单词 | black canon |
释义 | > as lemmasblack canon black canon n. [from the colour of the habit worn; compare post-classical Latin canon niger (c1220)] now chiefly historical a canon regular of St Augustine (see note at canon n.2 1). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > chapter > member of chapter > regular > [noun] black canon1447 1447 O. Bokenham Lives of Saints (Arun.) (1938) l. 137 (MED) In an old pryory Of blake chanons, hyr oo foot is. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 248 About the quhilk tyme sanct Austyne..began the ordour of blak channonis. a1672 A. Wood Life (1848) 156 The abbey there, originally built for Black Canons. 1722 J. Stevens Hist. Antient Abbeys II. 69 By reason of their black Habit, worn over their white Surplices..generally call'd either Black Canons, or Canons of St. Augustin. 1850 Sketches Grange & Neighbourhood vii. 75 There was an hospice also, and the black canons were..ready to give the traveller spiritual counsel. 1996 Holiday Which? Mar. 100/1 Bolton Abbey marks the gateway to the dale and was home to the Black Canons—Augustinian monks who followed vows of poverty and chastity—until the Dissolution. < as lemmas |
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