| 单词 | to go to meeting |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto go to meeting b. Christian Church. An assembly of people (esp. Nonconformists) for worship. Also: a Nonconformist congregation; †a Nonconformist place of worship, a chapel or meeting house (obsolete). Sometimes without article, esp. in to go to meeting. Cf. camp-meeting n., protracted meeting n. at protracted adj. Compounds, revival meeting at revival n. 3b; also go-to-meeting adj. and n., and Sunday-go-to-meeting n.During the 17th cent. in Britain, meeting came to be used spec. of gatherings of Nonconformists or Dissenters, and is now used (also in the fuller form meeting for worship) chiefly of assemblies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In North America it is still used more generally of religious services, though this may now be considered somewhat archaic.In the Society of Friends, various regular assemblies for other purposes are indicated by a preceding word, as monthly, preparative, Yearly Meeting, etc.: see the first element. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > congregation > [noun] lathingc897 church folka1200 parishc1300 congregation1526 meeting1593 assemblya1616 society1738 pew1882 society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > chapel > [noun] > nonconformist conventicle?1550 meeting-place1589 meeting1593 meeting house1632 chapel1662 pantile1714 tabernacle1768 gospel-shop?1782 schism-shop1801 bethel1840 schism-house1843 Ebenezer1849 Bethesda1857 Salem1857 praise house1862 1593 Act 35 Eliz. c. 1 To..be present at any unlawful Assemblies, Conventicles, or Meetings, under Colour or Pretence of any Exercise of Religion. 1653 G. Fox Coll. Christian Epist. (1698) 20 Fear not the Powers of Darkness, but keep your Meetings, and meet in that, which keeps you over them. 1677 W. Hubbard Narr. Troubles with Indians New-Eng. ii. 51 September the twenty fourth, being Lords day, as he was going home from the Meeting. 1679 Established Test 23 A..Jesuit takes a Lodging at a Quakers,..goes to the Silent meeting with his Landlord. 1727 Minutes of Yearly Meeting of Soc. Friends 26 Mar. (J. Phillips, 1783) Any person denied by a Monthly Meeting is adjudged as disowned by Friends. 1750 Nova Scotia Archives (1869) 618 A Meeting for Dissenters, a Court House and Prison. 1781 W. Hutton Hist. Birmingham 117 Another was erected in the reign of King William, now denominated The Old Meeting. 1815 W. Field Warwick & Leamington 140 Wesleian Methodist Meeting. This is situated in Gerard Lane, small in extent, and humble in appearance. 1834 Tracts for Times No. 29. 3 There is something so fine in the prayers without book, as they are offered at meeting. 1877 W. W. Fowler Woman on Amer. Frontier ix. 210 The following ‘first day’, which world's people call the Sabbath, meeting was attended at Newton by the whole family. 1928 L. Stockett Baltimore x. 172 During the Revolution a young Friend was read out of Meeting because he looked at the muster. 1941 Amer. Speech 16 23/2 Meetin' ain't over till the benediction's said. 1953 M. Traynor Eng. Dial. Donegal 183 Meeting, the service in a Presbyterian church. 1966 E. H. Jones Margery Fry v. 46 She did not..experience in Meeting or elsewhere that spiritual communion which was supposed to nourish ‘concerns’. 1967 S. Marshall Fenland Chron. ii. v. 206 Occasionally, though, there'd be ‘revivals’ when a preacher from away 'ould come and stop in somebody's house, and have meetings night after night in the chapel. 1993 Ensign Mar. 71/2 Church members skip Sunday meetings to seek recreation..at sports arenas, and at theaters. 1999 Friend 23 July 18/3 Surely Chas Raws cannot be right when he says that over 40 per cent of his Meeting's members have not been at Meeting for worship for at least 10 years! < as lemmas |
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