单词 | shrift-father |
释义 | shrift-fathern. Obsolete exc. archaic. A confessor. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > confessor > [noun] shriftc897 fatherOE shrift-father?c1225 penancerc1300 confessor1340 shriver1340 penitencera1387 penitentiary?a1475 pentionary1560 confessary1629 confessarius1661 scruple-drawer1701 soul friend1891 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 235 Inoch is to segge swa. þet þe schrift fader witerliche understonde hwat þu wule meanen. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 38 Hi ssollen do be þe rede of holy cherche oþer be hire ssrifte-uaderes. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1876) VI. 457 Kyng Edredus..sente to his schriftfader [MS. γ schrefvader] Donstan. c1430 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1903) 229 To do such penaunce..As þi schrift-fadir þee councellis. a1450 J. Myrc Instr. to Par. Priests 233 How and where he doth þat synne, To hys schryffader he mote þat mynne. 1533 J. Gau in tr. C. Pedersen Richt Vay To Rdr. sig. Aii Quhou thay sal rekkine al thair sinnis to thair schrift fader. 1600 E. Fairfax tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne xi. ix. 197 In close and priuate cell, Where (but shrift fathers) neuer mankinde treades. 1853 D. Rock Church our Fathers III. ii. xi. 19 The penitential, a book which only shrift-fathers..might read. 1882 F. J. Child Eng. & Sc. Pop. Ballads I. i. 26/1 Louise then tries her shrift-father. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.?c1225 |
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