| 单词 | suffrage of prayer |
| 释义 | > as lemmassuffrage(s) of prayer(s) a. As a mass noun or in plural. Spiritual help, benefit, or favour, esp. that offered as or granted in response to intercessory prayers, typically for the souls of the dead. In early use often in suffrage(s) of prayer(s). Cf. sense 2b. Now chiefly historical. [Compare post-classical Latin orationis suffragium (11th cent.), Old French suffrages d'oroisons, Middle French suffrage d'oraison (late 13th cent.).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > parts of service > collect > [noun] precesOE bidding prayerc1175 collect?c1225 suffrage(s) of prayer(s)?a1425 suffragec1450 intercession?a1513 suffrages1532 church collect1624 interparling1647 bid-prayer1691 ?a1425 (a1415) Lanterne of Liȝt (Harl.) (1917) 61 Summe seyn, ‘haue here þis money & good sire preie for me’; Summe maken lettris..to selle alle her suffragis. 1447 in H. Anstey Epistolae Academicae Oxon. (1898) I. 261 We commend us unto ȝowr goode lordschipe wt the gostly suffrages of oure prayers. ?1531 R. Whitford Notable Lesson (new ed.) sig. B Pray for all them that haue greatest paynes in purgatory, and leste helpe here by ye suffrage of prayers. 1613 in Miscellanea (Catholic Rec. Soc.) (1914) 9 34 We humbly request the Suffrages of your Devout Prayers of Charity. 1700 W. Seton Interest Scotl. 84 Purgatory was invented to make separat Souls a Merchandable Commoditie, and the Invocation of Saints, to increase the Authority of the Clergy, who, by their Suffrage, could advance any Body they pleased, to the Court of Heaven. 1855 J. Wyse Man. Confraternity La Salette 70 The Church on earth..offers up these merits [of Christ and His saints] to God as her ‘suffrage’, if He would please to accept it, for the souls in purgatory. 1911 Catholic Encycl. XII. 590/2 [Abuses following from errors include] denying the Viaticum to dying children.., thereby depriving them of the suffrages of the Church, to which they were entitled. 2016 P. C. Almond Afterlife (e-book ed.) iv The indulgence sellers did not hesitate in suggesting that the older modes of suffrage were now redundant. < as lemmas |
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