| 单词 | mother house |
| 释义 | > as lemmasmother house mother house n. the founding house of a religious order. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > [noun] > religious foundation > principal mother house1661 1661 Manifest Gen. Chapter Catholick Eng. Clergy 3 Dr. Leyburn does calumniate us, as being Enemies to our Mother-house, the Colledge of Doway. a1773 A. Butler Lives Saints (1779) III. 243 When in 1504 the abbey of Mount Cassino joined this Congregation, it took the name of this mother-house. 1840 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici x. i. 9 Cisteaux, the mother house of the order, [was] founded..in 1098... La Ferté was the first branch house. 1932 C. P. Curran in F. J. Sheed Irish Way 269 In this spirit she worked for ten years in the Mother-house and novitiate. 1999 M. Greenwood et al. Ireland: Rough Guide ii. xvi. 559 The Cistercian order, of which Mellifont was the mother house in Ireland. < as lemmas |
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