| 单词 | pulpit cross |
| 释义 | > as lemmaspulpit cross pulpit cross n. a cross set up in a burial ground or in a locality lacking a church, from the steps or raised base of which sermons were often preached; a preaching-cross. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > symbol (general) > Christian symbols or images > [noun] > cross > monumental palm cross1442 high cross1457 pulpit cross1598 Calvary1815 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 268 About the middest of this [sc. Pauls] church yard, is a Pulpit Crosse of timber, mounted vpon steppes of stone,..in which, are sermons preached..euery Sunday in the forenoone. 1766 J. Entick Surv. London vi, in Hist. London III. 414 For many years there remained uncovered part of the church-yard, and the pulpit cross in it, like that which stood in St. Paul's church-yard. 1868 Atlantic Monthly Dec. 674/2 He was appointed to preach at St. Paul's Cross, a pulpit cross erected in the churchyard of St. Paul's Cathedral. 1961 Proc. Royal Musical Assoc. 46 The Spital Cross was an ancient pulpit cross, which stood on what was once the churchyard of the old Priory of St. Marie Spital. 2002 L. Manley in D. Loewenstein & J. Mueller Cambr. Hist. Early Mod. Eng. Lit. xiii. 407 Critics described the booksellers' stalls in Paul's Churchyard, adjacent to the pulpit Cross, as a ‘confused world of trumpery’. < as lemmas |
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