单词 | private mass |
释义 | private massn. A mass celebrated without a congregation, as in a private oratory. Formerly also derogatory (in early Protestant use): †a mass at which the congregation, though present, is not allowed to take communion (obsolete). Cf. Low Mass n. at low adj. and n.2 Compounds 3. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > without communion private mass1536 union1548 society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > mass > kinds of mass > [noun] > private private mass1885 1536 R. Taverner tr. P. Melanchthon Confessyon Fayth Germaynes f. 17v Almoste no priuate Masses were done, but for lucre and aduauntage. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 6th Serm. sig. Uv Wyth impropriacions he [sc. the Devil] hath turned preachynge in to priuate Masses. 1562 (title) Lewde apologie of pryuate masse. 1564 T. Becon New Catech. in Wks. 453 In times paste, before this deuelishe priuate masse brast in, the minister and the people together dyd receive the holy misteries of the body and bloud of Christ, and not the priest alone, as the manner is now. 1658 in F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads (1884) I. 244 Little Musgrave came to the church-dore; The preist was at private masse. a1776 D. Hume Hist. Eng. (1856) III. 240 He was guilty of a mistake..in allowing private masses, and in requiring the celibacy of the clergy. 1864 E. R. Charles Chron. Schonberg-Cotta Family xxix. 386 No elevation of the host, no saying of private masses for the dead. 1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 565/2 In all private Masses the priest must have at least a server to represent the body of the faithful. 1961 B. Thompson Liturgies Western Church iii. 45 The prevalence of private Mass, out of which Low Mass rose to great prominence. 1993 Vanity Fair (N.Y.) Sept. 108/1 Four days before the private Mass, I had chased his Popemobile as he toured western Sicily. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1536 |
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