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单词 font-stone
释义

font-stonen.

Brit. /ˈfɒntstəʊn/, U.S. /ˈfɑntˌstoʊn/
Forms:

α. see font n.1 and stone n.

β. Middle English fanston, Middle English fanstone, Middle English fonstan, Middle English fonston, Middle English fonstone, Middle English funestane, Middle English funston, Middle English funstone, Middle English vanston, Middle English wanston.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: font n.1, stone n.
Etymology: < font n.1 + stone n.The β. forms show simplification of the medial consonant cluster.
Now historical.
A stone font (font n.1 1a) for the water used in baptism.
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a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 61 (MED) At ure fulcninge biforen þe uantstone.
a1225 (?OE) MS Lamb. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1868) 1st Ser. 149 Þe klennesse of ower fulluhte þet ȝe habbeð et þe fonstan underfonge.
a1275 St. Margaret (Trin. Cambr.) l. 86 in A. S. M. Clark Seint Maregrete & Body & Soul (Ph.D. diss., Univ. of Michigan) (1972) 28 Cristine wiman ic am, iheuen of þe fonston.
c1380 Sir Ferumbras (1879) Orig. draft l. 548 Had he beo in crist be-leued, & fulled in holi fanston.
?c1450 Trivet's Life of Constance in F. J. Furnivall Originals & Analogues Canterbury Tales (1876) 236 (MED) A full fyre son..at the foonte stoone was named and called Morys.
1530 R. Whitford Werke for Housholders (new ed.) sig. A.ij I do..frely gyue my selfe, soule and body..vnto thy handes, to be thy bonde seruaunt for euer, according vnto ye promyse made in my baptysme at ye font stone.
1594 1st Pt. Raigne Selimus sig. H2 They shal swear it vpon the font-stone.
1720 W. Wall Def. Hist. Infant-baptism (ed. 3) I. iii. 37 There is at Bridekirk in Cumberland a Font-Stone so antient that Cambden confesses he could not read the Inscription on it.
1895 William & Mary Coll. Q. Hist. Mag. 3 173 A font stone was imported in 1691, and is doubtless the one now in the church.
1997 D. Cressy Birth, Marriage & Death vi. 148 At Royden, Wiltshire, they ordered re-edification of the decayed chapel and restoration of its font stone.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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