单词 | mandylion |
释义 | mandylionn. Theology. A head-cloth believed to display the impression of Christ's face, venerated esp. by the Eastern Orthodox Church; an image of Christ representing or reproducing this. ΚΠ 1909 in Cent. Dict. Suppl. Mandilion. 1928 A. A. Vasiliev Hist. Byzantine Empire vi. 373 The city of Edessa was forced by the Greek troops to give up its precious relic, the miraculous image of the Savior (mandilion). 1970 J. B. Segal Edessa v. 215 Here their [sc. the Byzantines'] prize was not military conquest but the portrait of Jesus, the mandylion. 1991 Oxf. Dict. Byzantium 1282 The Mandylion image was also known in the West where, with certain differences of detail (Christ's neck is not included, the crown of thorns is eventually added), it developed as the ‘Veronica’. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1909 |
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