单词 | lection |
释义 | lectionn. I. Reading. a. The act of reading. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ society > communication > reading > [noun] readingeOE lecture1398 inredingc1449 lection1669 1669 A. Browne Ars Pictoria To Rdr. I am extreamly unwilling any person should..take the trouble of casting his eye here, were not I modestly of the opinion, something may not be impertinent, or unworthy curious mens Lection. 1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. sig. a The frequent Lection of Books of Devotion. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > interpretation > particular interpretation, construction > [noun] > of text construction1483 lection?1541 construing1640 ?1541 M. Coverdale Confut. Standish sig. kviij Now is καθολικὸς as much to saye as vniuersalis. Which worde like as ye leaue out in youre lection [etc.]. 1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 10 What Magician will account of them so, in his way of lection? or Astrologer, in his way of configuration? 1702 W. J. tr. C. de Bruyn Voy. Levant x. 39 To know the different Lections of this Inscription. c. concrete. A reading of a text found in a particular copy or edition. †various lections, variant readings. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > reading lecturec1475 reading1540 lection1659 society > leisure > the arts > literature > literary and textual criticism > textual criticism > version of text > [noun] > reading > various reading varia lectioa1651 various lections1659 various reading(s)1659 variant1855 1659 B. Walton Considerator Considered 114 If they be critical notes they cannot be either in part or in whole Various Lections. 1689 R. Milward Selden's Table-talk 4 When you meet with several Readings of the Text,..be sure you keep to what is setled, and then you may flourish upon your various Lections. 1699 R. Bentley Diss. Epist. Phalaris (new ed.) 461 In the Vossian MS it's πάντα for πᾶσα; which may seem the truer Lection. 1715 A. Pope in tr. Homer Iliad I. i. Observ. 47 The grand Ambition of one sort of Scholars is to encrease the Number of Various Lections. 1830 T. De Quincey Life R. Bentley in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 672/1 We confess, that..we ourselves are offended by the obtrusion of the new lections into the text. a1856 W. Hamilton Lect. Metaphysics (1860) IV. xxxi. 149 Doctrines originating in a corrupted lection..have thus arisen and been keenly defended. 2. Christian Church. A portion of a sacred writing appointed to be read in church; a ‘lesson’. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > reading > [noun] capitleOE lesson?c1225 legenda1387 chapter1482 lecture1526 lection1608 pericope1643 capitulum1668 1608 A. Willet Hexapla in Exodum 179 They write in those parchments certaine sacred lections which they call para~shoth. 1695 G. Hooper Disc. Lent 355 To this last describ'd Iewish Order of Morning Prayers so far did the Antient Christian agree, as to begin likewise with Lections and Psalmody. 1846 W. Maskell Monumenta Ritualia Ecclesiae Anglicanae I. p. xxiij On Passion Sunday, the first Lections were from Jeremiah. 1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. 157 The ambo or ambones..for the lections of Holy Scriptures. 1885 W. Pater Marius the Epicurean II. 135 Those lections, or sacred readings, which..occurred at certain intervals amid the silence of the assembly. 1927 A. H. McNeile Introd. N.T. 383 It [sc. the Codex Bezae] contains certain lection marks which Brightman holds to be Byzantine. ΘΚΠ society > education > teaching > means of teaching > [noun] > instructive discourse > lecture ordinary?a1475 lecture1536 prelection1565 lection?1566 leccer1899 telelecture1955 ?1566–7 G. Buchanan Opinion Reformation Univ. St. Andros in Vernacular Writings (1892) 11 The portar..sal ryng..at sax to the lesson public; before viij, twys to the ordinar lection. ΚΠ 1621 Gude & Godlie Ball. (S.T.S.) 233 I cry in generall, on Spirituall & Temporall, This lectioun that ȝe leir. II. Election. 5. = election n. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > choosing or fact of being chosen for office > [noun] electionc1270 lectiona1300 electc1425 electing1611 a1300 Leg. St. Gregory 986 (Schulz) Þe cardinals..bisouȝt God,..Her leccioun wele to do. 1462 Burgh Rec. Peebles (1872) 145 Ilke man be his awn vos gaf thair lectioun to the sayd Schyr John. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xlii. 129 (heading) Howe pope Vrbane and pope Clement were at grete dyscorde togyder, and howe the crysten kynges were in varyaunce for theyr lectyons. 1535 W. Stewart tr. H. Boethius Bk. Cron. Scotl. (1858) II. 698 The haill lectioun that tha had gevin him till. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1902; most recently modified version published online March 2022). lectionv. rare. To read a lesson from. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > speech-making > recitation > recite [verb (transitive)] > read aloud > read a lesson from lection1922 1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 165 I went where my friend had lectioned The prophets in high declaim. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1300v.1922 |
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