释义 |
indulge /in-duljˈ/ transitive verb- To yield to the wishes of
- To favour or gratify
- To treat with favour or undue favour
- Not to restrain
- To grant an indulgence to or on
- To grant some measure of religious liberty to (historical)
intransitive verb- To gratify one's appetites freely, or permit oneself any action or expression (with in)
- To partake, esp of alcohol (informal)
ORIGIN: L indulgēre to be kind to, indulge, from in in, and prob dulcis sweet indulgˈence, also indulgˈency noun - Gratification
- Excessive gratification
- Favourable or unduly favourable treatment
- A pleasure indulged
- A grant of religious liberty
- Forbearance of present payment
- (in the Roman Catholic Church) a remission, to a repentant sinner, of the temporal punishment which remains due after the sin and its eternal punishment have been remitted (plenary indulgences, which remit all, partial, which remit a portion of the temporal punishment due, temporal, those granted only for a time, perpetual or indefinite, those which last until revoked, personal, those granted to a particular person or confraternity, local, those gained only in a particular place)
- Exemption of an individual from an ecclesiastical law
indulgˈent adjective - Ready to gratify the wishes of others
- Compliant
- Not severe
indulgˈently adverb indulgˈer noun Declaration of Indulgence A name given to proclamations of Charles II and esp James II declaring laws restraining religious liberty suspended by the king's will |