| 单词 | setting-up |
| 释义 | > as lemmassetting-up setting-up n. U.S. dialect an all-night vigil, esp. one kept by relatives beside the body of a dead person (cf. to set up 37 at set v.1 Phrasal verbs 2). ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > vigil > [noun] watch971 wakingc1175 wakec1200 vigil?1504 pernoctation1633 setting-up1835 1835 C. Gilman Recoll. Southern Matron in Southern Rose 14 Nov. 41/2 This solemnity is usually styled by the negroes ‘a setting up’. 1905 ‘P. Pennington’ Diary 25 Dec. in Woman Rice Planter (1913) viii. 272 All the grown servants have gone to the ‘setting up’, which is one of the strongest articles of their creed..the feeling that they must not be found in their beds on this mysterious night when the King of the world was born. 1949 ‘J. Nelson’ Backwoods Teacher xv. 160 Most of them stayed a few minutes and departed, perhaps leaving one member of the family for the ‘settin'-up’. < as lemmas |
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