| 单词 | to make religion to |
| 释义 | > as lemmasto make (it) (a) religion to Phrases P1. man (woman, etc.) of religion: a person bound by religious vows, as a monk or nun; a member of the clergy. Now historical. [Probably after Anglo-Norman home de religiun, Anglo-Norman and Old French home de religion (c1227; Middle French, French homme de religion), and Anglo-Norman gent de religiun, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French gent de religion (1275 or earlier in Anglo-Norman; French gent de religion), although attested slightly earlier. With woman of religion compare Middle French dame de religion nun (1364 or earlier), and also Anglo-Norman dame de religiun abbess, prioress (1328 or earlier).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monk > [noun] monkeOE brotherOE claustermanc1175 man (woman, etc.) of religiona1200 cloister-monkc1325 friarc1330 son1416 religion manc1475 pater1481 abbey man1483 scapularc1540 monach?c1550 cloister-man1581 monastic1632 cowlist1637 religieux?a1649 religioso1708 saint1888 a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 49 (MED) Ac þis loc [sc. of perfection] ne haueð non to offren bute þese lif holie men of religiun. c1325 (c1300) Chron. Robert of Gloucester (Calig.) 5735 (MED) King edgar & seint aþelwold..An oþer hous..hii rerde of seinte marie, Of womman of religyon & made a nonnerye. c1350 Apocalypse St. John: A Version (Harl. 874) (1961) 8 (MED) By his heued ben bitokned gode prelates of holy chirche. By þe heer þe Men of Religioun [Fr. la gent de religiun] þat shullen ben white þorouȝ holynesse. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) 7 (MED) Renkez of relygioun þat reden and syngen And aprochen to hys presens and prestez arn called..Þay hondel þer [sc. at the altar] his aune body and usen hit boþe. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 360 Nune, womann of relygione, monialis, monacha. a1475 (?a1430) J. Lydgate tr. G. Deguileville Pilgrimage Life Man (Vitell.) 3192 (MED) The cheff vyker..Haue set..Somme folkys of relygyon Hys offys to excersyce. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 310 This bischope and the lordis of reliegieoun..gaif sentance against this innocent man. 1670 J. Evelyn tr. Moral Pract. Jesuites 296 The Iesuites..might practise on him the Doctrine of their Father Amy, who allows a man of Religion to kill him who publishes things scandalous of his Order. a1707 W. Petyt Jus Parliamentarium (1739) i. 57 Others which had Offices perpetual, should be as perpetual as People of Religion. 1809 Amer. Law Jrnl. Jan. 57 The whole of this statute is in force, except those parts which relate to Prelates, men of Religion, and writs of attaint. 1878 ‘Ouida’ Friendship III. xxxi. 46 As women of religion, with the red cross on their breasts, bend over the wide war-wounds of naked men, so she beheld corruption. 1911 G. Hodges Saints & Heroes 239 The principal business of a man of religion,—a priest, a monk, or a friar,—was to say prayers. 1996 L. M. Bitel Land of Women viii. 168 Their stories of lustfully wayward women of religion. P2. house (also †abbey) of religion: a religious house, esp. a monastery or nunnery; (in later use also) a place of worship, as a church, mosque, or synagogue. [After Anglo-Norman maisun de religiun, Old French, Middle French maison de religion (1265).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] minstereOE monklifeeOE clausterc1000 abbotricOE house?a1160 anchor-house?c1225 religion?c1225 abbeyc1300 nunneryc1300 house (also abbey) of religiona1325 nunryc1325 closterc1330 cloister1340 monasterya1425 monk-house?c1475 friars1479 convent1528 guild1546 prioressy1575 abbey-stead1620 minchery1710 reclusory1821 akhara1838 house of piety1838 kloster1844 a1325 St. Thomas Becket (Corpus Cambr.) l. 561 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 628 (MED) He grantede ek þat a churche of þe kynges fe..ne ssolde iȝiue be As to hous of religion wiþoute þe kynges leue. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 41 (MED) Sacrilege is..huanne me bernþ oþer brekþ cherches..oþer hous of relygioun. c1425 (?a1400) Arthur (Longleat 55) 488 (MED) He buryed Bedewere Hys frend..And so he dude other Echon In Abbeys of Relygyon. ?1449 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 157/2 Temporaltees of Bisshuprichez, Abbathiez, Prioriez, and of all othir Housez of Religion. c1536 in J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (1611) ix. xxi. 773/1 Spoiled in like maner..as the housys of Religion hath bene. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 144 Many houses of relygion within the Citie..were searched for goodes of aliauntes. 1603 G. Downame Treat. conc. Antichrist ii. 27 Vpon them there doe yet remaine, besides some of the Popes palaces and courts, diuers churches and houses of religion and other buildings of note. 1679 Bp. J. Gordon Reformed Bishop ii. 27 Monasteries..might have been still Houses of Religion, without having any dependance upon Rome. 1733 Capt. Downes All Vows Kept iii. ii. 33 I am retir'd into a House of Religion; not vowed, but for Probation. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe (1820) III. vi. 139 Albert had received within a house of religion the Jewish captive, and..the paramour of a brother of the Order. 1861 R. C. Jenkins Last Crusader vii. 373 He dismissed accordingly all the brothers that were there,..and formed the house anew into a house of religion. 1910 Eng. Hist. Rev. 25 607 The committee..expects important results from the excavation of early monastic localities... The sites of these ancient houses of religion should be carefully examined. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 31 Dec. a16 Our governments, schools, hospitals and houses of religion are virtually bankrupt. 2008 D. Wilson Out of Storm i. ii. 37 To the nineteen houses of religion already in existence was added the Convent of St Mary Magdalene. P3. to make (a) religion of, to make (it) (a) religion to. a. To make a point of; to be scrupulously careful to.In later use with indefinite article in forms to make a religion of and to make it a religion to. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > manner of action > care, carefulness, or attention > take care about [verb (transitive)] > be scrupulously careful about to stand upon ——1549 to make (a) religion of1561 to stand on ——a1593 1561 Bible (Geneva) Gen. xxxix. 4 (note) Because God prospered him: and so he made religion to serue his profite. a1616 W. Shakespeare Antony & Cleopatra (1623) v. ii. 195 By your command (Which my loue makes Religion to obey) I tell you this. View more context for this quotation 1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 167 The factious Party made it Religion to propagate the Faith of the Plot..as far as they could carry it by their Correspondences. 1869 W. M. Baker New Timothy 199 Its acidity sharpens Mr. Wall's teeth.., yet, under the circumstances, he makes a religion of eating it. 1916 ‘W. D. Bank’ Average Woman xiv. 177 He had resumed his visits to the club, but did not make it a religion to go there every night. 1980 S. Fish Is there Text in this Class? ix. 219 Had he not made a religion of keeping to his word, then his breaking of it could not have been cited by Aufidius as a capital crime. ΚΠ 1601 B. Jonson Fountaine of Selfe-love v. v. sig. L3v Let Mortalls learne To make Religion of offending Heauen. View more context for this quotation 1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 29 The ancients seeme to haue made a religion to meddle with it [sc. the book of Revelation], and thought it much better to admire it with silence, then to adventure to expound it. 1622 H. Peacham Compl. Gentleman vi. 44 Nor bee so foolish precise as a number are, who make it Religion to speake otherwise then this or that Author. P4. Originally U.S. to get religion: to be converted; (in extended use) to take matters seriously, to give proper attention to an issue. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > conversion > convert [verb (intransitive)] turnc1225 converta1400 to come through1708 to get religion1772 to see the light1812 to experience religion1837 vert1888 to find religion (also Christ, God, Jesus, etc.)1957 1772 A. Hunter Let. 18 Mar. in P. V. Fithian Jrnl. & Lett. (1900) 22 We have had a considerable stir of religion in college since you went away, Lewis Willson is thought to have got religion. 1802 Methodist New Connexion Mag. Nov. 432 A number, too, are wrought upon in the usual way, and hopefully get religion without any of these extraordinary appearances. 1857 C. W. Elliott New Eng. Hist. I. 460 Capt. Underhill killed his neighbor's wife, and ‘got his religion on a pipe of tobacco’. 1908 ‘E. C. Hall’ Aunt Jane of Kentucky (1909) i. 24 We went home feelin' like we'd been through a big protracted meetin' and got religion over again. 1952 Manch. Guardian Weekly 9 Oct. 7 It is sad news for his publishers that he has got religion. 1993 N.Y. Times 26 Mar. a 28/1 The White House spokesman said the formal plan may not be ready for another few weeks, so it's still possible his boss may get religion. 2001 Time 22 Oct. 73/1 The Bush Administration..has suddenly got religion about tracking down terrorists' assets..and an array of other tools on law enforcement's wish list. P5. religion of nature n. (a) = natural religion n.; (b) a religion involving the worship of natural objects and phenomena in place of a more formal system of religious belief. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > kinds of religions > [noun] > natural natural religion1622 religion of nature1622 naturalisma1641 neologism1827 nature-religion1853 pre-animism1910 society > faith > sect > non-Christian religions > other non-Christian sects > nature > [noun] natural religion1622 religion of nature1622 1622 G. Goodman Creatures praysing God 32 If you consider the Creatures, betweene God and God, in stead of a naturall discourse, here you haue a religion of nature. 1730 M. Tindal (title) Christianity as old as Creation, a republication of the Religion of Nature. 1827 F. A. Walter tr. B. G. Niebuhr Rom. Hist. I. xxii. 265 The early religion of the Latins was a religion of nature [Ger. Naturdienst]. 1895 J. Kidd Morality & Relig. v. 191 Vedism..was a religion of nature. The objects of its worship..were the powers of nature. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience iv. 91 In that ‘theory of evolution’ which..has within the past twenty-five years swept so rapidly over Europe and America, we see the ground laid for a new sort of religion of Nature, which has entirely displaced Christianity from the thought of a large part of our generation. 1954 R. N. Stromberg Relig. Liberalism 18th-Cent. Eng. iii. 31 Committed to a religion of nature, they [sc. deists] suspected that the whole Christian revelation was no more than a tissue of lies and fables. 1961 D. G. James Matthew Arnold i. 22 The essay itself is given up chiefly to a warm exposition of her religion of nature. 1997 N. Walter Humanism 49 Ernst Haeckel, the German advocate of Darwinism (and inventor of Ecology in 1866), advocated a religion of nature called Monism. P6. religion of the book: a religion entailing adherence to a book of divine revelation; spec. Judaism, Christianity, or Islam. Cf. People of the Book n. at people n. Phrases 1b. ΚΠ 1830 Q. Rev. Oct. 560 Mahommedanism has been received by negro nations with more confidence, because it is the religion of the Book,—a written, and, as they believe, an attested religion, of the truth of which the koran is the record and the proof. 1888 B. Manly Bible Doctr. of Inspiration, explained & Vindicated i. i. 13 Christianity is the Religion of the Book. 1941 Amer. Jrnl. Semitic Lang. & Lit. 58 23 Mohammed considers himself not the founder of a new religion but rather a protagonist of the age-old religion of the Book. 1991 R. Oliver Afr. Experience (1993) vii. 85 When Islam eventually became a religion of the book, other ‘people of the book’, Christians and Jews, were specifically excluded from the operations of the holy war. 1992 M. E. Marty & R. S. Appleby Glory & Power i. 21 It is relatively easy to locate the fundamentalist groundings in the three faiths called the Religions of the Book. P7. religion of humanity: the humanistic religion founded by Auguste Comte; see positivism n. 2. [After French réligion de l'Humanité (1844 or earlier in Comte).] ΚΠ 1852 Westm. Rev. New Ser. 1 347 Comte presents himself as the founder of the religion of humanity, as the systematic upholder of the supremacy of moral life. 1925 G. K. Chesterton Everlasting Man i. iv. 89 The Religion of Humanity was a term commonly applied to Comtism, the theory of certain rationalists who worshipped corporate mankind as a Supreme Being. 2000 P. A. Mellor in A. Hastings et al. Oxf. Compan. Christian Thought 678/2 Comte..sought to develop his own ‘religion of humanity’ complete with sociologist-priests, altars, a calendar of feast days, and modes of worship. P8. religion is the opium of the people and variants: see opium n. 2b. < as lemmas |
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