单词 | font-hallowing |
释义 | > as lemmasfont-hallowing font-hallowing n. now historical the act of blessing or reconsecrating baptismal water; this as a ritual or ceremony; (hence by extension) the blessing or reconsecration of the baptismal font.Quot. 2000 translates the use of Old English fonthalgung in quot. OE1. ΚΠ OE Lacnunga (2001) I. lxiii. 32 Wæter gehalga fonthalgunge, & do ceac innan in ða buteran. OE On Mass: Celebration on Vigils in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 230 Þæræfter gange se mæssepreost to ðam fanthalgunge mid fiffealdum letanian. a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) I. ix. xxxi. 548 Þanne me gooþ wiþ processioun to þe funte halewinge. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) l. 145 Alle þe chyldren þat ben I-bore Byfore aster and whyssone-tyde, Eghte dayes they schullen a-byde, That at the font halowynge They mowe take here folowynge. 1776 J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan III. 174 Among many various ceremonies, I find that they had called one ‘The Font Hallowing’, which was performed on Easter even, and Whitsunday eve. 1920 Chatterbox 262/1 Till quite recent times in some places babies were not christened till Easter or Whit-Sunday... A ceremony called ‘Font-hallowing’ took place on the eves of these festivals, in preparation for the baptisms on the following Sundays. 2000 S. Pollington tr. Lacnunga MS in Leechcraft vi. 203 Chop all the plants together very small, and hallow some water by a font-hallowing. < as lemmas |
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