单词 | to keep a vigil or vigils |
释义 | > as lemmasto keep (a) vigil or vigils c. In the phrase to keep (a) vigil or vigils. Also transferred. (Cf. 4b.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > (extreme) unction > vigil > keep vigil [verb (intransitive)] watch971 wakec1000 to keep (a) vigil or vigils1555 1555 W. Waterman tr. J. Boemus Fardle of Facions ii. xii. 296 The night afore euery ordenary holidaie or feastefull daie, the whole clergie, and the people, ware bounde to kiepe Vigill in euery churche. 1616 in Publ. Catholic Rec. Soc. (1906) 3 40 They..expose the Blessed Sacrament, institute supplications & keep a vigil throughout the whole night in prayer before the same. 1695 M. Prior Ode to King i At Mary's Tomb, (sad, sacred Place!) The Virtues shall their Vigils keep. 1714 A. Pope Chaucer's Wife of Bath in R. Steele Poet. Misc. 18 Visits to ev'ry Church we daily paid,..The Stations duly, and the Vigils kept. 1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 418 Shrines! where their vigils pale-ey'd virgins keep. 1803 R. Heber Palestine 19 Ye faithful few,..Who round the Saviour's cross your sorrows shed, Not for his sake your tearful vigils keep. 1819 W. Irving Rip Van Winkle in Sketch Bk. i. 90 Hendrick Hudson, the first discoverer of the river and country, kept a kind of vigil there. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 843 St. Charles forbade the keeping of any vigil except that before Christmas. to keep a vigil or vigils b. In the phrase to keep a vigil or vigils. (Cf. 1c.) ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > state of being awake > be or remain awake [verb (intransitive)] > intentionally > specific keep a vigil watch971 to keep a vigil or vigils1694 vigil1898 1694 T. Ken Morning & Evening-Hymn in New-Year's Gift 114 You my blest Guardians, whilst I sleep, Close to my Bed your Vigils keep. 1728 A. Pope Dunciad i. 81 But pensive poets painful vigils keep; Sleepless themselves, to give their readers sleep. a1771 T. Gray Ess. I in W. Mason Mem. Life & Writings (1775) 195 There industry and gain their vigils keep. 1845 H. B. Hirst Coming of Mammoth 98 Lies some quaintly sculptured God, O'er the scene no vigil keeping. 1850 ‘S. Yendys’ Roman i. 2 I steal forth to keep my twilight vigil. 1856 Househ. Words Extra Christmas No., 6 Dec. 21/2 Bid thy Angels..Round my bed their vigil keep. < as lemmas |
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