单词 | simple feast |
释义 | > as lemmassimple feast a. Designating a feast day or annual celebration which is celebrated with the offices appropriate to an ordinary saint's day, as opposed to feasts of greater ecclesiastical importance (cf. feast n.); (also) designating offices of this type. Chiefly in simple feast.The contrast with double feast suggests the influence of sense A. 11, and this sense was probably originally understood as belonging to branch A. II. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [adjective] > semi-double simple1389 semi-double1728 1389 in R. W. Chambers & M. Daunt Bk. London Eng. (1931) 49 (MED) On sondayes & on othere symple festes two schul be liȝt of þe fyue tapres atte heiȝe masse. a1500 Rule Minoresses in W. W. Seton Two 15th Cent. Franciscan Rules (1914) 113 (MED) Festis simples or lasse be þo festis whoche be nat dowblis, ne of þe holi Croys, ne of þe awngelis, ne of þe apostlis..ne festis solempnis. 1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 663/2 This Festum..groweth in it selfe and multiplieth..into feast double, and to feast simple. 1639 R. F. tr. A. S. de Salo Admirable Method ii. x. 355 On simple feasts and those of lesser obligation, it may suffice before we go to bed, to incline only once or twice in their reuerence. 1722 N. Bailey Antiq. London & Westm. 190 On other simple Feasts, two to be lighted at High Mass. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 344/1 On lesser feasts the office was simple—i.e. the feast was merely commemorated. 1913 Catholic Encycl. IX. 1981/1 On feriæ and simple feasts there is only one nocturn. 2005 A. Tacconi Cathedral & Civic Ritual Late Med. & Renaissance Florence ii. 75 At Santa Maria del Fiore it was celebrated as a simple feast. < as lemmas |
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