单词 | altar adorer |
释义 | > as lemmasaltar adorer b. Objective with agent and verbal nouns, as altar adorer, altar builder, altar building, altar burning, altar maker, altar smasher, etc.From the Reformation to the 19th cent. often denoting persons or practices regarded as tending towards Roman Catholicism, or actions intended to counter or eradicate these. ΚΠ ?a1325 ( in H. T. Riley Munimenta Gildhallæ Londoniensis (1860) II. 107 (MED) Thomam Torgot, autermakere. 1629 W. Prynne Church of Englands Old Antithesis Ep. Ded. sig. ¶4v Altar-adorations, (complained of not long since in Parliament). 1637 W. Prynne Quench-coale ii. 274 If our Altar-worshippers will presse or imitate his example, then they must bow and worship towards our Churches-steeples. 1641 in J. Rushworth Hist. Coll.: Third Pt. (1692) I. 553 A notable Arminian and an Altar-adorer. ?1705 E. Hickeringill Vindic. Char. Priest-craft 22 Cold Formality, and Altar-Worship. 1728 W. Asplin Alkibla 17 That general Rule for Altar-Building..a Necessity for placing all the Altars of the Gods towards the East. 1834 T. Carlyle Sartor Resartus iii. iii. 78/2 Were this an altar-building time. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. III. v. vii. 337 Gun-boring, Altar-burning, Saltpetre-digging, and miraculous improvements in Tannery. 1869 J. B. Rose Two Hist. Tracts 12 The Calvinist and the friend of Knox and the altar destroyers. 1874 Evangelical Repository June 298 These devout altar-builders to the Unknown God. 1914 Philistine May 107 Diary of an altar wrecker. 1997 A. Jacobs tr. D. Colas Civil Soc. & Fanaticism 114 Luther opposed the same argument..against all image and altar smashers. 2006 T. A. Tweed Crossing & Dwelling (2008) iv. 107 Catholic altar makers in rural Mexico have constructed sacred spaces in their one-room dwellings. < as lemmas |
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