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单词 church-tympanite
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Church-Tympaniten.

Origin: Apparently formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: church n.1, an element of uncertain origin.
Etymology: < church n.1 + a second element of uncertain origin, probably a back-formation < tympanites n.Compare: 1682 R. Baxter True Hist. Councils Defended ii. 21 I thought it strange if either Papacy, or that Tympanite of the Clergy which tended to it, were of God, that the Persons should be ordinarily so bad, and it should..bring the Church into such a divided and polluted state, and that as the Clergy swelled the Body should pine away.
derogatory. Obsolete. rare.
Perhaps: a member of the Roman Catholic Church.Baxter elsewhere refers to the Roman Catholic Church and its clergy as a tympanite (see for example quot. 1682 at the etymology and cf. tympanites n.).
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1684 R. Baxter Catholick Communion To Rdr. sig. A2 Even before the Church-Tympanites, many score several Sects rose up.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2011; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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