单词 | cellite |
释义 | Celliten.adj. A member of a Roman Catholic order of hospitallers, now known as Alexians, dedicated to the care of the sick and the mentally infirm. Frequently attributive or as adj. Cf. Alexian n.The Cellites were founded in Flanders in the 14th cent.; they subsequently adopted St Alexius as their patron saint and became known as the Alexian fathers. See also the note in etymology at Lollard n. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > other religions > Servite > [noun] Servitec1540 Cellitec1550 c1550 J. Bale Image Both Churches (new ed.) i. ix. sig. Qv Of these were the Benedictynes, Bernardines,..Cellytes,..wyth innumerable swarmes of them euerye were. 1657 S. Du Verger Hvmble Refl. v. 73 Noe, Madame, there is none among vs so impudently proude, as to sanctifie all our Cellites. 1765 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. I. ii. 744 Soon after the commencement of this [sc. the fourteenth] century, the famous sect of the Cellite brethren and sisters arose at Antwerp. 1792 Encycl. Brit. X. 225/1 The Alexians or Cellites were called Lollards, because they were public singers who made it their business to inter the bodies of those who died of the plague, and a sang a dirge over them. 1833 A. Blair Hist. of Waldenses iv. iv. 449 The name Lollard was likewise applied..to the Cellite Brethren, so named from their cells. 1887 H. C. Lea Hist. Inquisition Middle Ages II. vi. 351 The Cellite associations spread from the Netherlands through the Rhinelands and all over Germany. 1949 Western Folklore 8 89 The Cellite or Alexian brothers cared for the insane in Aachen so effectively that no municipal provision was necessary. 1996 J. A. K. McNamara Sisters in Arms (1998) iii. ix. 257 The Cellite sisters partnered with the Alexian lay brethren and organized plague houses for victims of the Black Death in Belgium. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2008; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.adj.c1550 |
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