| 单词 | repetition sermon |
| 释义 | > as lemmasrepetition sermon repetition sermon n. now historical a sermon preached from memory on Low Sunday, forming a synthesis of the four preceding sermons preached on the Easter feast days. Recorded earliest in figurative use. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > recited by heart bosom-sermon1594 repetition sermon1624 1624 J. Donne Deuotions xvi. 402 I could not heare the Sermon, and these latter bells are a repetition Sermon to mee. 1688 D. Granville in Misc. (Surtees No. 37) 43 It is a custom in the University of Oxford once in the year in the University Church to have a Repetition-sermon..: that repetition task..is the most difficult employment of the whole year. 1780 E. Middleton Biogr. Evangelica II. 123 While the bell was ringing, he committed to his memory a repetition sermon, and pronounced it without hesitation. 1986 R. Greaves in L. S. Sutherland & L. G. Mitchell Hist. Univ. Oxf. V. 417 On Low Sunday a preacher was nominated to preach a ‘repetition sermon’ in which he collated from memory the sermons preached over the Easter feast-days. < as lemmas |
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