单词 | advowee |
释义 | advoween. 1. A guardian, protector, or patron of a church or religious house; (Ecclesiastical Law) one holding the right to present a member of the clergy to a particular benefice or living. Cf. advowson n. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > laity > lay functionaries > patron > [noun] advocatea1387 advowee1593 1593 T. Bilson Perpetual Govt. Christes Church xv. 364 Princes being ye first founders of Churches and endowers of bishoprikes haue had, and ought to haue the custodie of the same in the vacancie, and the presentments and collations of those Prelacies, as Lordes and Aduowees of all the landes and possessions that belong either to Cathedrall Churches or Bishops. 1691 Case of Exeter-Coll. 44 The Custody of Voidances, Presentments, Collations, etc. as Lords and Advowees. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Advowees were the Guardians, Protectors, and, as it were, Administrators of the temporal Concerns of the Churches. 1744 J. Lewis Life R. Pecock 252 He gave & granted them as if he were the patron or advowee of them. 1832 E. C. Brown Passion & Reason III. v. 152 The beneficiary deemed it no breach of gratitude toward the advowee, to repose in the friendly breast of his brother, the particulars of the unjustifiable conduct of the peer. 1872 C. Benson tr. W. O. von Horn Rhine 192 Philipp von Bolanden..was advowee..of the Abbey Corneli-Münster. 1933 Times 4 May 11/3 A prominent Nationalist lord of the manor and advowee ordered the removal from the church tower on May Day of the Nazi flag. 1986 Eng. Hist. Rev. 101 567 The authority of the king as ‘advowee paramount’, the patron of his Church, was reinforced in a number of ways. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > safety > protection or defence > care, protection, or charge > [noun] > one who looks after > protector or patron > divinity, angel, or saint avowe1297 angel1340 avowrya1387 patrona1387 avourec1450 familiar angelc1450 advocator1483 vower1488 tutelar1603 titular1621 guardian angela1631 tutelary1652 guardian1667 patron saint1703 warden-angel1845 advowee1863 1863 C. T. Brooks tr. J. P. F. Richter Titan I. i. 24 Mr. Architect, you laugh, but you know altogether too little of what these painted heavenly advowees [Ger. Schirmvögte] hourly undertake in behalf of the German circles. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1593 |
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