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单词 anagnost
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anagnostn.

Brit. /ˈanəɡnɒst/, U.S. /ˈæˌnæɡˌnɑst/
Forms: 1600s–1700s anagnostes, 1600s– anagnost, 1700s anagnoste.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin anagnōstes.
Etymology: < classical Latin anagnōstes slave trained to read aloud < Hellenistic Greek ἀναγνώστης reader, slave trained to read, person who reads and expounds, reader in the Christian church < ἀνα- ana- prefix + γνώστης person who knows (see prognostes n.), after ancient Greek ἀναγιγνώσκειν to read.Compare Middle French, French anagnoste (1552 in Rabelais, in the passage translated in quot. 1708).
A person employed to read aloud; esp. one who reads the lessons or other parts of the service in a church. Cf. reader n. 3.Now historical except with reference to the Orthodox Church, in which, in most branches, the office of anagnost is one of the orders.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > [noun] > reading aloud > one who
readerOE
reading minister1572
anagnost1601
anagnostic1623
anagnostian1625
reader-aloud1830
lectrice1889
1601 P. Holland in tr. Pliny Hist. World II. xxv. x. 231 (margin) Lay the fault..upon Plinies Anagnosts or Readers, who either read wrong, or pronounced not their words distinctly.
1679 P. Rycaut Present State Greek Church 203 The Bishop..gives to the Anagnostes a Bible, or Book of the holy Scripture.
1708 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Wks. II. Epist. Ded. sig. B2v Carefully and distinctly read to him by the most learned and faithful Anagnost in this Kingdom.
1847 Bibliotheca Sacra Nov. 607 When he had spent three years in study and had received baptism, [Meletius] appointed him to the office of Anagnost.
1982 GeoJournal 6 57/2 The deacons, subdeacons, anagnosts (readers) and church singers [in the Coptic Orthodox Church] are numerous.
1999 R. Gavrilova Bulgarian Urban Culture 18th & 19th Cent. ii. 119 The bishop confirmed the pupils who had mastered the Book of Apostles as ‘anagnosts’, persons appointed official readers in church.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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