单词 | secular abbot |
释义 | > as lemmassecular abbot a. Of members of the clergy: Living ‘in the world’ and not in monastic seclusion, as distinguished from ‘regular’ and ‘religious’. secular canon: see canon n.2 1. secular abbot: a person not a monk, who had the title and part of the revenues, but not the functions of an abbot.In early use frequently placed after the noun, as canon secular, priest secular. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > regular > [noun] > not secular canonc1290 c1290 St. Edmund 393 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 442 At salesburi he was i-maket Canoun seculer. 1297 R. Gloucester's Chron. 282 Canons þer were Seculers. a1300 Cursor Mundi 27244 In scrift..enentes clergis seculers to þe preist at frain it feres o symony. c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. I. 73 And þus boþ clerkes seculers and þese newe religiouse forsaken þes two weies. a1400 Minor Poems from Vernon MS xxxii. 1054 I þat am in Religioun, I naue no pouwer to ȝiue no mete, Ne drinke..Þerfore me were beter seculer. 1402 Polit. Poems (Rolls) II. 23 Why be ye evill apaid that secular priestes should preach the gospell? a1513 H. Bradshaw Lyfe St. Werburge (1521) i. Prol. sig. m.ii From secular chanons to monkes religious. 1530 St. German's Secunde Dyaloge Doctour & Student xl. f. ciiv Goodes gotten by a chanon seculer by reason of hys chyrche..shall not go to hys successoure. 1548 in W. Page Certificates Chantries County of York (1895) II. 426 A seculer man, deane or incombent there. 1673 in O. Airy Essex Papers (1890) I. 138 I made use of some Fryers, who all ways have their litle wrangles wth ye secular Clergy. 1716 M. Davies Crit. Hist. 86 in Athenæ Britannicæ III Cardinal Rochefaucault being the Secular or Commendatory Abbot thereof. 1782 E. Burke Penal Laws against Irish Catholics in Wks. (1801) VI. 235 The secular clergy..are universally fallen into such contempt, that [etc.]. 1806 J. Lingard Antiq. Anglo-Saxon Church II. xi. 255 The conversion of the conventual clergy into secular canons. 1868 E. A. Freeman Hist. Norman Conquest (1876) II. vii. 85 The chapter was formed of secular canons. 1874 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. I. viii. §84 Before the middle of the eighth century..the secular were synodically divided from the monastic clerks. 1884 Manch. Examiner 25 Feb. 5/5 A few secular priests have been invited to co-operate with the resident clergy. < as lemmas |
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