单词 | passionary |
释义 | passionaryn. Christian Church. A book containing accounts of the sufferings of saints and martyrs, for reading on their feast days; a martyrology. In early use also (occasionally): a written account of a particular saint's life. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for feast days > containing saints' lives passionalOE passionary1447 passionara1500 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) 4909 (MED) She preyid..þat noon hous where were hyr passyonarye Wyth feer ner lyhtnyng shuld neuyr myskarye. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 755/16 Hoc passionari[um], a passionari. a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i.vii. sig. c.ii v As declareth, the true Passyonary A boke wherin, her holy lyfe wryten is. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. xxvii. 371 The passionaries of the female saints, Werburgh, Ethelred, and Sexburgh, which were kept for public edification in the choir of the church. 1853 D. Rock Church of our Fathers IV. xii. 212 The Passional, or Passionary, had in it the lives of martyrs and saints. 1868 J. Oswald Etymol. Dict. Eng. Lang. 297 Passionary, a book in which are described the sufferings of saints and martyrs. 1913 E. R. Barker Rome of Pilgrims & Martyrs xi. 162 The Passion of Procopius..is preserved in a Latin Passionary. 1960 Speculum 35 307 The outstanding works of the period are the Passionary of Abbess Cunegonde (about 1320), some scenes of which attain an almost unparalled [sic] intensity of feeling. 1994 Speculum 69 1247 I believe that a prosification of a whole Old French hagiographic poem could very well find its way into a prose passionary. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1447 |
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