| 单词 | ritual bath |
| 释义 | > as lemmasritual bath ritual bath n. a bath which forms part of a purificatory ritual; spec. = mikvah n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > cleanness (ceremonial) > purification > [noun] > bath in which purification is gained ritual bath1870 mikvah1904 1870 Zion's Herald 10 Feb. 70/2 There is no Migveh (an establishment for taking the ritual bath). 1876 E. A. Bowring tr. V. Alfieri Alcestis II v. i, in Trag. Vittorio Alfieri II. 572 She from the Deities obtain'd the favor, Before she to the ritual bath was taken. 1891 Yearbk. Central Conf. Amer. Rabbis 1890–91 67 Rabbi Eliah Misrachi's idea is that while the mother should take a ritual bath in order to become a Jewess, her boy, who was born at that time, is, according to the law of Moses..not necessitated to be circumcised nor take the ritual bath. 1896 I. Abrahams Jewish Life Middle Ages iv. 73 There were two kinds of communal baths—the ritual bath or mikveh, and the ordinary public bath. 1955 Times 9 May 13/5 There is an elaborate water system, by which the storm water from the neighbouring wadi was..distributed to ritual baths. 1999 N.Y. Times 7 Jan. a3/3 ‘Snip and dunk’ conversions that ask little more than circumcision from the men and immersion in a ritual bath from the women. < as lemmas |
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