单词 | rechabite |
释义 | Rechabiten. 1. According to the Old Testament and Hebrew scriptures: a member of an Israelite family descended from Rechab, which refused to drink wine, live in houses, or cultivate fields and vineyards (see Jeremiah 35). ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > division of mankind by physical characteristics > Semite > [noun] > Jew > of specific dynasties or sects Levite1377 Rechabitea1382 Simeonite1530 Danite1535 Yemenite1566 Hasmonean1583 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Jer. xxxv. 3 Jeconye..and alle his sonus, and al the hous of Rechabitis [L. Rechabitarum]. 1535 Bible (Coverdale) Jer. xxxv. 3 The whole housholde off the Rechabites. 1580 W. Fulke Retentiue 13 Rechabites, who had their name of their family, and not of any Sect in perfection. a1641 R. Montagu Acts & Monuments (1642) 449 That hydropotæ, or drinke-waters were onely amongst the Rechabites. 1680 R. Baxter Church-hist. Govt. Bishops 351 The Rechabites that drank not Wine when Ieremy bade them. 1772 W. Jones Diss. Offering Up 16 The patriarchal example was adopted by the Rechabites. 1852 A. P. Stanley Serm. & Ess. on Apostolical Age (ed. 2) v. 339 A priest who was also a Rechabite, and therefore not only not of Levitical, but not even of Jewish descent. 1871 S. R. Asbury tr. C. W. E. Naegelsbach Bk. Jeremiah 306/1 in P. Schaff et al. tr. J. P. Lange et al. Comm. Holy Script.: O.T. XII The house of the Rechabites must be taken in a gentilic sense. 1918 Biblical World 52 334 The Rechabites..preferred the simple nomadic life and took a vow never to plant vineyards or build houses. 1948 M. L. King in R. Luker & P. A. Russell Papers of Martin Luther King, Jr. (1992) 179 Not only among such extremists as the Nazirites and Rechabites, but among the great prophets as well. 1997 Church Times 22 Aug. 14/4 James continued to live a strongly Jewish Rechabite way of life. 2. In extended use: a person who abstains from alcoholic drink; spec. a member of the Independent Order of Rechabites, a friendly society of teetotallers founded in 1835. Also (see quot. 1860): a person who dwells in a tent. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > insurance > [noun] > insurance association or friendly society Rechabite1637 friendly society1684 provident society1771 provident club1797 benefit-society1801 benefit-club1812 burial-society1812 ménage1815 burial club1848 forestry1861 tontine1871 shepherdry1900 approved society1911 the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence > total abstainer water-drinker1440 abstainerc1475 Rechabite1637 drink-watera1641 hydropotist1678 hydropot1727 teetotal1834 teetotaller1834 teetotalist1840 Washingtonian1842 Good Templar1853 teetotalleress1854 blue-ribbonist1858 nephalist1861 total abstainer1862 blue-ribbonite1867 totec1870 Templar1874 blue ribboner1878 total abstinent1882 water butt1882 white ribboner1886 non-drinker1910 pioneer1912 T.T.1922 1637 J. Taylor Phoenix of these Late Times sig. F2 From Wine thou wa'st a duteous Rechabite..Small Beere, a Cawdle, Milke, or water-gruell..maintain'd thy dayly duell Against the witching World. c1681 (title) The English Rechabite, or a defyance to Bacchus and all his works. a1721 M. Prior Wandering Pilgrim in Misc. Wks. (1740) II. 9 A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale. 1792 J. Hurdis Sir Thomas More i. 8 So strict In his refusal of the grape's pure blood, That he was styl'd the sober Rechabite And wine-abhorring mussulman. 1850 C. M. Kirkland Fountain & Bottle 323 She's a Rechabite. It would astonish you to hear her lecture against tavern-keepers and rum-drinkers. 1860 W. H. Russell My Diary in India 1858–9 II. xviii. 345 Cone after cone of canvas offers brief shelter to the Rechabite. 1913 N. Munro Fatal Clock in Jimmy Swan (1917) 29 He was in the U.F. choir and in the Rechabites. 1941 Times 8 Apr. 7/4 A token of affection for one whose drinking was moderate enough..to infuriate all the Rechabites in the parish. 1991 W. McIlvanney Strange Loyalties 62 He looked as happy as a Rechabite at a wine-tasting. 1999 A. Findlay Shale Voices 111 His Uncle John held posts in the Co-operative Movement, Rechabites and so on. Derivatives ˈRechabitism n. the practice of abstaining from alcoholic drink; the principles or practice of the friendly society of Rechabites. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > thirst > abstention from drinking > [noun] > total abstinence total abstinence1831 teetotalism1834 Rechabitism1841 Good Templarism1859 nephalism1860 blue-ribbonism1867 total abstention1880 temperance1887 Templarism1888 1841 Hist. Teetotalism in Devonshire 88 Mr. John Shapcott, and Mr. J. Bale, of this city, have taken very active and praiseworthy interest in connection with the cause of Rechabitism. 1870 Rechabite & Temperance Mag. Jan. 8 To extend the blessings of Rechabitism throughout..the land. 1931 Times 24 Aug. 7/4 The oversea districts keep active in their efforts to spread the cause of Rechabitism. 1980 19th-cent. Fiction 35 340 Dempster's drunken aggression and Tryan's high-minded Rechabitism both result from their thwarted purposes. 2003 M. Tyldesley Study Three Communal Movements iii. 68 'Rechabitism' or withdrawal from the world. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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