单词 | christening book |
释义 | christening bookn.ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > service book (general) > [noun] > for baptism christening book1429 1429 in Trans. Hist. Soc. Lancs. & Cheshire (1944) 95 126 Unus liber vocatur krystnyng book, alter liber vocatur burying book. ?a1500 Nominale (Yale Beinecke 594) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 755/15 Hoc manuale, a crystynningboke. 2. A register or record of christenings, esp. in a parish church. ΘΚΠ society > communication > record > written record > register or record book > [noun] > other types of registers Domesday Book1178 register1426 white bookc1432 town booka1547 christening book1558 muster1565 minute-book1566 Domes-booke1610 Newgate Calendar1686 time book1786 press book1808 provision book1840 visitors' book1846 guestbook1849 poison book1870 poison register1894 war diary1917 sign-in1966 1558 Churchwardens' Accts. Minchinhampton in Archaeologia (1853) 35 424 To Edmund Spenner, for keppyng the cristnyng boke, xvj d. 1680 R. L'Estrange Citt & Bumpkin 3 I fill'd up all those spaces with Names, that I either Remember'd or Invented my self, or could get out of two or three Christning-books. 1794 Oracle & Public Advertiser 29 Aug. The Fleet marriage, burial and christening books. 1901 Junior Munsey Apr. 113/1 Members of a royal family often affect long names of a dozen or more parts; but these are mainly kept for the christening book, and the one or two principal ones are all that are employed or remembered. 2006 N.Z. Herald (Nexis) 6 Oct. Holy Trinity Church has the christening book recording the baptism. 3. A book containing photographs, etc., kept as a souvenir or memento of a child's christening. ΚΠ 1915 L. Fox Carnation Petals 26 The little christening book, including photographs and signatures of his family. 1946 Moline (Illinois) Daily Disp. 30 May 2/6 (advt.) Christening Books. Lovely white leather books to hold baby's christening record. 1987 M. Green Squanicook Eclogues iii. 48 A velvet christening book... The flyleaf is inscribed in faded black, For my darling daughter, Eleanor. 2008 Canberra Times (Nexis) 23 Aug. a15 There are not only many letters and diaries, but also..wedding books, christening books, menus, layers of diligently annotated photograph albums. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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