单词 | pillarist |
释义 | pillaristn. 1. An ascetic who lives on a pillar; a stylite. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > anchorite > [noun] > stylite pillarista1638 pillar-monka1638 stylitea1638 pillar-percher1791 aerialist1846 a1638 J. Mede Apostasy Latter Times (1641) 109 Holy Simeon, surnamed Stylita or the Pillarist. 1871 R. B. Vaughan St. Thomas of Aquin II. 265 (note) The Stylitæ or Pillarists, lived on pillars. 1975 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 7 Feb. 12/3 (crossword clue) Pillarists [= stylites]. 2001 Ethics 111 320 A small set of exemptions..relieve the pillarist almost completely from any involvement with the rest of the polity. ΚΠ 1814 J. W. Croker in L. J. Jennings Croker Papers (1884) I. iii. 58 I quite agree with the Committee in its predilection for a pillar [as a monument to Wellington]. I was one of the pillarists in the Nelson case. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1638 |
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