| 单词 | letters dimissory |
| 释义 | > as lemmasletters dimissory 2. Ecclesiastical. dimissory letter (usually in plural letters dimissory): (a) (in the ancient church) a letter from a bishop dismissing a clergyman from one diocese and recommending him to another; (b) a letter from a bishop, the superior of a religious order, etc., authorizing the bearer as a candidate for ordination. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > order > ordination > [noun] > letter(s) recommending dimissoryc1380 letters dimissory1583 dismissory1716 dimissorial1885 1583 P. Stubbes Second Pt. Anat. Abuses sig. M7v If he..haue letters dimissorie from one bishop to another. 1611 J. Donne Ignatius his Conclaue sig. F6 Accompany them with Certificates, and Dimissory letters. 1673 W. Cave Primitive Christianity iii. iii. 310 Letters Dimissory whereby Leave was given to persons going into another Diocese (if ordained) to be admitted and incorporated into the Clergy of that Church. 1708 Chamberlayne's Magnæ Britanniæ Notitia (1743) i. iii. i. 143 He must have Letters Demissory from the Bishop. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 128 A Bishop of another Diocess ought neither to ordain nor admit a Clerk..without letters Dimissory. 1818 C. Simeon Let. in Mem. (1847) xx. 497 Letters dimissory for a young man who has distinguished himself. 1819 R. Southey in Q. Rev. 22 73 The abbot was cautioned not to receive a member of any other known monastery without dimissory letters from his superior. < as lemmas |
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