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin annuntiation-, annuntiatio report, message, preaching of the Gospel (Vulgate), prophecy (4th cent.), announcement of the incarnation made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (7th cent.), church festival celebrating that event (from 11th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin annuntiāt- , past participial stem of annuntiāre annunciate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare annunciate adj. and later nunciation n.Compare Old Occitan anonsiacion (c1500; Occitan anounciacioun ), Catalan anunciació (1393), Spanish anunciación (a1485), Portuguese anunciação (15th cent.), Italian annunciazione (a1348). With the form anounsiacion compare announce v.

1. Christian Church. With the and usually with capital initial.

a. A Church festival commemorating the Annunciation (see sense 1b), celebrated on 25 March. Cf. Lady Day n.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Annunciation (25 March) > [noun]

Our Lady dayc1230

Our Lady day in Lentc1300

Saint Mary dayc1300

Our Lady in Marchc1325

annunciation1389

Our Lady's day1389

Lady Day1530

Annunciation Day1584

the Lady in Lent1608

1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 108 (MED) Ye feste of ye Annunciacioun of oure lady seinte marie.

c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 292 At Midday of þe anunciacion..be-þenk þe witerli Hou Gabriel grette vr swete ladi.

c1425 Twiti Venery (Vesp. B.xii) 154 The sesoun of the fox begynnyth at the natyuite of owre Lady & duryth til the Anunciacion.

a1500 Trental St. Gregory (Adv.) l. 112 in Anglia (1891) 13 305 Thre masses of Crystes natiuite..And thre of þe annunciacion.

1537 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 130 Ow^r Ladys daye the Annoncyacyon.

1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk VIII. 48 Here is a fair kept annually, on the annunciation of the blessed Virgin.

1899 Country Life Illustr. 14 Oct. 456/2 The number of pilgrims attending the feasts of the Annunciation, Assumption and Nativity, and Conception of BVM was enormous.

1908 E. Romanes C. M. Yonge x. 194 Miss Yonge..passed away after her last Communion, on the Eve of the Annunciation, 1901.

2010 Oxoniensia 74 32 The Spring feast of the Annunciation introduces chronologically the childhood cycle and calendrically the Passion cycle.

b. The announcement made by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would, by divine conception, become pregnant with and give birth to Jesus Christ, the son of God (as described in Luke 1:26–38). Cf. Ave Maria n. a.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > annunciation

annunciationa1400

a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11001 (MED) Þe annunciaciun [c1460 Laud nunciacion] O crist, þat broght vs al pardun.

?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 110 She conceyued oure Saueoure Ihesus by the annunciacion angelyk.

1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1310/2 The Angel was sent to grete our lady, & to annunciate & shew y^e good will of God towardes her, & therfore it is called, y^e annunciation of our lady.

1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry ii. 245 A Discourse of the seven Joys of the Virgin; to wit..her Annunciation by the Angel; [etc.].

1754 J. M. Magens tr. P. S. Nakskow Art. Faith Holy Evangelical Church xix. 195 It was an Angel of the Lord.., the Angel Gabriel, whom God had used for the Annunciation of Christ's Conception.

1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 167 No subject has been more frequently..treated by the religious painters than that of the Annunciation.

1913 St. Andrew's Cross Sept. 34/2 The first impression made on us by the story of the Annunciation is that of the beauty of the Virgin's character.

2001 Smithsonian May 107 (caption) This 1675 prayer book..bears high-style, baroque repoussé silver depictions of the Annunciation and the Visitation.

c. A picture or representation of the Annunciation.

ΚΠ

1556 tr. A. Mainardi Anatomi iv. v. f. 131 Is it Idolatry, and likewise I ought to saye, plaine doltisshnes, to haue greter deuocion to one Image or picture, than to a nother, off the selff same saint or saintes? As for example, more to that off S. Loreto, than to that off the Annunciation in Florence.

1780 A. Young Tour Ireland 312 In Mr. Quin's house, there are some very good pictures particularly an anunciation, by Dominicino, which is a beautiful piece.

1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna p. xlviii I have seen this enclosed garden very significantly placed in the background of the Annunciation, and in pictures of the Immaculate Conception.

1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love ii. 36 He had struggled to paint a difficult and daring Annunciation, only to have the picture savaged by critics.

2005 E. Fahy Wrightsman Pictures (Metrop. Mus. Art) 56/1 When and where Rubens painted his Annunciation is unknown.

2. gen. The action or an act of announcing, proclaiming, or declaring something, esp. a coming event or imminent arrival; an announcement. Now archaic.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > an announcement or proclamation

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proclamationa1325

pronouncing1442

pronunciationc1455

annunciationa1500

announcement1512

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placate1567

bando1598

bill1642

declaration1659

advertisement1692

noration1799

pronunciamiento1832

society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun]

bodingc1000

proclamationa1325

announcingc1450

pronunciationc1455

nunciationc1460

proclaim1461

announcement1512

blazoning1533

denouncement1544

denunciation1548

denouncing1552

annunciation1563

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indiction1583

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exclamation1602

predication1618

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predicature1653

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preconizance1719

annunciatinga1729

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blazonment1876

a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 6 (MED) When the hirdus had herde this blessid annunciacion and the songe of angels that was of mannes pes, they yede vnto Bedlem.

1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Iiii.i^v The memorye of Christ, thannunciation of his death.

1637 S. Rutherford Let. 15 June in Joshua Redivivus (1664) i. cxxiii. 238 Not a formal thanksgiving; but an annunciation, or predication of Christ's death.

1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity v. vi. 118 The Preaching of Christ..truly termed the Gospel, or an Annunciation of Glad-Tidings to all.

1762 S. Derrick Coll. Trav. I. 133 From the want of these annunciations [of the time of day] Busbequius had his repose often interrupted by his Turkish guides.

1775 A. M. Toplady Wks. (1828) VI. 269 The annunciation of dinner occasioned a truce to debate.

1825 W. Scott Betrothed Introd., in Tales Crusaders I. p. xxvii In the general start and exclamation which followed this annunciation, Mr Oldbuck dropped his snuff-box.

1854 T. De Quincey On Murder (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 62 The annunciation of some gigantic calamity.

a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. xxii. 177 The organ had broken into annunciation.

2001 B. Schmidt in P. Bernardini & N. Fiering Jews & Expansion of Europe to West iv. 87 The story of the Sacrifice of Manoah—of the annunciation of a child to a barren woman of Israel.

3. The action of a device indicating or announcing something by means of a visible or audible signal; an indication or announcement made in this way. Cf. annunciator n. 2.

ΚΠ

1879 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Apr. 315/1 An electric annunciator, which is connected with a battery.., and is located at the place or room or office at which the annunciation is desired.

1883 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 29 Nov. 5/5 The comfort and ease of the traveler is promoted greatly by a complete system of electric annunciation. Passenger in seat No. 8 to right touches electric button. Porter in buffet sees an arrow turn on the annunciator dial.

1991 Industr. Waste Managem. Oct. 27/3 Alarm scanning, annunciation and reporting are built-in as standard.

2014 Vanity Fair Oct. 293/1 Control modes that the pilot does not fully understand or that the airplane may have switched into autonomously, perhaps with an annunciation but without the pilot's awareness.

Compounds

Annunciation Day n. (also with lower-case initial(s)) Christian Church a Church festival commemorating the day on which the Archangel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would, by divine conception, become pregnant with and give birth to Jesus Christ (see sense 1b), celebrated on 25 March; cf. sense 1a, Lady Day n.

ΚΠ

1584 J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. viii. 479 The common people..cal the annuntiation day, our Ladie day.

?1790 T. Nicholls Wreath 122 On Annunciation day, To church the village took their way.

1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 July 37/1 Up to the year 1752, the [civil] year in England began on the 25th of March, being Annunciation Day.

1951 R. Hutchison & R. Adams Every Day's a Holiday 75 Nowadays when Easter falls on March 25.., it takes precedence and Annunciation Day is moved to a later date.

2013 M. Papachristophorou Myth, Representation, & Identity v. 82 Through..the celebrating of Jesus's conception and birth, on Annunciation Day and Christmas, the Holy Virgin is symbolically associated with fertility.

Annunciation lily n. a Madonna lily ( Lilium candidum), as sometimes depicted in pictures of the Annunciation.

ΚΠ

1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. viii. 311 The figure of Gabriel..has only in its hand the Annunciation lily.

1907 Daily Chron. 2 May 4/5 The large drawing room,..decorated with tall Annunciation lilies..and exquisite roses.

2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 658 L. candidum..is now known as the ‘Annunciation lily’..‘Madonna lily’, or ‘Bourbon lily’.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022).

单词	annunciation
释义	annunciationn. Brit. /əˌnʌnsɪˈeɪʃn/, /əˌnʌnʃɪˈeɪʃn/, U.S. /əˌnənsiˈeɪʃən/ Forms: Middle English annonciacion, Middle English annunciacioun, Middle English annunciaciun, Middle English annunciatione, Middle English anounsiacion, Middle English anunciacion, Middle English–1500s annunciacion, 1500s agnunciacion, 1500s annoncyacyon, 1500s annunciacyon, 1500s–1600s annuntiation, 1500s– annunciation, 1600s–1700s anunciation; also Scottish pre-1700 annunciacioune, pre-1700 annuntiatiowne. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French annunciation; Latin annuntiation-, annuntiatio. Etymology: < (i) Anglo-Norman and Middle French annunciation, annunciacion, annonciacion, annonciation, anunciacion, anonciacion (French annonciation ) message, announcement (1st half of the 12th cent. in Anglo-Norman), announcement of the incarnation made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (1190 in Old French), church festival celebrating that event (1262), pictorial representation of that event (1347), and its etymon (ii) post-classical Latin annuntiation-, annuntiatio report, message, preaching of the Gospel (Vulgate), prophecy (4th cent.), announcement of the incarnation made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary (7th cent.), church festival celebrating that event (from 11th cent. in British sources) < classical Latin annuntiāt- , past participial stem of annuntiāre annunciate v. + -iō -ion suffix¹. Compare annunciate adj. and later nunciation n.Compare Old Occitan anonsiacion (c1500; Occitan anounciacioun ), Catalan anunciació (1393), Spanish anunciación (a1485), Portuguese anunciação (15th cent.), Italian annunciazione (a1348). With the form anounsiacion compare announce v. 1. Christian Church. With the and usually with capital initial. a. A Church festival commemorating the Annunciation (see sense 1b), celebrated on 25 March. Cf. Lady Day n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Annunciation (25 March) > [noun] Our Lady dayc1230 Our Lady day in Lentc1300 Saint Mary dayc1300 Our Lady in Marchc1325 annunciation1389 Our Lady's day1389 Lady Day1530 Annunciation Day1584 the Lady in Lent1608 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 108 (MED) Ye feste of ye Annunciacioun of oure lady seinte marie. c1390 in C. Horstmann Minor Poems Vernon MS (1892) i. 292 At Midday of þe anunciacion..be-þenk þe witerli Hou Gabriel grette vr swete ladi. c1425 Twiti Venery (Vesp. B.xii) 154 The sesoun of the fox begynnyth at the natyuite of owre Lady & duryth til the Anunciacion. a1500 Trental St. Gregory (Adv.) l. 112 in Anglia (1891) 13 305 Thre masses of Crystes natiuite..And thre of þe annunciacion. 1537 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 130 Ow^r Ladys daye the Annoncyacyon. 1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk VIII. 48 Here is a fair kept annually, on the annunciation of the blessed Virgin. 1899 Country Life Illustr. 14 Oct. 456/2 The number of pilgrims attending the feasts of the Annunciation, Assumption and Nativity, and Conception of BVM was enormous. 1908 E. Romanes C. M. Yonge x. 194 Miss Yonge..passed away after her last Communion, on the Eve of the Annunciation, 1901. 2010 Oxoniensia 74 32 The Spring feast of the Annunciation introduces chronologically the childhood cycle and calendrically the Passion cycle. b. The announcement made by the Archangel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary that she would, by divine conception, become pregnant with and give birth to Jesus Christ, the son of God (as described in Luke 1:26–38). Cf. Ave Maria n. a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > annunciation annunciationa1400 a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 11001 (MED) Þe annunciaciun [c1460 Laud nunciacion] O crist, þat broght vs al pardun. ?c1450 tr. Bk. Knight of La Tour Landry (1906) 110 She conceyued oure Saueoure Ihesus by the annunciacion angelyk. 1563 J. Foxe Actes & Monuments 1310/2 The Angel was sent to grete our lady, & to annunciate & shew y^e good will of God towardes her, & therfore it is called, y^e annunciation of our lady. 1678 T. Tenison Of Idolatry ii. 245 A Discourse of the seven Joys of the Virgin; to wit..her Annunciation by the Angel; [etc.]. 1754 J. M. Magens tr. P. S. Nakskow Art. Faith Holy Evangelical Church xix. 195 It was an Angel of the Lord.., the Angel Gabriel, whom God had used for the Annunciation of Christ's Conception. 1846 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters II. 167 No subject has been more frequently..treated by the religious painters than that of the Annunciation. 1913 St. Andrew's Cross Sept. 34/2 The first impression made on us by the story of the Annunciation is that of the beauty of the Virgin's character. 2001 Smithsonian May 107 (caption) This 1675 prayer book..bears high-style, baroque repoussé silver depictions of the Annunciation and the Visitation. c. A picture or representation of the Annunciation. ΚΠ 1556 tr. A. Mainardi Anatomi iv. v. f. 131 Is it Idolatry, and likewise I ought to saye, plaine doltisshnes, to haue greter deuocion to one Image or picture, than to a nother, off the selff same saint or saintes? As for example, more to that off S. Loreto, than to that off the Annunciation in Florence. 1780 A. Young Tour Ireland 312 In Mr. Quin's house, there are some very good pictures particularly an anunciation, by Dominicino, which is a beautiful piece. 1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna p. xlviii I have seen this enclosed garden very significantly placed in the background of the Annunciation, and in pictures of the Immaculate Conception. 1989 G. Daly Pre-Raphaelites in Love ii. 36 He had struggled to paint a difficult and daring Annunciation, only to have the picture savaged by critics. 2005 E. Fahy Wrightsman Pictures (Metrop. Mus. Art) 56/1 When and where Rubens painted his Annunciation is unknown. 2. gen. The action or an act of announcing, proclaiming, or declaring something, esp. a coming event or imminent arrival; an announcement. Now archaic. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] > an announcement or proclamation ban1297 proclamationa1325 pronouncing1442 pronunciationc1455 annunciationa1500 announcement1512 placard1560 placate1567 bando1598 bill1642 declaration1659 advertisement1692 noration1799 pronunciamiento1832 society > communication > information > announcing or proclaiming > [noun] bodingc1000 proclamationa1325 announcingc1450 pronunciationc1455 nunciationc1460 proclaim1461 announcement1512 blazoning1533 denouncement1544 denunciation1548 denouncing1552 annunciation1563 blazing1563 indiction1583 pronouncement1593 exclamation1602 predication1618 pronounce1641 preconization1650 predicature1653 denounce1704 preconizance1719 annunciatinga1729 annonce1775 announce1779 blazonment1876 a1500 (?c1425) Speculum Sacerdotale (1936) 6 (MED) When the hirdus had herde this blessid annunciacion and the songe of angels that was of mannes pes, they yede vnto Bedlem. 1563 2nd Tome Homelyes sig. Iiii.i^v The memorye of Christ, thannunciation of his death. 1637 S. Rutherford Let. 15 June in Joshua Redivivus (1664) i. cxxiii. 238 Not a formal thanksgiving; but an annunciation, or predication of Christ's death. 1678 R. Barclay Apol. True Christian Divinity v. vi. 118 The Preaching of Christ..truly termed the Gospel, or an Annunciation of Glad-Tidings to all. 1762 S. Derrick Coll. Trav. I. 133 From the want of these annunciations [of the time of day] Busbequius had his repose often interrupted by his Turkish guides. 1775 A. M. Toplady Wks. (1828) VI. 269 The annunciation of dinner occasioned a truce to debate. 1825 W. Scott Betrothed Introd., in Tales Crusaders I. p. xxvii In the general start and exclamation which followed this annunciation, Mr Oldbuck dropped his snuff-box. 1854 T. De Quincey On Murder (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay IV. 62 The annunciation of some gigantic calamity. a1933 J. Galsworthy End of Chapter (1934) i. xxii. 177 The organ had broken into annunciation. 2001 B. Schmidt in P. Bernardini & N. Fiering Jews & Expansion of Europe to West iv. 87 The story of the Sacrifice of Manoah—of the annunciation of a child to a barren woman of Israel. 3. The action of a device indicating or announcing something by means of a visible or audible signal; an indication or announcement made in this way. Cf. annunciator n. 2. ΚΠ 1879 Specif. & Drawings of Patents (U.S. Patent Office) 8 Apr. 315/1 An electric annunciator, which is connected with a battery.., and is located at the place or room or office at which the annunciation is desired. 1883 St. Louis (Missouri) Globe-Democrat 29 Nov. 5/5 The comfort and ease of the traveler is promoted greatly by a complete system of electric annunciation. Passenger in seat No. 8 to right touches electric button. Porter in buffet sees an arrow turn on the annunciator dial. 1991 Industr. Waste Managem. Oct. 27/3 Alarm scanning, annunciation and reporting are built-in as standard. 2014 Vanity Fair Oct. 293/1 Control modes that the pilot does not fully understand or that the airplane may have switched into autonomously, perhaps with an annunciation but without the pilot's awareness. Compounds Annunciation Day n. (also with lower-case initial(s)) Christian Church a Church festival commemorating the day on which the Archangel Gabriel announced to the Virgin Mary that she would, by divine conception, become pregnant with and give birth to Jesus Christ (see sense 1b), celebrated on 25 March; cf. sense 1a, Lady Day n. ΚΠ 1584 J. Rainolds & J. Hart Summe of Conf. viii. 479 The common people..cal the annuntiation day, our Ladie day. ?1790 T. Nicholls Wreath 122 On Annunciation day, To church the village took their way. 1859 Chambers's Jrnl. 16 July 37/1 Up to the year 1752, the [civil] year in England began on the 25th of March, being Annunciation Day. 1951 R. Hutchison & R. Adams Every Day's a Holiday 75 Nowadays when Easter falls on March 25.., it takes precedence and Annunciation Day is moved to a later date. 2013 M. Papachristophorou Myth, Representation, & Identity v. 82 Through..the celebrating of Jesus's conception and birth, on Annunciation Day and Christmas, the Holy Virgin is symbolically associated with fertility. Annunciation lily n. a Madonna lily ( Lilium candidum), as sometimes depicted in pictures of the Annunciation. ΚΠ 1853 J. Ruskin Stones of Venice II. viii. 311 The figure of Gabriel..has only in its hand the Annunciation lily. 1907 Daily Chron. 2 May 4/5 The large drawing room,..decorated with tall Annunciation lilies..and exquisite roses. 2004 D. F. Austin Florida Ethnobot. 658 L. candidum..is now known as the ‘Annunciation lily’..‘Madonna lily’, or ‘Bourbon lily’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2022). < n.1389
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