单词 | paternoster |
释义 | paternostern. I. The Lord's Prayer or a form of words resembling it. 1. a. The Lord's Prayer, esp. the Latin version. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > the Lord's Prayer paternostereOE patera1400 Lord's Prayer1538 Our Father1859 eOE Metrical Dialogue of Solomon & Saturn (Corpus Cambr. 422) i. 39 Ðæt gepalmtwigede Pater Noster heofonas ontyneð. OE Ælfric Let. to Wulfsige (Corpus Cambr.) in B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics (1914) 15 Se mæssepreost sceal secgan..þæs godspelles angyt on englisc þam folce. And be þam pater nostre and be þam credan eac. c1175 ( Ælfric Homily (Bodl. 343) in S. Irvine Old Eng. Homilies (1993) 40 Ælce dæȝe we biddæþ ure synne forȝifennysse on þam paternoster. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 25 (MED) Þu singest þe salm þat is cleped pater noster. a1300 (c1275) Physiologus (1991) 87 His muð is get wel unkuð wið pater noster & crede. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 20 Euery brother and sister..shul seyn..xx. sythes, ye pater noster. a1450 (?a1390) J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests (Claud.) (1974) 404 (MED) The pater noster and þe crede Preche þy paresche þou moste nede. 1572 R. Harrison tr. L. Lavater Of Ghostes i. vii. 33 Reherse thy Pater noster and thy Ave Maria. 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 44 All our verball Pater noster Parrats, (that say nothing oftner, and meane nothing seldomer, than, Thy will be done). 1712 J. Arbuthnot John Bull Still in Senses ii. 11 Peg had taken a Fancy not to say her Pater-noster. 1740 R. Challoner Garden of Soul 98 At the Pater noster join with the priest in that sacred prayer. 1815 R. Southey Minor Poems II. 212 The multiplication-table was his Creed, His Pater-noster, and his Decalogue. 1876 G. Bancroft Hist. U.S. (rev. ed.) II. xxx. 248 She could repeat the paternoster fluently enough, but not quite correctly. 1929 E. C. Thomas Lay Folks' Hist. Liturgy xv. 69 Creed. Fraction. Memento for the Living. Pater noster. 1996 K. L. Jolly Pop. Relig. Late Saxon Eng. ii. 69 As a result of the priest's instruction, the laity should at least know the Paternoster and Creed. b. An utterance (or in quot. OE an inscription) of the Lord's Prayer recited or repeated as an act of worship or private devotion. †the space of a paternoster: = paternoster-while n. at Compounds 2 (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > prayer > kinds of prayer > [noun] > the Lord's Prayer > repetition of paternosterOE the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > time it takes to do a particular thing paternoster-whilec1400 the space of a paternoster1561 travel time1851 airtime1928 run time1964 OE Prose Charm: Blessing for Crops (Vitell. E.xviii) in N. R. Ker Catal. MSS containing Anglo-Saxon (1957) 300 Writ on ægðerne sticcan..ælcere ecge an pater noster oð ende. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 23 Þisse wise ȝe maȝen ȝef ȝe wulleð seggen oure Pater nosteres. c1300 Havelok (Laud) (1868) 2997 (MED) Ilke of you, with gode wille, Seye a pater-noster stille. ?1387 T. Wimbledon Serm. (Corpus Cambr.) (1967) 100 (MED) Vnneþe schal a man..þenke on God only þe space of a Pater Noster þat sum oþer þouȝt..entriþ into þe soule. ?c1450 in G. Müller Aus Mittelengl. Medizintexten (1929) 52 Sette þe doun on þin knes, and seye ix pater nostres. 1561 J. Hollybush tr. H. Brunschwig Most Excellent Homish Apothecarye f. 3 Let it so abyde the space of halfe a Pater-noster. 1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene i. iii. sig. C3v Nine hundred Pater nosters euery day, And thrise nine hundred Aues she was wont to say. 1681 N. Grew Musæum Regalis Societatis i. 175 The Worm will die within the space of a Pater Noster. 1798 T. Jones Memoirs (1951) 75 When the Corps was brought to the Grave—No Common prayer-book was to be found—so with a Pater-noster alone it was consigned to ye Earth. 1856 J. H. Newman Callista (1885) 330 He said out his seven pater nosters as he walked. 1927 E. Lewis Trader Horn (1930) i. iv. 61 He'd be down on his knees... Many a Paternoster he's sent up. 1991 P. O'Brian Nutmeg of Consol. (1993) iii. 78 Sleep came at once, jumbling the last words of his paternoster. 2. a. A form of words repeated as or like a prayer, invocation, or charm (in quot. 1594 with reference to the recitation of the Lord's Prayer backwards). Chiefly in black paternoster n. a night spell recited to conjure up evil spirits or devils. devil's paternoster: see devil n. Compounds 3b; white paternoster n. a prayer or charm recited for protection against evil spirits at night; spec. the rhyme beginning ‘Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John’.to say an ape's paternoster: see ape n. 6. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > spell > kinds of night-spellc1390 white paternosterc1390 back-pater-noster1561 counter-charm1601 witches' prayer1663 counter-spell1725 karakia1832 rune1841 black paternoster1851 conjure1873 the world > the supernatural > the occult > sorcery, witchcraft, or magic > enchantment or casting spells > [noun] > spell galderOE lede-runec1000 sigalderc1000 craftOE lede spelc1275 charma1300 conjurisonc1380 conjurationa1398 incantation1412 saunter1562 blessing1572 fascination1572 spell1579 lot1625 cantation1656 cantion1656 take1678 jynx1693 cantrip1719 pishogue1829 brujería1838 paternoster1880 goofer1887 runea1935 c1390 G. Chaucer Miller's Tale 3485 Iesu Crist and seint Benedight, Blesse this hous from euery wikked wight, For the nyghtes uerye, the white Pater Noster [v.r. Pate noster]. 1594 T. Nashe Terrors of Night sig. Diijv Euery thing must bee interpreted backward as Witches say their Pater-noster. 1608 J. White Way to True Church To Rdr. sig. **8 White Pater noster, Saint Peters brother..Open heauen yates, and steike hell yates: And let euery crysom child creepe to it owne mother: White Pater noster, Amen. 1851 H. W. Longfellow Golden Legend ii. 81 This is the Black Pater-noster... Open, open, hell's gates! Shut, shut, heaven's gates. 1880 ‘Ouida’ Moths I. v. 131 Noblesse oblige,..that paternoster of princes. 1971 K. Thomas Relig. & Decline of Magic vii. 181 The so-called White Paternoster, of which a version survives in the children's prayer: ‘Matthew, Mark, Luke and John, Bless the bed that I lie on’. 1993 P. C. Smith in M. M. Tokarcyk & E. A. Fay Working-class Women in Acad. 129 In her room I whispered to her the prayer..I now know is called ‘The White Paternoster’s. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > copiousness > [noun] > prolixity > prolix passage > rigmarole Ragman?1507 rat-rane1513 rat-rhyme1553 reavel-ravel1568 paternoster1651 kyrielle1653 rat1671 rigmarolec1736 nominy?1746 Megillah1911 1651 N. Biggs Matæotechnia Medicinæ Praxeωs 106 It is not my task or designe, neither do I seek or care to supplant them from their pater-noster or All-gospel, being such as my soul abhors. 1669 J. Dryden Wild Gallant i. i. 7 Hold your prating Frances; or I'll put you out of your Pater Nosters with a sorrow to you. 1822 J. Galt Provost xxxi. 236 When the bailie had made an end of his pater-noster. II. A rosary and things resembling it. 3. A set of rosary beads; (formerly also) †each of the special beads in a rosary that indicate that the Lord's Prayer is to be said, of a different size or material from the rest and occurring at regular intervals (obsolete). Now chiefly historical. †pair of paternosters: a set of rosary beads (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] > bead of > indicating paternoster is to be said paternosterc1275 gaud1390 gaudy1434 society > faith > artefacts > implement (general) > rosary > [noun] rosary1548 bead-roll1598 rosario1622 prayer bead1630 fifteen1688 paternoster1870 c1275 Lutel Soth Serm. (Calig.) 67 in R. Morris Old Eng. Misc. (1872) 190 (MED) Atom [= at home] his hire pater noster biloken in hire teye. 1317 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 124 (MED) [One pair of] paternostres [of pearls]. ?a1425 (c1400) Mandeville's Trav. (Titus C.xvi) (1919) 130 The Kyng..hathe abouten his Nekke 300 Perles oryent, gode and grete, and knotted, as Pater Nostres here of Amber. 1463 in S. Tymms Wills & Inventories Bury St. Edmunds (1850) 36 A peyre of bedys with pater nostris of gold, and on eche syde of the paternostris a bede of coral. 1588 T. Hickock tr. C. Federici Voy. & Trauaile f. 38v Great store of Paternosters or beads, made of paltrie glasse. 1615 J. Loiseau de Tourval tr. H. de Feynes Exact Surv. E. Indies 28 A certaine kind of wood called Calamba: for which the Portugalls pay 100. crownes a pound, to make Pater-Nosters with. 1643 Certaine Informations &c. No 14. 127 They found a Portmantle, wherein were Popish Paternosters and Beades. 1798 A. Plumptre Count of Burgundy i. i. 7 I stretch forth my hand to seize a lance, but lay hold only on a pater-noster. 1870 J. A. Froude Hist. Eng. XII. xxxiv. 334 In her hand she held a crucifix of ivory, and a number of jewelled pater~nosters was attached to her girdle. 1969 E. Wilkins Rose-garden Game ii. 59 The..Chatsworth paternoster..has a terminal bead that is a little hinged box, which opens to show two miniature relief carvings. 1995 S. K. Penman When Christ & his Saints Slept (1996) xi. 177 I'll be out straight-away; I left my pater noster in the choir. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > bundle of > of specific measurement or weight paternoster1659 pigc1860 1659 in Quarter Sessions Rec. (N. Riding Rec. Soc.) (1888) VI. 14 A woman for stealing three pounds of paternoster flacks. 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. 106/2 Pater Noster, ten handfulls [of flax] in a strick, is 2 pounds. 5. A thing consisting of a long series of identical objects. a. Angling. In full paternoster line. A fishing line with a weight at the end, to which hooks are attached at intervals. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fishing-line > [noun] > paternoster paternoster1676 1676 I. Walton Compleat Angler (ed. 5) i. xv. 215 Bleak..may be caught with a Pater-noster line, that is, six or eight very small hooks tied along the line one half a foot above the other. 1718 G. Jacob Compl. Sportsman 148 The Bleak..may be taken..with a Line called a Paternoster Line, (viz.) a Line having six or eight small Hooks. 1839 T. C. Hofland Brit. Angler's Man. i. 6 The paternoster is a line used for perch-fishing. 1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 427/1 Fishing with an ordinary two-hook paternoster will catch many more fish. 1931 Hardy's Anglers' Guide 370 A direct pull boom, which can be instantly attached to or detached from the paternoster, without cutting the gut or removing hooks, lead, etc. 1990 Compl. Angler's Guide Spring 65/4 Our end tackles did vary somewhat... Mine was a two boomed stainless paternoster. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > architectural ornament > [noun] > other ornaments pommela1300 crest1430 finial1448 balloon1592 brattishingc1593 knob1610 cartouche1611 ogive1611 fret1626 galace1663 acroterion1664 paternoster1728 semi-urn1742 patera1776 purfling1780 sailing course1807 vesica piscis (also piscium)1809 antefix1819 vesica1820 garland1823 stop1825 Aaron's rod1830 headwork1831 Vitruvian scroll1837 hip knob1838 stelea1840 ball-flower1840 notch-head1843 brandishing1846 buckle1848 cat's-head1848 bucrane1854 cresting1869 semi-ball1875 canephorus1880 crest-board1881 wave pattern1905 husk1934 foliate head1939 green man1939 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Pater-nosters, in Architecture, are certain Ornaments..cut in form of Beads, round, or Oval. 1823–5 P. Nicholson New Pract. Builder 589 Paternosters, a sort of ornament in form of beads, rond or oval, on astragals, &c. 1842 J. Gwilt Encycl. Archit. Gloss. 1013 Paternosters, a species of ornament in the shape of beads, either round or oval, used in baguettes. 6. A lift consisting of a set of linked doorless compartments moving continuously on an endless belt so as to allow entry at any time and exit on any floor. More fully paternoster lift, (chiefly U.S.) paternoster elevator. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > other means of conveyance > [noun] > lift or hoist > types of Jacob's ladder1845 airlift1881 paternoster1912 1912 Engineering Index 31 72/2 The ‘Paternoster’ continuous elevator (Ascensori a movimento continuo, o ascensori ‘Paternoster’). U. Quintavalle. An endless chain elevator with several compartments. 1937 Discovery Dec. 388/2 Lifts and conveyors of the ‘Paternoster’ type have been installed. 1971 ‘R. Lewis’ Error of Judgment vi. 205 A small square landing at the end of the corridor and directly in front of the paternosters. 1990 Foundry Managem. & Technol. (Nexis) Mar. 38 A vertical system of..molds, endlessly recycled to the top of the stack (similar to a ‘paternoster’ elevator's operation). 2002 Industr. Robot (Nexis) 29 Conventional tray and shelving arrangements or paternosters would have required redundant space in order to give a manipulator arm access to each tube. Compounds C1. paternoster-maker n. now historical and rare ΚΠ 1369 in R. R. Sharpe Cal. Wills Court of Husting (1890) II. 132 (MED) [Bonere, Geoffrey], paternostermakere. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 274 There dwelled also turners of Beades, and they were called Pater Noster makers. 1871 Harper's Mag. Feb. 353/2 The paternoster-makers and pearl-makers..formed in the last century one of the numerous trade corporations established in the good city of Paris. 1996 J. C. Cooper Dict. Christianity 205/2 Paternoster Row (London) was probably so named from the rosary or paternoster makers. ΚΠ 1579 T. Churchyard Miserie of Flaunders sig. A.iv The Pater noster men, Or Mal content, thei saie: Hath brought our people suche a plague, as breeds their whole decaie. 1681 Heraclitus Ridens 26 July 2/2 I believe ere long Plotting..will be no Treason in a Paternoster man. ΚΠ 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία 349 Praiers..far more prevalent, than those Verball Pater-noster-Mongers utter over a Bead~roule. ΚΠ 1502 Will of Thomas Bradmere (P.R.O.: PROB. 11/13) f. 78v A Pater noster ryng with a diamonde. C2. paternoster lake n. Physical Geography each of a line of lakes in a glaciated valley. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > [noun] > other types pene-lake1668 salina1697 slough1714 salt lake1763 bayou1766 lagoon1769 cut-off1773 prairie1820 maar1826 boating lake1834 serpentine1837 soda lake1839 bitter lake1843 stream-lake1867 shott1878 crater-lake1879 playa1885 oxbow lake1887 kettle-hole lake1902 mortlake1902 oxbow1902 seepage lake1934 paternoster lake1942 soda pan1976 1942 C. A. Cotton Climatic Accidents Landscape-making xix. 256 If the step-tread basins are occupied by lakes..these may follow one another like beads upon a string—‘paternoster lakes’. 1982 Jrnl. Biogeogr. 9 456/2 These are mainly cirque lakes and some are rock-barrier paternoster lakes. paternoster lift n. see sense 6. paternoster line n. see sense 5a. paternoster peas n. rare the seeds of the jequirity, Abrus precatorius, often used in rosaries. ΚΠ 1904 N.E.D. at Paternoster n. Paternoster-pea. 1991 F. C. Blodi tr. J. Hirschberg Hist. Ophthalmol. X. 285 Jequirity is the Brazilian name for the pea of a bush..which has been known in East India since time immemorial... The smooth hard peas are mainly used to make rosaries and are therefore called by the population ‘paternoster peas’. paternoster pump n. a kind of chain-pump in which a succession of discs or rags is fixed to an endless chain that passes upwards through a tube whose lower end is in water, the discs or rags forming a seal against the tube so that they lift water up inside it. ΚΠ 1874 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. I. 520/1 When packed pistons are used, they are termed paternoster pumps, from the resemblance of the chain and buttons to the rosary. 1965 J. Needham Sci. & Civilisation in China ii. 350 This..had long existed under the name of the ‘paternoster pump’ or ‘rag-and-chain pump’. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > [noun] > kind of prick-tackle1463 ledger-tackle1653 fly-tackle1834 otter1834 bait-tackle1835 paternoster tackle1852 spinning-tackle1856 otter-line1862 traveller1864 skate1882 sea-ledger1887 otter1898 otter-board1901 ripper1925 salmon tackle- 1852 Fraser's Mag. Nov. 555 And the book is a sham..a piece of ‘paternoster tackle’, baited with a gudgeon for German democrats. 1894 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Sept. 427/2 Two rods, on both of which was light paternoster tackle. paternoster wheel n. a device for raising water by means of a series of buckets on a chain; a noria. ΚΠ 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 1637/1 Paternoster-wheel, a water-raising device having a number of buckets on a chain. Named from its resemblance to the rosary. 1975 Isis 66 419/2 The ‘Great Wheels’ of Hamā in Syria and the disputed paternoster wheel in Philo of Byzantium's Pneumatics, are not discussed in depth. paternoster-while n. now historical the time it takes to say a paternoster. ΘΚΠ the world > time > [noun] > stretch, period, or portion of time > time it takes to do a particular thing paternoster-whilec1400 the space of a paternoster1561 travel time1851 airtime1928 run time1964 c1400 (a1376) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Trin. Cambr. R.3.14) (1960) A. v. 189 (MED) He pisside a potel in a paternoster while. 1594 T. Nashe Vnfortunate Traveller sig. K3v A man that hath an vneuitable huge stone hanging only by a haire ouer his head, which he lookes euerie Pater noster while to fall and pash him in peeces, will not he be submissiuely sorrowfull for his transgressions. a1658 A. Farindon Serm. (1849) IV. 241 We may do it in a Pater-noster-while. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. vii. 84 As though the bearer had run for a pater-noster-while. 1944 G. G. Coulston Fourscore Yrs xxxiv. 331 This..would have taken him just about what our medieval ancestors defined as ‘a paternoster-while’. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). paternosterv. Angling. rare. 1. intransitive. To fish with a paternoster line. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > type or method of fishing > [verb (intransitive)] > fish with hook > with number of hooks scratch1659 spiller1836 otter1861 paternoster1891 1891 Field 21 Nov. 774/2 He paternostered while I spun. 1988 Coarse Fishing Handbk. June–July (Suppl.) 27/2 If I want to paternoster, I have a 1 oz. bomb ready tied to about three feet of weak-link line. 2. transitive. To attach (bait) to a paternoster. ΚΠ 1987 Coarse Angler Feb. 37/3 If a basin is being fished then a livebait will be paternostered at the up-wind or flow side of the bay. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.eOEv.1891 |
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