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单词 spiritual father
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spiritual father
a. A male religious teacher, counsellor, or leader regarded as having a paternal relationship with those whom he advises; a spiritual director; a confessor. Also more fully spiritual father. Also as a form of address.With quot. 1614, cf. Job 29:16: ‘I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.’ (King James Bible).ghostly father, godfather, shrift-father, etc.: see the first element.
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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
society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > one who performs
fatherOE
catechizerc1449
mystagoguec1540
oracle1548
catechist1564
guru1613
director1671
swami1901
society > faith > worship > preaching > catechesis > [noun] > one who performs > to whom one owes one's spiritual life
fatherOE
OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Royal) (1997) xxvii. 407 Þa ðe for heofonan rices myrhðe forlætað fæder & moder..hi underfoð manega gastlice fæderas.
OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxii. 37 Ut fratrum unusquisque suę conscientię reatum patri spirituali..per humilem reuelet confessionem : þæt gebroþra æghwylc hys inngehydes gylt fæder gastlicum..þurh eadmode geopenige andetnesse.
a1225 (c1200) Vices & Virtues (1888) 7 (MED) Mine gastliche faderes.
?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 235 Inoch is to segge swa. þet þe schrift fader witerliche understonde hwat þu wule meanen.
c1384 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(2)) (1850) 1 Cor. iv. 15 If ȝe han ten thousandis of litle maistris in Crist Jhesu, but not manye fadris [L. patres].
a1393 J. Gower Confessio Amantis (Fairf.) i. l. 1865 Min holy fader, so I wile.
c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. i. l. 120 Ȝe sholde be here fadres and techen hem betere.
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Parson's Tale (Ellesmere) (1877) §909 So is his [sc. a child's] godfader his fader espiritueel.
a1438 Bk. Margery Kempe i. 44 (MED) Þe ankyr of þe Frer Prechowrys in Lenn, whech was principal gostly fadyr to þis creatur.
?a1500 (a1471) Brut (Lyell) in J. S. Davies Eng. Chron. (1856) 64 (MED) There thay slow him horribly, thair fader and thair bisshoppe.
1567 W. Allen Treat. Def. Priesthod 226 We call them Confessours, & of olde in Grece, they were named Spirituall maisters or Fathers.
1597 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie v. lxiv. 156 It sauoureth more of pietie to giue them their old accustomed name of fathers and mothers in God.
1614 W. Kinsman & E. Kinsman tr. A. de Villegas Lives of Saints 620 All his [sc. St Thomas Becket's] other vertues:..so good a father to the poore, that none departed from him without reliefe.
1651 D. Cawdrey Inconsistencie Independent Way 164 In the Church, the Ministers are spirituall fathers to the members.
1677 Lady Chaworth in MSS Duke of Rutland (12th Rep. Hist. MSS Comm.) (1889) App. v. 43 The D[uchess] of Portsmouth..has promised it to her ghostly father.
1717 T. Brett Independency Church upon State 50 Although God have given the Bishop a Right to such Maintenance, yet if he has it not, he is no less the Father of that Flock than if he had it.
1769 H. Venn in Life (1835) 152 A lady said to me, ‘You, Sir, are my spiritual father!’
1783 H. Bright Praxis 59 My Fathers and Mothers in a religious, spiritual and godly Sense, or Proparents, who covenanted for me at the Baptismal Font.
1828 T. S. Grimshawe Mem. L. Richmond (1829) 132 He was regarded by them [sc. the communicants] as a father.
1889 W. Pater Appreciations 239 Do you think it could be my duty, as a relative of Mademoiselle de Courteheuse, her spiritual father, as a prelate of the Church, to lend my hands to such disorder?
1908 D. De Leon tr. E. Sue Branding Needle iii. iii. 114 Ah, my father in Christ!
1967 H. Welch Pract. Chinese Buddhism 1900–1950 ii. ix. 247 That monk became his ‘father’.
2010 Gettysburg (Pa.) Times 28 July a7/1 I have had the privilege of walking with a spiritual father since 1998.
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