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单词 field meeting
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field meetingn.

Brit. /ˈfiːld ˌmiːtɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈfil(d) ˌmidɪŋ/
Forms: see field n.1 and meeting n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: field n.1, meeting n.
Etymology: < field n.1 + meeting n. With sense 2 compare field preaching n., field conventicle n.
1. A duel conducted in the open air. Obsolete. rare.
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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.
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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).
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