| 单词 | relic sunday |
| 释义 | > as lemmasRelic Sunday Relic Sunday n. [compare post-classical Latin dies Dominica reliquiarum (a1564 in a British source)] now historical a Sunday on which the relics preserved in a church were specially venerated. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Relic Sunday (3rd after midsummer) > [noun] Relic Sunday1450 1450–2 in 5th Rep. Royal Comm. Hist. MSS: Pt. 1 (1876) App. 520 in Parl. Papers (C. 1432) XL. 1 For to make a wacchefyre there, the Fryday byfore Relek Sunday, in the 29th year 2d. c1525 R. Arnold Chron. (new ed.) sig. Cii On Relyk sonday in the aftyr none was a grete thondre and tempest. 1708 Rider's Brit. Merlin On Relique-Sunday (being the Sund. fortnight after Midsum.). 1844 J. Stoughton Notices of Windsor 117 Soon after, on a relic Sunday, when every man appeared with a relic in his hand, this chorister had none. 1995 A. D. Brown Pop. Piety in Late Medieval Eng. x. 236 Robert Testwood had to speak out against the practices of Relic Sunday and the cult of Henry VI. < as lemmas |
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