单词 | holy day of obligation |
释义 | holy day of obligation in British Englishnoun a major feastday of the Roman Catholic Church on which Catholics are bound to attend Mass and refrain from servile work holy day of obligation in American Englishnoun 1. a day on which Roman Catholics are duty-bound to attend Mass and abstain from certain kinds of work 2. a day on which Episcopalians are expected to take communion Word origin [1930–35]This word is first recorded in the period 1930–35. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: acoustic phonetics, hypercorrection, preset, saddle stitch, technical foul |
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