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单词 Magnificat
释义 Magnificat|mægˈnɪfɪkæt|
[L.; 3rd pers. sing. pres. ind. of magnificāre to magnify.]
1. The hymn of the Virgin Mary in Luke i. 46–55 (in the Vulgate beginning Magnificat anima mea Dominum), used as a canticle at evensong or vespers. Also, a musical setting of this canticle.
c1200Vices & Virtues 55 Ðe hali woordes ðe ic habbe iwriten on magnificat.c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 169 Gret criynge & ioly chauntynge þat..lettiþ men fro þe sentence of holy writt, as Magnyficat, sanctus & agnus dei, þat is so broken bi newe knackynge.14..Stasyons of Jerus. 724 in Horstm. Altengl. Leg. (1881) 365 Sche [Mary] knelyd after onne a stone Magnificat sche made anone.1552Bk. Com. Prayer Even. Pr. (Rubric), After that, Magnificat, in Englishe as foloweth.1597Hooker Eccl. Pol. v. xl. §1 Of reading or singing..Magnificat, Benedictus, and Nunc Dimittis oftener than the rest of the Psalms.1862Longfellow K. Robt. of Sicily 6 Robert of Sicily..at vespers, proudly sat And heard the priests chant the Magnificat.
2. transf. A song of praise; a ‘pæan’.
1614Jackson Creed iii. ix. 179 The lauish Magnificates of present times.1707Hearne Collect. 13 June (O.H.S.) II. 20 His magnificat upon Plato is a disparagement to his Cause.a1711Ken Sion Poet. Wks. 1721 IV. 422 Philothea, Mary-like, in Jesus joy'd And in Magnificats her days employ'd.1896Daily News 23 Apr. 5/4 M. Beurdeley delivered himself of a magnificat in honour of the Orleans and MacMahon families.
3. In various proverbial phrases (translated from Fr.: see Littré and Hatz.-Darm.). to correct Magnificat: a byword for presumptuous fault-finding. to correct Magnificat before one has learnt Te Deum: to attempt that for which one has no qualifications. Magnificat at matins: something out of place.
1533Elyot Knowledge Pref., Accomptyng to be in me no lyttell presumption, that I wylle in notynge other mens vices correct Magnificat.1540Palsgr. tr. Acolastus B iij, Thou Philyp fynde faute (which takest vppon the to correct Magnificat).1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 342 b, Suche..yt will take vpon theim to bee doctours in those thynges in whiche theimselfes haue no skille at all, for whiche wee saie in Englyshe, to correcte Magnificat before he haue learned Te Deum.1588Bp. Andrewes Serm. at Spital (1629) 24 The note is heere all out of place..and so, their note comes in like Magnificat at Matins.1622Mabbe tr. Aleman's Guzman D'Alf. ii. 75 To looke to heare a Magnificat at Mattens, or to seeke after the man in the Moone.1694R. L'Estrange Fables cccxiii. (1714) 329 Where Subjects take upon them to Correct the Magnificat, and to prescribe to their Superiors.
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