单词 | pentecostal |
释义 | pentecostaln.adj. Christian Church. A. n. 1. An offering formerly made at Whitsuntide by a parishioner to a priest, or by a church to its mother church. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > benefice > other financial matters > [noun] > collection > during Whitsun smoke-farthing1444 pentecostal1549 Chad-farthingc1588 Whitsun-farthing1656 Pentecost money1664 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 3rd Serm. sig. Fviiv I shold haue receyued a certayne duty that they cal a Pentecostal. 1609 in W. Money Hist. Newbury (1887) 529 Pd for Pentecostalles, otherwise called smoke farthings. 1695 W. Kennett Parochial Antiq. ix. 597 This old custome gave birth and name to the Pentecostals or Whitsun-contributions. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 434 Pentecostals, otherwise called Whitsun-Farthings, were Oblations made by the Parishioners to the Parish-Priest at the Feast of Pentecost. 1895 Littell's Living Age 21 Sept. 756/2 The pentecostals due from Surrey could not be got in at all. 1995 D. Lepine Brotherhood of Canons i. 12 Local parishes still brought their pentecostals to Lichfield in procession as late as 1532. 2. Usually in form Pentecostal. A member of a Pentecostal church (see B. 2); an adherent of a Pentecostal movement. Cf. Pentecostalist n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Pentecostalism > [noun] > person pentecostal1904 Pentecostalist1913 1904 in C. R. Paige Alma White's Evangelism (1939) I. 81 The Pentecostals refrain even from circulating an insinuating hat. 1958 E. P. Paulk Your Pentecostal Neighbor 7 Pentecostals have spread..until today they compose a major portion of the Christian body. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Micropædia VII. 858/1 Pentecostals thus hold that a Spirit-baptized believer may receive one or more of the supernatural gifts that were known in the early Church. 1993 Courier-Mail (Brisbane) 17 July (Weekend Suppl.) 5/2 They're Pentecostals. They're the fastest-growing Christian group in the world. But what lies behind the clapping and singing? B. adj. 1. a. Of or relating to Pentecost; resembling or suggestive of the Day of Pentecost, as described in Acts 2. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Pentecost > [adjective] Whitsuntide1611 pentecostala1663 a1663 R. Sanderson Nine Cases of Conscience (1678) ix. 165 Collects, Adventual, Quadragesimal, Paschal, and Pentecostal. 1836 J. H. Newman et al. Lyra Apost. 99 The sacred Pentecostal eve. 1850 F. W. Robertson Serm. 3rd Ser. ix. 116 These are the pentecostal hours of our existence. 1907 Daily Chron. 5 Oct. 5/7 Mrs. Boddy's experience of pentecostal visitation was extraordinary. 1990 Methodist Recorder 7 June 3/1 What Luke describes in Acts 2. 37–47 is the immediate consequence of the Pentecostal outpouring; it is the work of the Holy Spirit. b. In extended use and figurative. Speaking in ‘tongues’, as the Apostles did on the day of Pentecost (see Acts 2:9–11); comprising diverse languages or nationalities. rare. ΚΠ 1896 R. Kipling Five Nations (1903) 90 I have watched them in their tantrums, all that pentecostal crew, French, Italian, Arab, Spaniard, Dutch and Greek, and Russ and Jew. 1973 Times Lit. Suppl. 20 July 832/5 The pentecostal earphone devices (telling you everything you do not want to know in a parody of your native tongue). 1980 R. Adams Girl in Swing (1981) ii. 30 I began amusing myself with Danish... I had been bitten by the bug of tongues and, like an adolescent girl who has taken to horses, could not..have too much of the pentecostal stables. 2. Chiefly U.S. (usually in form Pentecostal, esp. when forming part of the name of an organization, etc.). Of, relating to, or reminiscent of the early Christian Church of the Apostles; spec. relating to or designating a Christian organization or movement which emphasizes the gifts of the Holy Spirit, as recorded in Acts 2.Before the late 19th cent. applied generally to the early Christian Church, or religious activities and movements emulating this, but from c1900 used esp. to designate the Pentecostal movement which was begun by Charles Parham in the United States in that period. Modern pentecostal sects are often perceived to be fundamentalist in outlook, and emphasize the importance of baptism in the Holy Spirit, evidenced by ‘speaking in tongues’, prophecy, healing, and the power to perform exorcisms. Spiritual experience is considered to be more important than formal ministry, and participatory forms of worship, involving clapping, shouting, etc., are usually encouraged. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > other sects and movements > Pentecostalism > [adjective] pentecostal1870 Pentecostalist1913 1870 J. H. Noyes Hist. Amer. Socialisms 32 In 1805 the [Harmonist] Society was formally organized as a Christian Community, on the model of the Pentecostal church. 1889 Decatur (Illinois) Daily Despatch 28 Nov. 3/2 The [church] meetings continued without interruption for nearly six full months,..closing with a great jubilee day meeting..beginning with a pentecostal meeting at 5.30 a.m. 1895 Indiana Democrat 2 May 4/6 Shakers are queer and unintelligible people—a small company striving to live the celestial life,..who fully indorse the communistic principle of the Pentecostal Church. 1900 Daily Northwestern (Oshkosh, Wisconsin) 5 Oct. (Five o'Clock ed.) 8/3 Program for tomorrow... 4.00 p.m.—Pentecostal service, led by Bishop Mallalieu. 1906 Apostolic Faith Oct. 1/1 The waves of Pentecostal salvation are still rolling in at Azusa Street Mission. 1924 Latter Rain Evangel Oct. 10/1 As usual in a real Pentecostal camp meeting, it was harder to stop than to start. 1932 M. Mead Changing Culture of Indian Tribe 108 Most of the poor whites go to the Pentecostal Church. 1970 P. Oliver Savannah Syncopators 56 The hand-clapping..remained a familiar characteristic of the services of the ‘Sanctified’ and ‘Pentecostal’ churches. 2000 N.Y. Times 1 Jan. e24/1 Pentecostal practices like healings, speaking in tongues, casting out demons and laying on of hands upon the sick. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1549 |
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