单词 | christener |
释义 | christenern. A person who christens or baptizes someone or something; a person who gives a name to someone or something.In quot. OE apparently translating post-classical Latin exorcista in the source (there given as the epithet of St Peter the Exorcist), perhaps with reference to the practice by which members of the clerical order of exorcists routinely performed a minor rite of exorcism on converts and catechumens. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > naming > [noun] > one who or that which gives a name christenerOE impositor1493 denominator1577 imposer1597 name-giver1610 nomenclator1616 namer1627 entitler1653 name-caller1953 the mind > language > naming > [noun] > one who or that which gives a name > one who names a bell christenerOE society > faith > worship > sacrament > baptism > [noun] > person performing christenerOE fulghterOE fulghtnera1200 baptistc1200 baptizer1483 fullower1528 OE Old Eng. Martyrol. (Julius) 2 June (2013) 112 On ðone ilcan dæg bið þara eadigra weora tid Sancte Marcellines þæs mæssepreostes ond Sancte Petres ðæs cristneres [OE Corpus Cambr. 196 crystenan weres]. a1425 Medulla Gram. (Stonyhurst) f. 9 Baptista, a cristenere. 1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pi I meane not hallowers of belles, nor christiners of belles. 1558 Bp. T. Watson Holsome Doctr. Seuen Sacramentes iii. f. xv Let the Christener begynne to cast or poure water vpon the chyldes head. 1751 J. Hill Rev. Wks. Royal Soc. 80 Far from submitting our Name of Bakera to the same Censure, we shall..propose it as a Model to the future Christeners of God's Creatures in this Way. 1835 M. R. Mitford Belford Regis I. 76 He [sc. a curate] came to be considered..the favourite marryer and christener of the town and neighbourhood. 1854 W. M. Thackeray Newcomes I. xi. 119 A pair of boots with iron heels..known by the name of the celebrated Prussian General who came up to help the other christener of boots at Waterloo. 1939 J. Steinbeck Grapes of Wrath x. 138 It was a good respectable thing to have a preacher along... Baby come, an' you got a christener right under the roof. 2009 Sunshine Coast (Queensland) Daily (Nexis) 16 Feb. 20 The christeners of the vessel smashed open a bottle of champagne on the hull of Aquaholic. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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