单词 | masser |
释义 | † massern.1 Obsolete. In Old English: a priest. In later use a Protestant term of contempt for: a person who celebrates or attends mass. Cf. mass-monger n.In quot. OE1 used of Jewish priests. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > celebrating mass mass-priesteOE masserOE priestOE rood priest1516 massing priest1554 missara1560 sacrificer1563 Christ-maker1571 sacrificule1604 conficient1614 celebrant1624 missalian1624 missalist1624 waiter at the altar1648 altar-thegn1720 president1945 OE Azarias 149 Bletsien þe þine sacerdas, soðfæst cyning, milde mæsseras mærne dryhten. OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 176 Gif hwa his had forleose, mæssere oððe biscop, sy he in hreowe oð deað, þæt his sawl lifige. OE Confessionale Pseudo-Egberti (Junius) 180 Þeh ðe se mæssere synful sy oððe hæðen. 1543 J. Bale Yet Course at Romyshe Foxe sig. Evj A good mattenser, masser, and so forth, but no true gospell preacher. 1579 J. Stubbs Discouerie Gaping Gulf sig. Aviij The Spanish massers had theyr customers more then ynough. a1722 J. Lauder Hist. Notices Sc. Affairs (1848) II. 699 He answered the massers of the Privy Counsell that he had one book..which condemned popery very directly..meaning the bible. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2021). massern.2 Now rare. A person who practises massage; a masseur or masseuse. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > healer > paramedic > [noun] > manipulator > masseur or masseuse rubber1616 strokera1637 strokesman1712 masser1787 shampooer1829 masseur1876 anma1877 masseuse1879 massager1889 massagist1889 massor1899 massotherapist1932 Rolfer1971 massage therapist1977 1787 tr. C.-F. Volney Trav. Syria & Egypt I. xvii. 250 Nor do I envy the Turks either their opium, or their stoves, or their too complaisant Massers! (These Massers are boys who knead the flesh..rub the body gently, and are said to be subservient to the pleasures of the bather.) 1887 D. Maguire Art of Massage (ed. 4) ii. 32 The masser. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXX. 573 A single masser should have strength enough to do the work without too obvious exhaustion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1OEn.21787 |
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