单词 | chamber-deacon |
释义 | chamber-deaconn. 1. a. In the Middle Ages: a poor scholar or clerk, originally one from Ireland, attending the University of Oxford but living irregularly in private lodgings rather than in any college or hall. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > education > learning > learner > college or university student > [noun] > non-collegiate student chamber-deacon1413 non-collegiate1683 non-coll1879 tosher1889 1413 Rolls of Parl.: Henry V (Electronic ed.) Parl. May 1413 §39. m. 2 Qe toutz Irrois, et clerks Irrois mendivauntes appellez chaumbirdeakyns, soient voidez hors du roialme [1543 Irysh clerkes beggars called chamberdeckins]. 1432 in H. Anstey Munimenta Academica Oxf. (1868) I. 320 Quum pax hujus almæ Universitatis frequenter turbari dignoscitur per diversos qui in forma Scholarium infra Universitatem et præcinctum ejusdem extra aulas ac sine Principalibus in locis diversis latent et expectant, qui nefando nomine Chamberdekenys nuncupantur, et per dies dormiunt ac in noctibus circa tabernas [et] lupinaria spolia homicidiaque vigilant [it is therefore enacted that scholars must reside in a hall, or college]. 1527 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell (new ed.) f. cxviv Yrisshmen and yryssh clerkis beggars callyd chamberdekyns shal be voydyd owt of the realme. 1831 W. Hamilton in Edinb. Rev. June 408 We find..decisive measures taken in Oxford against the Chamberdekyns or scholars haunting the schools, but of no authorized house. 1867 Times 6 June 8/1 Ex-college students remained, called by the name of ‘chamber deacons’. 1938 G. G. Coulton Medieval Panorama xxxi. 400 In the later Middle Ages, the Halls continued to be recognized as the normal academical home of undergraduates. Even then, however, the chamber-deacons were not altogether eliminated, and much of the wilder side of University life was due to these men, living more or less irresponsibly in private lodgings. 1945 T. B. Costain Black Rose 14 If he belonged to the student body, he must be a chamber-deacon; one of the despised clerks who lacked the means to lodge in any of the hospitia. 2000 G. Rosser in D. M. Palliser Cambr. Urban Hist. Brit. I. xv. 361 A deliberate assault on the wayward lives of the ‘chamber deacons’, those scholars who lived in unlicensed lodgings and allegedly spent their days and nights following the injunctions of the Carmina Burana. b. In various other interpretations of the use in Act 1 Henry V c. 8 (see quot. 1413 at sense 1a). historical. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > poverty > mendicancy > [noun] > beggar > other types of beggar overlier1449 roger?1536 jarkman1567 Irish toyle1575 jackman1575 chamber-deacon1607 reacher1607 wallet-bearer1611 pie card1931 1607 J. Cowell Interpreter sig. N1/2 Chamberdekins, are Irish beggers, anno 1. H. 5. cap. 8. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iv. 166 The Commons Petition..that all Irish begging-Priests called Chaumberdakyns should avoid the Realm before Michaelmas next. 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Chamberdekins, properly Chamber-deacons, were certain poor Irish Scholars, clad in poor habit, and living under no Rule, banish'd England in the reign of Hen. V. 1724 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. (ed. 2) Chamberdekins, (i.e. Chamber-Deacons), poor Irish Scholars, who often committed Robberies, &c. and were banished the Kingdom by Henry the V. 1764 R. Burn Hist. Poor Laws iii. 24 By the 1. H. 5. c. 8. All Irish clerks, beggars, called chamberdekens, shall be voided out of the realm. 1907 F. W. Chandler Lit. Roguery I. ii. 49 The fifteenth century saw Irish chamber-deacons, or vagrants, banished by acts of Henry V and Henry VI. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant having care of bedchambers chamber-deaconc1475 chamberlain1587 chamber man1623 bedchamber-man1643 c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 66 Item..that the chambre decons voyde with theyre maistyrs, sauve suche as are assigned here to abyde. c1475 in Coll. Ordinances Royal Househ. (Harl. 642) (1790) 38 Eche of these usshers to have into this court ii honest servaunts..and to leve byhynde them no chaumbre-dekons in courte, but suche as are appoynted by the countyng-house. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1413 |
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