单词 | field meeting |
释义 | field meetingn.ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > armed encounter > [noun] > single combat or duel handplayeOE deraignc1300 battlea1400 duellation1502 two-hand battlec1503 combat1567 push of pick1578 monomachy1582 combacy1586 hand fight1587 duel1589 rencounter1590 single fight1598 field meeting1603 camp-fight1605 duello1606 judicial combat1610 fight of stand?1611 stand-fight?1611 business1612 monomachia1624 single combat1625 single field1630 duelliona1637 rencontrea1722 affair of honour1737 meeting1813 holmgang1847 mensur1848 duomachy1885 1603 H. Crosse Vertues Common-wealth sig. C1v Swashbucklers, whose hot bloud..cannot be cooled without reuenge and field-meetings. 2. A religious meeting held in the open air. Cf. field conventicle n. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > observance, ritual > meeting for observance > [noun] > in open air field meetinga1657 field conventicle1670 camp-meeting1803 a1657 G. Daniel Trinarchodia: Henry V lvii, in Poems (1878) IV. 115 The first Sts..Had such feild-meetings. 1678 in J. Lauder Decisions Lords of Council (1759) I. 14 The Devil's deception in representing such persons as present at their field-meetings who truly were not there. 1738 Caledonian Mercury 4 Sept. On Sunday the 27th of August there was a Field-Meeting held in the Parish of Kilmacomb. 1780 London Courant 18 Oct. She was baptized at one of the field meetings during the persecution under Charles II. 1818 W. Scott Heart of Mid-Lothian iii, in Tales of my Landlord 2nd Ser. II. 54 He..had been present at a field-meeting at Crochmade. 1882 J. Taylor Sc. Covenanters 72 The bishops sought..to deter the people from frequenting the field-meetings. 1904 J. A. Hopper Old–time Primitive Methodism in Canada 119 The travelling preacher assisted at a field-meeting in Hamilton. 1948 S. D. Clark Church & Sect in Canada 156 The Wesleyan missionaries found it necessary to develop what they called field meetings as a means of attracting the attention of the population outside the Methodist fold. 1997 Church Times 11 July 12/2 The rocky hills and shores rang with illegal ‘conventicles’ or field meetings, and many a rousing sermon was preached in the hills by ministers. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1603 |
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