单词 | bonzery |
释义 | bonzeryn. Now rare. Chiefly in China and Japan: a Buddhist monastery. Cf. bonze n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] > Buddhist > Japanese bonzery1788 1788 J. Priestley Lect. Hist. v. lvii. 453 There are more than six thousand bonzeries in the city and district of Peking. 1854 New Monthly Mag. Dec. 386 The theatres often form part of the pagodas and the bonzeries. 1886 W. Conn tr. M. Dubard Japanese Life, Love & Legend v. 34 Nearly all the temples..are houses of refuge for priests driven from their bonzeries. 1900 Christian Work 23 Aug. 250/2 When the little fellow is about three years old he is taken to a bonzery and put down in front of a big idol. 1958 A. Wainhouse tr. S. De Beauvoir Long March v. 234 The ninth century brought another persecution that laicized 26,000 monks and nuns and closed 4,600 bonzeries and pagodas. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1788 |
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