单词 | festschrift |
释义 | festschriftn. 1. A collection of writings published in honour of a scholar, usually to mark a significant birthday, retirement, etc.In quot. 1871: †a monograph published to celebrate an important event (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > a written composition > a compilation > [noun] > collection presented to scholar festschrift1871 birthday book1899 1871 Western Times (Exeter) 1 May 3/5 The Protestant Theological Faculty at Vienna celebrated..the fiftieth anniversary of its foundation. Prof. Lipsius..wrote a Festschrift for the occasion. 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Med. Sci. 96 311 On the occasion of the retirement of Professor Donders..he was presented by a number of his former pupils with a Festschrift, in the shape of a handsome volume, containing original contributions from forty different authors. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 1 Oct. 757/3 Lectures, collected papers and Festschriften. 1967 Listener 25 May 690/1 Garlands, festschrifts and birthday books tend to be tedious. 1977 J. I. M. Stewart Madonna of Astrolabe vi. 97 They offered him a little Festschrift for his sixty-fifth birthday. 2019 Telegraph (India) (Nexis) 21 June A festschrift for Gautam Bhadra, On Modern Indian Sensibilities is a collection of meticulously researched essays, many of which are inspired in some way by Bhadra's work. 2. A symposium held to honour a scholar or eminent person in a particular field of study, usually to mark a significant birthday, retirement, etc.Typically, the papers from the collection of writings described at sense 1 are presented during the symposium. ΚΠ 1902 Med. Standard Oct. 527/2 The Festschrift, held in October, 1901, in honor of his eightieth birthday, participated in by the medical men of all nations, and celebrated in nearly every medical center of the world, is still in our minds. 1970 V. Nabokov Let. 20 Feb. (1989) 467 I deeply appreciate the enormous and tender trouble you took over the splendid Festschrift, both as ceremony-master and convive. 1990 Second Lang. Res. Dec. 157 You have only to read the list of participants at the Festschrift held on his retirement in 1983, whose proceedings have since been published as a volume on interlanguage, to realise the extent of his [sc. Pit Corder's] influence. 2010 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 2 Oct. 732/3 Colleagues from around the world held a festschrift in his honour on his 75th birthday in 1995. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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