单词 | father general |
释义 | > as lemmasFather General Father General n. (also with lower-case initials) the head of a religious order or community, esp. the Society of Jesus (Jesuits). ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > [noun] > Jesuit Father General1581 black pope1851 1581 E. Campion in M. Hanmer Great Bragge & Challenge Confuted f. 8 I toke my voyage from Prage to Rome where our sayde Father Generall is alwaye resident. 1587 A. Fleming et al. Holinshed's Chron. (new ed.) III. Contin. 1326/1 Their father generall deliuering them what he hath in office. 1679 I. Bargrave tr. F. Micanzio Exact Discov. Myst. Iniquity 16 All these..do serve as Intelligencers to the Father General. 1762 T. Flloyd tr. N. L. Dufresnoy Chronological Tables I. p. lxvii It happened sometime before, the father-general of the jesuits had obliged him to go into the world. 1885 Franciscan Ann. 9 380 The Father General of the Franciscan Capuchins in the East. 1996 M. D. Russell Sparrow xiii. 114 The Father General..was a man of great spirituality and almost no business sense. < as lemmas |
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