单词 | ambonoclast |
释义 | ambonoclastn. Church History. Now rare and historical. A person who advocates or carries out the removal of rood screens from churches. Also as a modifier. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > furniture > lectern or pulpit > [noun] > one in favour of abolishing ambonoclast1841 1841 A. W. Pugin in Dublin Rev. May 321 Those innovators who ventured to remove them [sc. rood screens] during the last century, and whom he [sc. Jean-Baptiste Thiers] most appropriately designates as Ambonoclasts. 1916 W. H. A. Vallance in Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 24 116 This phase of the ambonoclast movement. 1936 W. H. A. Vallance Eng. Church Screens ix. 79 Queen Elizabeth's Bishops, many of them more ardent ambonoclasts than their mistress. 1987 M. Belcher A. W. N. Pugin 282 His four chapters describing the different types of ambonoclast. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2020; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1841 |
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