单词 | candlemas |
释义 | Candlemasn. 1. The feast of the purification of the Virgin Mary (or presentation of Christ in the Temple) celebrated with a great display of candles. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > year > [noun] > specific days of the year Candlemas1014 May Day1267 All Souls' Dayc1300 midsummer evena1400 firstc1400 Beltane1424 midsummer eve1426 quarter day1435 Beltane1456 mid-Sundaya1475 madding-day1568 Lord Mayor's day1591 Barnaby bright1595 Lammas-eve1597 All Saints' Night1607 Handsel Monday1635 distaff's day1648 long Barnabya1657 St. Valentine's eve1671 leet-day1690 All Fools' Day1702 Boxing Day1743 April Fool's Day1748 Royal Oak Day1759 box day1765 Oak-apple Day1802 All Souls' Eve1805 mischief night1830 Shick-shack Day1847 chalk-back day1851 call night1864 Nut-Monday1867 Arbor Day1872 April Fool's1873 Labour Day1884 Martinmas Sunday1885 call day1886 Samhain1888 Juneteenth1890 Mother's Day1890 Father's Day1908 Thinking Day1927 Punkie night1931 Tweede Nuwejaar1947 society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Candlemas > [noun] Candlemas1014 Saint Mary dayc1300 the Purification (of Our Lady, of the Virgin Mary, etc.)1389 chandry1478 1014 Anglo-Saxon Chron. Her on þissum geare Swegen geendode his dagas to candel mæssan iii nonas Febr. c1230 [see Compounds]. c1325 Metr. Hom. 155 The first nam es Candelmesse, The tother Maryes clensing esse, The thred Cristes meting es cald. c1410 N. Love tr. Bonaventura Mirror Life Christ (Gibbs MS.) ix Þis feste of þe puryficacioun þat is cleped candelmasse. 1500 Ortus Vocabulorum in Cath. Angl. 52 The feest of candelmas, or meetynge of candelles. 1590 H. Barrow & J. Greenwood Coll. Sclaunderous Articles F iiij b Your solempne & double feasts of your hollomass, Christmass, Candlemass. 1879 T. F. Simmons Lay Folks Mass Bk. 242 (note) Candles were offered at Candlemas and certain other festivals. 2. The date of this feast, February 2nd. It is one of the quarter-days in Scotland. ΚΠ a1123 Anglo-Saxon Chron. anno 1101 Ðises geares eac se b' Rannulf to þan[m] Candel mæssan ut of þan[m] ture on Lunden nihtes oðbærst. c1175 Ormulum (Burchfield transcript) l. 7706 Tatt daȝȝ mang ennglisshe menn Iss kanndellmesse nemmnedd. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 838 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 327 Fro alhalawghe day To candelmesse. 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies xxiv. 199 Hee holds all Bonds bearing date at Lammasse, Michaelmasse, Candlemasse, or any Masse whatsoever, to be frustrate and of no effect; but by changing masse into tide, they become of full force and vertue. 1817 W. Scott Rob Roy I. vi. 135 I wad say for certain, that I am gaun to quit at Cannlemas. 1876 J. Grant Hist. Burgh Schools Scotl. ii. xiii. 469 The old quarterly terms for paying the school fees were, Lammas, Hallowmas, Candlemas and Beltane. Compounds attributive and in other combinations, as candlemas-day, candlemas-eve, candlemas-even, candlemas-night, candlemas-season, etc., and in Scottish candlemas-ball, candlemas blaze, candlemas crown, candlemas king, candlemas offering (see quots.). ΚΠ c1230 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Corpus Cambr.) (1962) 210 Condelmeasse dei. 1389 in J. T. Smith & L. T. Smith Eng. Gilds (1870) 54 After candilmesse day. a1475 Bk. Curtasye (Sloane 1986) l. 394 in Babees Bk. (2002) i. 311 Bryng in fyre on alhalawgh day, To condulmas euen, I dar welle say. c1525 R. Arnold Chron. (new ed.) sig. Ci Candylmas day next after the kynge and the sayd duke of burgoyn bare theyr candyls. 1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 129 February the 2d. (you may if you please call it Candlemas night) had been time out of minde celebrated at Court with somewhat more then ordinary solemnity. 1843 T. Carlyle Past & Present ii. vii. 101 In that Candlemas season. 1857 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 466 Candlemasday is a holiday at the public offices. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.1014 |
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