单词 | common person |
释义 | > as lemmascommon person common person n. historical and rare in later use a person who represents or acts on behalf of another person or a group of people; spec. Jesus Christ, regarded as the representative of humankind. ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > [noun] > one who or that which common person1535 figurer1548 representor1553 representera1586 representator1603 representative1638 embodier1654 butt-cut1830 thinger1883 1535 S. Matthew Serm. XXVII. June sig. C.iv Maister Recorder is not nowe a priuate person, but a common persone: and what so euer he speaketh, durynge his commission, the holle citie speaketh it. ?1580 R. Hoper Instr. Christian Man 130 For a Magistrate or an Officer, doth execute the Office of a publike or common person. 1642 T. Goodwin Christ set Forth iii. iv. 61 When Christ dyed, he dyed as a Common person, and God reckoneth that we dyed also. When Christ arose, he rose as our Head, and as a Common person, and so then God accounts that we rose also with him. 1979 C. Hill in A. Kontos Powers, Possessions & Freedom (e-book ed.) My subject is the theological conception which we encounter in England during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, of the representative person, or public person, or common person. < as lemmas |
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