单词 | aula |
释义 | aulan. 1. A hall or court, in various senses. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > room > types of room generally > [noun] > large or principal room hallc1200 sala1611 aula1626 sale1632 salle1765 ha'1808 saal1855 megaron1877 1626 S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) iv. vii. 377 The Persians vsed banquettings vnder Arras hangings, before the time of Attalus, from whom the Romans first borrowed the vse of them, of his aula or hall hanged therewith, calling them aulæa. 1685 R. Brady Compl. Hist. Eng. 158 The Lords House was the Aula, Hall, or Court, and all the Tenents, if need required, were bound to attend there every three weeks. 1746 P. Francis in tr. Horace Epistles IV. 18 The nuptial Bed..was placed in the Aula, or Atrium, the Hall, where the Statues of the Ancestors of the Family were ranged. 1840 T. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ I. p. xxvii The room is lofty, but with no architectural feature to distinguish it from an ordinary Aula. 1867 R. Garner Holiday Excursions Naturalist i. 7 At the entrance into the unroofed and windowless aula..we found a nice place of rest. 1956 A. J. Hunt in D. L. Linton Sheffield 230 The founding of William de Lovetot's castle early in the twelfth century, possibly on the ruins of a Saxon aula. 1962 H. R. Loyn Anglo-Saxon Eng. (1963) ix. 340 Within this district the term manor was used whenever a lord's house, an aula, existed. 1992 P. Bahn Collins Dict. Archaeol. 38 Aula, the entrance hall in a Roman house. 2. spec. Frequently with capital initial. An assembly hall (esp. as used for ceremonies such as graduation) in a university, college, or similar institution.Especially with reference to universities in various continental European countries. ΚΠ 1837 Morning Post 26 Sept. The corpus academicum and the deputies from the foreign Universities were..presented to the King in the new Aula [of the university of Göttingen]. 1847 T. Ross tr. J. J. von Tschudi Trav. Peru iv. 80 Facing the entrance door..are great double doors opening into the Aula [of the university of Lima]. 1861 Med. Times & Gaz. 7 Sept. 254/2 Their names are engraved on brazen tablets, which adorn the Aula of the Alma Mater. 1937 Nature 31 July 180/1 Representatives of numerous universities, academies and societies,..who were welcomed in the aula of the University. 1953 E. Jones Sigmund Freud I. iv. 63 The graduation ceremonies took place in the beautiful Aula of the baroque building of the old University. 2006 V. O. Lumans Latvia in World War II ix. 283 Dankers announced the mobilization at a solemn ceremony at the aula of the university. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1626 |
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