| 单词 | mother superior |
| 释义 | > as lemmasMother Superior a. A female head or superior of a religious community (now usually more fully Mother Superior or, more specifically, Mother Prioress, Mother Vicaress, etc.). Formerly also (occasionally): †a female founder of a religious order (obsolete). Also: a senior nun in a religious community other than the superior. Cf. Mother General n. at Compounds 7.As a title or form of address, Mother is typically used of a senior nun other than the Mother Superior, of whom Reverend Mother is used. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > abbess > [noun] abbotesseOE mothereOE dame?c1225 abbessc1300 matriarch1606 maternity1693 domina1751 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > conventual head > [noun] > female presidentress1650 Reverend Mother1658 superioress1669 provostess1871 Mother Superior1907 Mother Vicaress1930 Mother Prioress1961 Sister Superior1991 eOE tr. Bede Eccl. Hist. (Tanner) iv. xxiv. 340 Þa weahte heo ealle þa sweostor, & heht to cirican gangan; & in gebedum & on sealmsonge for heora modor sawle georne þingodon. a1225 ( Rule St. Benet (Winteney) (1888) 129 Ðeo abbodesse..sy hlæfedie & moder ȝehaten. ?a1425 tr. Catherine of Siena Orcherd of Syon (Harl.) (1966) 1 (MED) Religyous modir & deuoute sustren..chosen bisily to laboure at the hous of Syon. a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 84 Make þey professioun in hondes of þe Abbesse..in þis manere. I..bihote to god & owre ladi blissid mayde marie.., in ȝoure hondes, moder, to lyue [etc.]. 1526 R. Whitford tr. Martiloge 110v The canonizacyon..of our holy moder saynt Birgit. 1571 Acts Parl. Scotl. (1814) III. 59 Landis..in few..of the priouris or prioressis moderis and conventis of sindrie frieris and nunnis places. a1616 W. Shakespeare Measure for Measure (1623) i. iv. 85 I will about it strait; No longer staying, but to giue the Mother Notice of my affaire. View more context for this quotation 1671 A. Woodhead in tr. Life St. Teresa Pref. sig. a1 Very eminent in this kind are these Works of the Holy Mother Teresa. 1714 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1971) 62 123 To Reverend Mother Abbess of Gravelin. 1798 J. Baillie De Monfort v. iv, in Series of Plays I. 404 And you have wisely done, my rev'rend mother. 1820 W. Scott Abbot I. xii. 243 They call me Lady Abbess, or Mother at the least, who address me. 1883 Mrs. Craik in Longman's Mag. Jan. 306 I could understand how the Mother was just the woman to be head of a community like this. 1907 Athenæum 2 Nov. 545/3 The astute yet saintly mother-superior. 1930 E. Ferber Cimarron 44 Mother Bridget was in the Mission vegetable garden, superintending the cutting of the great rosy stalks of late pie plant. 1930 Universe 28 Mar. 4/4 The Mother Vicaress of the Franciscan Convent, Taunton..died last week and was buried on Saturday. 1961 John o' London's 13 Apr. 423/4 Much of what the Mother-Prioress reveals is deeply interesting to anybody. 1989 C. Harkness Time of Grace i. 46 Reverend Mother looked at us coldly. 1998 L. Purves Holy Smoke iii. 24 A letter..from Mother Mary of the Trinity at the Bangkok Mater Mei convent. < as lemmas |
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