| 单词 | monthly meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmonthly meeting monthly meeting n. a meeting held once a month; spec. (also Monthly Meeting) (a meeting of) the administrative body of a local congregation of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun] monthly meeting1641 quarterly meeting1675 Yearly Meeting?1680 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 17 To solemnize some religious monthly meeting different from the Sabbath. 1666 G. Fox Coll. Christian Epist. (1698) 236 And read this in your Monthly Meetings, when you are gathered together. 1785 Bk. Discipline New Eng. Yearly Meeting Soc. Friends 39 Overseers are to render account of their service to the monthly meeting at least once a quarter. 1917 E. Grubb What is Quakerism? v. 99 These officers [sc. Overseer and Elder] are appointed, triennially, by the Monthly Meetings. 1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty 129 When Quaker tea merchant Joseph Fry went bankrupt in 1828 his monthly meeting disowned him. Monthly Meeting monthly meeting n. a meeting held once a month; spec. (also Monthly Meeting) (a meeting of) the administrative body of a local congregation of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun] monthly meeting1641 quarterly meeting1675 Yearly Meeting?1680 1641 J. Milton Reason Church-govt. 17 To solemnize some religious monthly meeting different from the Sabbath. 1666 G. Fox Coll. Christian Epist. (1698) 236 And read this in your Monthly Meetings, when you are gathered together. 1785 Bk. Discipline New Eng. Yearly Meeting Soc. Friends 39 Overseers are to render account of their service to the monthly meeting at least once a quarter. 1917 E. Grubb What is Quakerism? v. 99 These officers [sc. Overseer and Elder] are appointed, triennially, by the Monthly Meetings. 1991 H. Barty-King Worst Poverty 129 When Quaker tea merchant Joseph Fry went bankrupt in 1828 his monthly meeting disowned him. < as lemmas |
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