单词 | advices and queries |
释义 | > as lemmasAdvices and Queries (b) In the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers): a short homily or piece of advice, concerning either the conduct of Friends as Christians or the running of the Society. Now frequently in Advices and Queries (see query n.2 1b). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > Quaker > [noun] > questions issued for guidance advice1736 1736 Papers rel. to Quakers Tythe Bill 7 An earnest Travail and Concern of Mind..to stand faithful in that our ancient and Christian Testimony against Tythes of all Kinds..according to the several former Advices of this Meeting, particularly that in the Year 1706. 1783 Minutes & Advices Yearly Meeting (Society of Friends) p. iii Minutes and advices..for establishing and conducting the discipline of the church. 1834 Rules of Discipline (Society of Friends) p. xvi It is presumed that this..edition of Rules and Advices for the government of our religious society, will have an extensive circulation amongst its members. 1921 R. M. Jones Late Periods Quakerism I. iv. 132 The Advices, which slowly evolved with the growth of the Society, were in the eighteenth century concerned in large measure with the regulation of the outward manners of living. 1954 H. Loukes Friends face Reality viii. 107 Quakers have performed this process of moral illumination of each other..by a system of ‘Advices and Queries’. 2000 M. B. Weddle Walking in Way of Peace 255 Advices and queries are still regularly introduced in rotation at Quaker meetings. < as lemmas |
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