单词 | gods house |
释义 | God's housen. 1. A place of worship; = house of God at house n.1 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > [noun] holinessc897 houseeOE halidomc1000 ZionOE God's houseOE wike-tuna1250 saintuairea1300 sanctuarya1340 holy1382 entry?c1400 the Holy (Saint) Sepulchre (occasionally the Sepulchre)c1400 high placea1425 place of worship?1459 synagogue1490 God-box?1548 shrinea1577 bethela1617 prayer house1657 barn1689 bidental1692 altar1772 praying housea1843 society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > church or place of worship > [noun] churcheOE God's houseOE kirkc1175 temple1399 steeple1555 church building1605 steeple-house1644 shrine1645 Dominical1659 religion shop1811 OE West Saxon Gospels: Luke (Corpus Cambr.) vi. 4 He [sc. David] eode into Godes huse [L. intravit in domum Dei]. OE Laws of Cnut (Nero) i. iv. 284 Eallum Cristenum mannum gebyrað swiðe rihte, þæt hig..gehalgode Godes hus æfre swiþe georne griðian & friðian. a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 33 Alle hem ðe on godes huse wunien. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 215 (MED) Cherche, þet is godes chombre and godes hous. ?a1475 Ludus Coventriae (1922) 55 (MED) In goddys hous ȝe xulde be-dene honoure ȝour god. 1563 Bp. J. Pilkington Burnynge of Paules Church sig. G.iiii Goddes house must be a house of prayer, and not..the Popes market place. 1578 T. Nicholas tr. F. Lopez de Gómara Pleasant Hist. Conquest W. India 201 The Temple is called Teucalli, that is to say, Gods house. 1661 J. Howell Twelve Several Treat. 328 They wold make Gods House cleane..but 'tis visibly found that they have brought much more rubbage into it. 1704 N. Parkhurst Life William Burkitt 12 This Messenger found him in God's House, in God's Service, not profaning, not neglecting, but keeping a Sabbath. 1842 Ld. Tennyson Two Voices in Poems (new ed.) II. 143 On to God's house the people prest. 1895 L. A. Waddell Buddhism of Tibet 287 The Lamaist temple is called ‘God's house’. 1996 F. McCourt Angela's Ashes (1997) i. 10 The priest said, Quiet, man, you're in God's house, and when Malachy said, God's house, my arse, he was thrown out..because you can't say arse in God's house. 2000 T. A. Kessler D-Girl (HBO TV shooting script) 41 in Sopranos 2nd Ser. (O.E.D. Archive) Grasso. We're wiring you for the confirmation. Pussy. You prick, you think I'm wearin' a wire into God's house? ΚΠ 1377–8 in J. T. Fowler Extracts Acct. Rolls Abbey of Durham (1899) II. 387 (MED) Item in uno chaliskays et uno godeshous pro rotulis officii. 3. An almshouse. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > dwelling place or abode > institutional homes > [noun] > for the poor, infirm, etc. bead-housec1160 spittle?c1225 spittle-housec1315 maison dieu1354 almshouse1395 hospital14.. God's house1425 hospitality1571 townhouse1597 guest house1600 gifts1651 college1694 asylum1776 hospice1818 group home1873 pogey1891 1425 Ordinances Whittington's Alms-house (modernized text) in J. Entick New Hist. London (1766) IV. 355 The same house to be called for ever God's-house, or almes-house. ?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 61 The forsaid dame Margarete landid at Porchestre and wente fro thenneȝ to Hamptoun be water, and restid her there in the Goddeshous. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 284 Sir Richard de Abberbury..founded for poore people a Gods-house [margin] Almes house. 1677 R. Izacke Antiq. Essex 188 William Wynard Esquire..Founded an Hospital without the South-gate of the said City, calling it God's house, for twelve poor Men, allotting to each of them eight-pence weekly towards their maintenance. a1765 F. Blomefield & C. Parkin Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk (1769) III. 567 The Hospital of St. Mary, commonly called God's House..was founded about 1235 by Sir Peter de alto Bosco..for the reception of Travellers and poor People. 1898 Berks, Bucks & Oxon Archæol. Jrnl. 4 49 ‘A small but very neat Castle’..was built by Sir Ric. Abburbury, Knt., founder also of the God's house beneath it. 1921 Munsey's Mag. Jan. 715 Richard Whittington rebuilt the old London church of St. Michael Paternoster Royal, and founded a ‘God's house’, or almshouse, for thirteen poor men on Highgate Hill. 2010 C. Aslet Villages of Brit. 175 Church, God's House and school survive—all of them still going strong—as one of the most beautiful compositions to come down from the fifteenth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.OE |
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