| 单词 | font-hallowing | 
| 释义 | > as lemmasfont-hallowing   font-hallowing  n. now historical the act of blessing or reconsecrating baptismal water; this as a ritual or ceremony; (hence by extension) the blessing or reconsecration of the baptismal font.Quot. 2000   translates the use of Old English fonthalgung in quot. OE1. ΚΠ OE    Lacnunga 		(2001)	 I. lxiii. 32  				Wæter gehalga fonthalgunge, & do ceac innan in ða buteran. OE    On Mass: Celebration on Vigils in  B. Fehr Die Hirtenbriefe Ælfrics 		(1914)	 230  				Þæræfter gange se mæssepreost to ðam fanthalgunge mid fiffealdum letanian. a1398    J. Trevisa tr.  Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum 		(BL Add. 27944)	 		(1975)	 I.  ix. xxxi. 548  				Þanne me gooþ wiþ processioun to þe funte halewinge. a1450						 (?a1390)						    J. Mirk Instr. Parish Priests 		(Claud.)	 		(1974)	 l. 145  				Alle þe chyldren þat ben I-bore Byfore aster and whyssone-tyde, Eghte dayes they schullen a-byde, That at the font halowynge They mowe take here folowynge. 1776    J. Strutt Horda Angel-Cynnan III. 174  				Among many various ceremonies, I find that they had called one ‘The Font Hallowing’, which was performed on Easter even, and Whitsunday eve. 1920    Chatterbox 262/1  				Till quite recent times in some places babies were not christened till Easter or Whit-Sunday... A ceremony called ‘Font-hallowing’ took place on the eves of these festivals, in preparation for the baptisms on the following Sundays. 2000    S. Pollington tr.  Lacnunga MS in  Leechcraft vi. 203  				Chop all the plants together very small, and hallow some water by a font-hallowing. < as lemmas | 
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