单词 | father minim |
释义 | > as lemmasFather Minim 1. Usually in form Minim. A friar belonging to the order of Minim Brothers (Ordo Fratrum Minimorum) founded, traditionally in 1435, by St Francis of Paola. More fully Minim Friar, †Father Minim. ΚΠ 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vii. v. 142 b The order of Minimes or lest brethren were founded by one Franciscus Paula. 1638 R. Baker tr. J. L. G. de Balzac New Epist. III. 49 The Fathers of the Minimme Order. 1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxv. 232 The Fathers Minims were then come hither to found. 1686 Bp. G. Burnet Some Lett. conc. Switzerland iv. 194 The Minims..live on the great square before the Viceroys Palace. a1718 W. Penn Maxims in Wks. (1726) I. 825 He [sc. the covetous man] always looks like Lent: a sort of Lay-Minim. a1774 O. Goldsmith tr. P. Scarron Comic Romance (1775) I. xiii. 124 Two Minim friars of the Trinity of the mount..ran to my assistance. 1885 W. W. Roberts Pontif. Decrees Introd. 53 The Minims Le Seur and Jacquier were permitted to bring out the treatise. 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xii. [Cyclops] 324 Capuchins, cordeliers, minimes and observants. 1994 Times Lit. Suppl. 21 Jan. 25/2 There are accounts of..decimo and other unusual formats, the unedifying life of a Scots Minim, and the publishing history of two collections of Greek speeches. < as lemmas |
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