单词 | monsignor |
释义 | monsignorn. Roman Catholic Church. 1. Chiefly with capital initial. An honorific title of, or form of address to, a Roman Catholic of ecclesiastical rank, as a prelate, archbishop, etc., indicating a distinction bestowed by the Pope, sometimes in conjunction with an office. (Usually preceding a surname, and sometimes also a first name, or occasionally a designation of office). Abbreviated Mgr., Msgr. Cf. monseigneur n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] bishopc893 prelate?c1225 prince of priests?c1225 high priestc1400 pontificala1450 emperor clerkc1475 gentleman untrial1486 dignitya1525 Aaron1565 hierarch1574 presul1577 monsignor1579 church governor1588 pontiff1589 archbishop1600 monseigneur1601 monsignor1611 sheikh1613 protomist1619 Mar1622 hyperochality1637 protarch1654 pontifex1655 prelatical1658 dignitary1672 hierophanta1676 Monsig.1698 ecclesiarch1781 arch-pontiff1790 Mgr1848 Msgr.1868 patriarch- 1579 R. Persons Lett. & Mem. (1942) I. 15 Monsignor Spetiano a Prelate (as you knowe) of great reputation, of singular Creditt with the Cardinall. 1597 T. Stapleton Let. 6 July in T. F. Knox 1st & 2nd Diaries Eng. Coll., Douay (1878) App. 393 I have nowe thre wekes past receaved a letter from Monsignor Malvasia. 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 43 Bilson hath decipher'd us all the galanteries of Signore and Monsignore, and Monsieur. 1670 G. Havers tr. G. Leti Il Cardinalismo di Santa Chiesa iii. iii. 320 He confirm'd Monsignor the Under-Datary likewise. 1772 Philos. Trans. 1771 (Royal Soc.) 61 85 This..may be considered as an additional argument in support of Sig. Olivieri's and Monsignore Mario Guarnacci's opinion. 1841 H. T. Tuckerman Rambles & Reveries 55 He despatched Monsignor Napolitano, afterwards Cardinal, with power to re-establish the good fame of the papal court. 1877 Spirit of Times 24 Nov. 443 (advt.) The late Monsigneur Nardi, Prothonotary to His Holiness Pius IX. 1884 Men of Time (ed. 11) 218/2 Monsignor Capel..was named private chamberlain to Pope Pius IX., in 1868. 1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 91/2 This request was acceded to, and the pope despatched Monsignor Massaja to Shoa. 1950 Public Opinion Q. 14 291 In a conversation between the Communist Walter Ulbricht and Monsignore Dr. Joseph Kaiser, Ulbricht acknowledged the heroic struggle of the Church in Nazi Germany. 1996 J. Doran Red Doran 228 She and Monsignor Coulter got on like a house on fire. 2. A churchman holding this status; a person entitled to be addressed as ‘Monsignor’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > [noun] bishopc893 prelate?c1225 prince of priests?c1225 high priestc1400 pontificala1450 emperor clerkc1475 gentleman untrial1486 dignitya1525 Aaron1565 hierarch1574 presul1577 monsignor1579 church governor1588 pontiff1589 archbishop1600 monseigneur1601 monsignor1611 sheikh1613 protomist1619 Mar1622 hyperochality1637 protarch1654 pontifex1655 prelatical1658 dignitary1672 hierophanta1676 Monsig.1698 ecclesiarch1781 arch-pontiff1790 Mgr1848 Msgr.1868 patriarch- 1611 in M. C. Questier Newslett. Archpresbyterate G. Birkhead (1998) 132 Not forgettinge my dew rememberance of all service to your monsignor..I leave yow to godes holy protection. 1768 G. Baretti Acct. Manners & Customs Italy II. 168 Their cardinals and principal monsignori's seem in general to have a greater turn for the science of politics than for any other. 1848 W. W. Story Graffiti d'Italia 127 That office our good Monsignor Gave her poor husband from pure love of him. 1870 B. Disraeli Lothair (new ed.) lxiii There were some cardinals in the apartment and several monsignori. 1896 Cent. Mag. Feb. 595 ‘Monsignori’ are not necessarily bishops, nor even consecrated priests. 1927 Amer. Mercury Feb. 184/1 In descending order, come Archbishops, Bishops, monsignori (protonotaries apostolic, vicars-general, domestic prelates, papal chamberlains), and simple priests. 1969 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 34 789 Those priests (neither pastors nor monsignors) who constitute the bottom of the American Catholic stratification system. 1994 Population & Devel. Rev. 20 223 One need not fantasize about a Vatican situation room with monsignori plotting strategy to combat abortion. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1579 |
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