| 释义 |
‖ destour, dastur|dəˈstʊə(r)|
Also 7 distore(e, distoore, destoor, dustoor.
[Pers. dastūr, prime minister, vizier:—Pahlavi dastōbār, prime minister, councillor of state, high priest of the Parsees.]
A chief priest of the Parsees.
1630Lord Banians & Persees viii. (Yule), Their Distoree or high priest. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 55 The Distoore or Pope..has thirteen [precepts]. 1696J. Ovington Voy. Surat 376 (Yule) The highest Priest of the Persies is called Destoor, their ordinary Priests Daroos or Hurboods. 1776Gibbon Decl. & F. (1836) VIII. 81 If the destour be satisfied, your soul will escape hell. 1777J. Richardson Dissert. East. Nations 10 The wretched rhymes of a modern Parsi Destour. 1809M. Graham Jrnl. (1812) (Yule), The Dustoor is the chief priest of his sect in Bombay. 1862M. Haug Ess. Sacr. Lang. Parsees 52 The Dustoors, as the spiritual guides of the Parsee community, should take a chief part in it. 1878― Relig. of Parsees (ed. 2) 17 He bribed one of the most learned Dasturs, Dastur Dârâb, at Surat to procure him manuscripts and to instruct him in the Avesta and Pahlavi languages. |