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cenacle|ˈsɛnək(ə)l|
[a. F. cénacle, ad. L. cēnāculum dining-room, f. cēna the mid-day or afternoon meal, ‘dinner’, ‘supper’; in the Vulgate used of the ‘upper room’ in which the Last Supper was eaten, whence its chief use in the modern langs. Also used in Latin form.]
a. A supping room; an upper chamber; esp. the upper room in which the Last Supper was held, and in which the apostles met after the Ascension.
a1400Cov. Myst. (1841) 17 In Hierusalem were gaderyd xij opynly To the Cenacle. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 328/3 A fayr Cenacle honestly arayed with al maner of deyntes. 1491― Vitas Patr. (W. de W.) iii. xix. (1495) 322 b/2 Danyell the prophete..was thre tymes in the cenacle and prayed god deuoutly. 1858Faber Xavier 220 A new tongue..added to the many ancient ones which..had first found expression in the Cenacle of Judea.
b. A place in which a group of people meet for the discussion of common interests; also, the group of people so meeting, spec. a literary clique. Also in Fr. form cénacle (senakl).
[1879Encycl. Brit. IX. 676/1 The famous cénacle or clique in which Hugo was chief poet, Sainte-Beuve chief critic.] 1889H. F. Wood Englishman Rue Caïn xiii, The pundit of some cenacle in Garrick Street. 1899A. C. Lyall Asiatic Studies 2nd Ser. 61 Within the philosophic cenacle I should entirely concur. 1926Contemp. Rev. Jan. 85 In England and France schools and ‘cénacles’ of literature sprang up round the great writer of the moment. |