单词 | postle |
释义 | 'postlen. archaic in later use. = apostle n. Also in postle spoon: an Apostle spoon (see Apostle spoon n.). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > apostle > [noun] the twelvec950 apostlec975 'postleOE OE (Northumbrian) Rushw. Gospels: Luke xxiv. 10 Quae dicebant haec ad apostolos : ðaðe cwedun ðas to ðæm postolum [OE Lindisf. ða apostolas]. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 5785 Þe þridde Goddspellwrihhte..Lucas..ne wass nan posstell. a1400 Siege Jerusalem (Laud) (1932) 1303 (MED) For þritty penyes in a poke his postel [v.r. apostel] hym solde. c1400 (c1378) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Laud 581) (1869) B. vi. 151 (MED) Ne posteles, but þey preche conne and haue powere of þe bisschop. c1480 (a1400) St. Machor 1552 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) II. 45 Ihesus his postulis xij ymang. a1500 (c1465) in J. Gairdner Three 15th-cent. Chrons. (1880) 12 (MED) Seint Austyne is called postill of Englond, for he brought fyrst Cristendome to Englisshe folke. 1531 in H. Littlehales Medieval Rec. London City Church (1905) 47 Item, xiij spons with the postells. 1561 R. Norvell Myroure of ane Christiane f. 49v Usand the doctryne of the postle Paull. 1578 in P. C. D. Brears Yorks. Probate Inventories 1542–1689 (1972) 50 Item 5 sylver spones with postelles on with gilded endes. a1627 T. Middleton Chast Mayd in Cheape-side (1630) iii. 33 Two great Postle Spoones. 1771 ‘Claudero’ Misc. Prose & Verse (ed. 4) 11 Unlike those, like 'postle Paul, Erskine liv'd by honest call. 1844 J. Stephen Ess. Eccl. Biogr. (1850) I. 26 And held them [sc. their crowns and mitres]..immediately, as tenants in capite, from the one legitimate representative of the great postle. 1920 Blackwood's Mag. Feb. 217/2 ‘Good ole 'Postle [i.e. Luke] Grimmer!’ ‘Three chares for the 'Postle!’ 1980 S. A. Brown Coll. Poems i. 55 Give a good talkin' to To yo' favorite 'postle Peter, An' rub the po' head Of mixed-up Judas, An' joke awhile wid Jonah. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.OE |
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