单词 | all souls' mass |
释义 | > as lemmasAll Souls' mass With the first element in the genitive plural form, as All Souls' Night, All Souls' mass, etc. See also All Souls' Day n., All Souls' Eve n. ΚΠ 1581 G. North tr. H. Estienne Stage Popish Toyes 60 Erasmus reciteth howe a Priest on All Soules night fastened to the bodies of sundrie small Creuices certaine waxe lightes, scattering them among the graues in the Church yarde. 1616 T. Beard Retractiue from Romish Relig. xii. 438 The Carpenters and Masons comming the next day after all Soules night to worke, found..some of the Crabs, with their candles on their backs extinguished. 1830 A. Ganilh Odes & Fugitive Poetry 17 'Tis all souls' night when the dead rise! 1892 S. Baring-Gould Strange Survivals 272 The simnel or soul-mass cakes of Lancashire, the gauffres baked at All Souls-tide in Belgium, are all reminiscences of the food prepared and offered to the dead at All Souls. 1903 Galveston (Texas) Daily News 1 Nov. 16/1 This afternoon at the conclusion of the All Souls' service it [sc. a monument] will be solemnly dedicated. 1983 Economist 12 Nov. 46/1 For the first time in its history the church refused to celebrate All Souls' mass on November 2nd. 2008 K. K. Birth Bacchanalian Sentiments v. 208 Divali, All Saints' Night, and All Souls' Night occurred before the elections [in Trinidad]. < as lemmas |
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