单词 | st michael |
释义 | St Michaeln. 1. Christian Church. More fully the feast of St Michael, St Michael's day. = Michaelmas n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Michaelmas (29 September) > [noun] St Michael?c1225 Michaelmasc1300 Michaelmas dayc1325 Michael day1426 Michael1557 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 301 Seinte Michales dei. c1325 R. Gloucester's Chron. (Rolls) 11034 A sein Misseles [v.r. myhelles] dai. a1500 Surtees Misc. 59 Eftyr ye fest of Sayntt Myghell. 1577 R. Stanyhurst Treat. Descr. Irelande vi. f. 22/2, in R. Holinshed Chron. I Hee dubd on Saint Michael the Archangels day: 30. knights. 1595 Deposition in Shropshire Archaeol. Soc. (1880) 16 The said defendant..shall..pay..the sum of 26s and 8d..at or upon the feast of Saint Michael Archangell. 1805 W. Cruise Digest Laws Eng. Real Prop. V. 353 The writ of entry was returnable on the octave of St. Michael,..which was the said 9th day of October. 1829 R. V. Barnewall & C. Cresswell Rep. Cases King's Bench 8 745 One messuage..to hold in conventionary from the feast of St. Michael in the 7 Ed. I., to the end of 7 years next following not completed. 1899 R. R. Sharpe Cal. Let.-bks. London A. 16 £12 10s. for wine; to be paid in the quinzaine of St. Michael [sc. in 1277]. 2. Order of St Michael: a French military order instituted by Louis XI in 1469 (now historical). Order of St Michael and St George: an English civil order of knighthood instituted in 1818, shortly after the acquisition by Great Britain of Malta and the Ionian Islands, originally introduced as a special decoration for the native people of those islands, later extended to those serving in all British colonies and now as a reward for distinguished diplomatic service, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > decorations or orders Order of St Michael1530 Legion of Honour1802 clasp1813 Iron Cross1813 medal1813 star1844 Victoria Cross1856 V.C.1859 Medal of Honour1861 bar1864 yellow jacket1864 V.D.1901 Croix de Guerre1915 Military Cross1915 C.G.M.1916 Military Medal1916 pip1917 M.M.1918 purple heart1918 Maconochie Cross1919 Maconochie Medal1919 wound-stripe1919 T.D.1924 rooty gong1925 Silver Star1932 Ritterkreuz1940 Africa Star1943 ruptured duck1945 Spam medal1945 screaming eagle1946 society > society and the community > social class > symbol of rank > [noun] > insignia of order > specific insignia of knightly order > awarded for service abroad Order of St Michael and St George1530 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 236/2 Knight of the order of saynt Michaell. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 1 (1623) iv. vii. 69 Knight of the Noble Order of S. George, Worthy S. Michael, and the Golden Fleece. 1839 Penny Cycl. XIII. 246/2 There are also..knights of the Ionian order of Saint Michael and Saint George. 1896 London Gaz. 21 Apr. 2388/1 The list of appointments to be Ordinary Members of the Third Class, or Companions of the Most Distinguished Order of Saint Michael and Saint George. 1897 Dict. National Biogr. at Sinclair, Sir William The earl was gloriously apparelled and magnificently attended, and received the order of St. Michael from the French king. 1959 Chambers's Encycl. III. 513 The Most Distinguished Order of St Michael and St George was founded 27 Apr. 1818 by the prince regent... In 1864 the order was extended so as to apply to service in all British colonies. 2001 Navy News Sept. 38/3 Newly appointed a Companion of the Most Noble Order of St Michael and St George, the Colonel was greeted by a guard of honour. 3. St Michael's pear n. (also St Michael pear) [= French poire de St.-Michel, German Michaelisbirne] a variety of pear, the white Doyenné, which is ripe at Michaelmas. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular types of fruit > [noun] > pear > other types of calewey1377 honey peara1400 pome-pear1440 pome-wardena1513 choke-pear1530 muscadel1555 worry pear1562 lording1573 bon-chrétienc1575 Burgundian pear1578 king pear1585 pound pear1585 poppering1597 wood of Jerusalem1597 muscadine1598 amiot1600 bergamot1600 butter pear1600 dew-pear1600 greening1600 mollart1600 roset1600 wax pear1600 bottle pear1601 gourd-pear1601 Venerian pear1601 musk pear1611 rose pear1611 pusill1615 Christian1629 nutmeg1629 rolling pear1629 surreine1629 sweater1629 amber pear1638 Venus-pear1648 horse-pear1657 Martin1658 russet1658 rousselet1660 diego1664 frith-pear1664 maudlin1664 Messire Jean1664 primate1664 sovereign1664 spindle-pear1664 stopple-pear1664 sugar-pear1664 virgin1664 Windsor pear1664 violet-pear1666 nonsuch1674 muscat1675 burnt-cat1676 squash pear1676 rose1678 Longueville1681 maiden-heart1685 ambrette1686 vermilion1691 admiral1693 sanguinole1693 satin1693 St. Germain pear1693 pounder pear1697 vine-pear1704 amadot1706 marchioness1706 marquise1706 Margaret1707 short-neck1707 musk1708 burree1719 marquis1728 union pear1728 Doyenne pear1731 Magdalene1731 beurré1736 colmar1736 Monsieur Jean1736 muscadella1736 swan's egg1736 chaumontel1755 St Michael's pear1796 Williams1807 Marie Louise1817 seckel1817 Bartlett1828 vergaloo1828 Passe Colmar1837 glou-morceau1859 London sugar1860 snow-pear1860 Comice1866 Kieffer pear1880 sand pear1880 sandy pear1884 snowy pear1884 1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Pyrus Le Doyenné, i.e. The Dean's Pear. It is also call'd by the following names; Saint Michel, i.e. Saint Michael; Beurre blanc de Automne [etc.].] 1796 C. Marshall Introd. Knowl. & Pract. Gardening xvii. 349 The summer sorts [sc. of pear] may be the green chissel,..Jargonelle, and surviver Bonchretian. The autumn, brown beurrè..and dean pear, or St. Michael. 1837 N. Hawthorne Twice-told Tales viii They strung him up to the branch of a St. Michael's pear-tree. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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