单词 | camp-meeting |
释义 | camp-meetingn. A religious meeting held in the open air or in a tent (chiefly among Methodists in America), and usually lasting for some days, during which those who attend encamp on the spot. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > meeting for observance > [noun] > in open air field meetinga1657 field conventicle1670 camp-meeting1803 1803 L. Dow Trav. in Wks. (1806) I. 220 A camp meeting, the first I ever attended, was held on Shoulder-bone-creek. 1804 Philadelphia Gaz. 28 Sept. 3/2 38 carts were counted on the camp-meeting ground on Sunday last. 1809 Q. Rev. 2 336 Our fanatics..have not yet ventured to hold camp-meetings. 1842 C. Dickens Amer. Notes II. x. 300 Religious scenes..which can hardly be surpassed by an American camp-meeting. 1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 108 His voice was..modulated according to the camp-meeting standard of elocution. 1872 E. Eggleston End of World xliii. 270 They had passed to an excited shouting of the old camp-meeting ditty. 1878 B. F. Taylor Between Gates 281 In no state in the union is a camp-meeting more exempt from interference than in California. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online June 2019). < n.1803 |
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