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单词 rechabite
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Rechabiten.

Brit. /ˈrɛkəbʌɪt/, U.S. /ˈrɛkəˌbaɪt/
Forms: Middle English– Rechabite, 1500s 1900s– Rekabite, 1500s– Recabite, 1600s 1900s– Rekhabite, 1600s–1700s Rehabite.
Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin Rechabita.
Etymology: < post-classical Latin Rechabita (Vulgate) < Rechab (Hellenistic Greek Ρηχαβ < Hebrew Rēḵāḇ , the name of the Israelite (mentioned in 1 Chronicles 2:55) from whom this family descended (Jeremiah 35:2–19)) + classical Latin -īta -ite suffix1, after Hebrew Rēḵāḇīm, plural noun.
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).
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