单词 | lectern |
释义 | lecternn. 1. A reading- or singing-desk in a church, esp. that from which the lessons are read; made of wood, metal, or stone, and often in the form of an eagle with outspread wings supported on a column. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun] lecternc1325 pulpitc1390 desk1449 stage1483 anabathur1623 oratorio1631 ambo1641 tub1644 chair1649 anabathrum1658 minbar1682 ambon1683 hand board1734 rostrum1755 tub-pulpita1791 lutrin1837 prayer desk1843 wood1854 praying desk1906 α. figurative.1401 Pol. Poems (Rolls) II. 78 So longe..thou hast lerned to lyen that thi tonge is letteroun of lyes.β. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1876) VI. 447 [He] putte his gloves on a lectryne whiles he prayede.1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 165/1 Thenne thys felowe wente up to the lectron where as saynt James preched.1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 238/1 Lecterne to syng at, levtrayn.a1552 J. Leland Itinerary (1711) IV. 5 Buried yn the Paroche Chirch of S. Albane under the Place of the lectern in the Quier.1571 E. Grindal Iniunctions Prouince of Yorke §2. sig. B.ijv So that a conuenient deske or lecterne with a rowme to turne his face towardes the people be there prouided.1665 in D. Granville Remains (1861) I. 263 The Lectorne and Litany Desk are meane and uncomely.1845 Times 3 Feb. 5/5 The reading desk was taken away and a ‘faldstool’ and ‘lectern’ substituted.1852 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (1871) 437 The lectern in English cathedrals usually stands in the midst of the choir facing westwards.γ. 1516 Indenture in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 243 Of the Qwyer..the oon halfe thereof on every syde shall be double staulled, wyth lyke lettours, Staulls, and Seats.1553 Mendlesham Acc. in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS (1876) 593/2 Payde to Thomas Whyghtyng for makyng of ye lector that stonde on the alter iiiid.1566 in E. Peacock Eng. Church Furnit. (1866) 38 An old lecter wt a deske yet remayninge.c1325 Deo Gratias 18 in Early Eng. Poems & Lives Saints (1862) 124 In silke þat comely clerk was clad, And ouer a lettorne leoned he. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 648/27 Hic ambo, letrune. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 299/2 Leterone, or lectorne, deske (K. lectrone, H., P. letrone, or lectrun, S. leteron, or letervn), lectrinum. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 757/1 Hoc lectrinium, Hic ambo, Hic discus. a leyterne. 1541 Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 320* To be coveringis to the Lettronis in þe Chapell, xij elnis blak Birge Sating. 1600 in J. Barmby Churchwardens' Accts. Pittington (1888) 278 For mending of the letaring, ivd. a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) ix. 159 Mr. Blair went to the lettren and took the Bible from the reader. 1845 Ecclesiologist 4 147 The nave will contain both lettern and litany-stool. 1877 J. D. Chambers Divine Worship Eng. 6 There should be Desks or Letterns in the Choir. 2. Chiefly Scottish. Categories » a. A reading-desk in a private house. b. A writing desk; an escritoire. to be bred, sent to the lattern: see quots. 1825, a18142. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > desk > [noun] deskc1405 lectern1509 dess1552 book desk1686 prie-dieu1687 bureau1698 secretary1803 toys1816 secretaire1818 consulting-desk1823 slope1833 box-desk1860 roll-top1884 type-desk1901 partners' desk1925 partners' pedestal desk1930 console1944 1509 H. Watson tr. S. Brant Shyppe of Fooles (de Worde) i. sig. A*.ii I make my lectrons and my deskes clene ryght often. My mansyon is all replenysshed with bookes. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid vii. Prol. 145 Seand Virgill on ane lettrune stand, To writ anone I hynt ane pen in hand. 1534 Accts. Ld. High Treasurer Scotl. in R. Pitcairn Criminal Trials Scotl. I. 284* iiij½ elnis sad grene, to covir the Latronis in the Kingis Study. 1561 MS. Acc. Treasurer Edinb. Ane great four-square latterane turning on ane vice. a1575 Earl Huntly's Death in R. Bannatyne Jrnl. Trans. Scot. (1806) 486 The whole cofferis, boxis, or lettronis, that the erle him self had in handling; and had ony geir in keping in. c1610 J. Melville MS. Mem. 5 (Jam.) The whole expenses of the process and pices of the lyble, lying in a several buist by themselves in my lettron. 1691 Z. Haig in Russell Haigs of Bemersyde xi. 226 At that time I desired to be put to a lettering. 1697 Inventory in Sc. Notes & Queries (1900) Dec. 90/1 A writting latron and chamber box. 1719 R. Wodrow Corr. (1843) II. 442 I have forgot my book of Ministers' names... It stands behind the latron, in that shelf where my manuscript sermons stood. a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) I. iii. 181 It was in those days [18th cent.] very common for young men intended for the bar to attend a writer's chambers... In a word, the lattern, as it was called, answered nearly the same purpose in Scotland that the Inns of Court did to the English. a1814 J. Ramsay Scotl. & Scotsmen 18th Cent. (1888) II. 63 People of moderate estate used to send their eldest son for some time to the lattern. 1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) ‘He was bred to the Lettron’. He was bred a writer; a phrase still used by old people in Edinburgh. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > musical instrument > accessories > [noun] > music-stand lectern1557 music stand1762 music rest1874 1557–8 in R. Willis & J. W. Clark Archit. Hist. Univ. Cambr. (1886) II. 292 A lecturne for ye orgaines in the quere. 1612 Bk. Customs & Valuation in A. Halyburton Ledger (1867) 297 Desks or lettrones for wemen to work on covered with veluott, the peice vil. d. Scottish (in form lateran). The precentor's desk in a Scottish Presbyterian church. ΚΠ 1860 E. B. Ramsay Reminisc. Sc. Life 1st Ser. 208 What is commonly called the Lateran; a kind of small gallery at the top of the pulpit steps. 1871 W. Alexander Johnny Gibb xxxv. 250 The Mole-catcher..now occupied the precentor's desk, but..on great occasions he would always have Johnny Gibb in the lateran also. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1325 |
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