单词 | lay brother |
释义 | > as lemmaslay brother lay brother n. a man who has taken the habit and vows of a religious order, but is employed mostly in manual labour and is exempt from the studies or choir-duties required of the other members; also, in Freemasonry, applied to one who is not initiated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay brother or sister > [noun] > lay brother lewd frerec1380 lay brother?c1500 convert brother1640 ?c1500 MS BL Add. 22285 in Myroure Oure Ladye (1873) Introd. p. xxi (note) I N. N. broþer professyd in the order & degre of a lay brother or ffocary. 1679 Trials of Wakeman 34 He is a Benedictine Monk, or at least~wise a Lay Brother. 1742 A. Pope New Dunciad 568 (note) ‘A Gregorian, or a Gormogon’, A sort of Lay-brothers, Slips from the root of the Free-Masons. 1823 T. De Quincey Rosicrucians & Free-masons in Wks. (1871) XVI. 363 That lay-brothers were admitted for the performance of servile offices is not to be taken as any departure from the general rule. 1866 C. Kingsley Hereward the Wake I. i. 57 He dismounted, and halloed to a lay brother to see to his horse. < as lemmas |
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