单词 | satisfactionary |
释义 | † satisfactionaryn. Christian Church. Obsolete. rare. A believer in the performance of penitential acts as atonement or punishment for sin. Cf. satisfaction n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > morality > virtue > righteousness or rectitude > reform, amendment, or correction > atonement > [noun] > believer in satisfaction by penance satisfactionar1550 satisfactionary1562 society > faith > worship > sacrament > confession > penance > [noun] > performance of > person performing satisfactor1534 satisfactionar1550 satisfactionary1562 1562 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. (new ed.) iii. iv. f. 215v As for those thinges that are commonly found in the bokes of olde writers concerning satisfaction, they little moue me... Many of them..haue..spoken to crabbedly & hardely: but I wil not graunt that they were so rude and vnskilfull as to haue written those thinges in that sense that the new Satisfactionaries [1561 Satisfactionars; L. satisfactionariis] do read them. 1629 J. Gaule Panegyrick 33 in Practique Theories Christs Predict. There be a sort of Satisfactionaries, that boast their abilitie to quit them of their Aduersarie, they dare not say for their Talents, yet for their Farthings. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2019). < n.1562 |
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