| 单词 | the repose of the virgin mary |
| 释义 | > as lemmasthe Repose of the Virgin Mary (also Virgin, Virgin Mother, etc.) b. Christian Church. the Repose of the Virgin Mary (also Virgin, Virgin Mother, etc.): (a) the death of the Virgin Mary; cf. dormition n.; (b) = assumption n. 1b; (also) the feast in the Orthodox Church held annually on 15 August. [Compare ancient Greek κοίμησις lying down to sleep, sleep of death, in Byzantine Greek also Dormition of the Virgin Mary (in e.g. κοίμησις τῆς θεομητρικῆς , κοίμησις τῆς θεοτόκου Dormition of the Mother of God; compare Theotokos n.), Russian Uspenie Bogorodicy Dormition of the Mother of God.] ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > [noun] > of saint the repose of the Virgin1737 1737 tr. C. de Bruyn Trav. into Muscovy I. i. 16/1 Oespinge Bogeroedisza, or the church of the repose of the Virgin Mary [Fr. l'église du repos de la vierge Marie]. 1757 A. Butler Lives Saints III. 497 This solemnity, in ancient martyrologies, is promiscuously called the Assumption, passage, or Repose of the Virgin Mary. 1869 H. F. Tozer Res. Highlands of Turkey I. 59 The festival of the Repose of the Virgin. 1894 R. L. Bensly Four Gospels in Syriac Introd. p. xvi The MS. of the Syriac Gospels was now apparently exhausted, and the scribe continued with leaves from the volume of Syriac Apocrypha (Acts of Thomas and Repose of the Virgin). 1974 R. T. Teske Votive Offerings Greek-Philadelphians (1980) 309 She went finally to pay her veneration to the icon of the repose of the Virgin Mother. 2008 N. Dershowitz & E. M. Reingold Calendrical Calculations (ed. 3) 71 Orthodox periods of fasting include the Fast of the Repose of the Virgin Mary (August 1-14) and the 40-day Christmas Fast. < as lemmas |
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