单词 | flamen |
释义 | flamenn. 1. Roman History. A priest devoted to the service of a particular deity. †flamin diall= Latin flamen dialis, the flamen of Jupiter. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman father patrate1533 fetial1533 flamen1533 pontifex1579 pontiff1600 septemvir1600 pontifice1603 Arval Brethren1656 Salian1781 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1822) i. 34 Yit he institute the sacrifice that pertenit to the flamin diall. a1616 W. Shakespeare Coriolanus (1623) ii. i. 210 Seld-showne Flamins Doe presse among the popular Throngs. View more context for this quotation 1644 J. Milton Areopagitica 6 The Romans..knew of learning little but..what their Augurs and Flamins taught them. 1733 A. Pope Ess. Man iii. 265 Then first the Flamen tasted living Food. 1880 J. Muirhead tr. Gaius Institutes i. 42 No person is elected to the office of one of the greater flamens, i.e. a flamen of Jupiter, Mars, or Quirinus,..unless born of farreate parents. 2. transferred. Applied to other priests, etc. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > heathen (general) priestc1275 flamenc1400 fire-kindler1563 clergyman1609 fetisheer1613 divinea1616 churchman1632 shaman1698 Baal-priest1834 santero1950 c1400 Mandeville's Trav. (1839) xii. 141 The Archiflamyn or the Flamyn, as oure Erchebisshopp or Bisshopp..seythe thus. 1650 J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis 210 Egyptian Priests and other Flamines of the Natural Law used Circumcision. 1661 E. Hickeringill Jamaica 79 The Muses and their Flamens they cashiere. 1789 R. Burns Let. 13 Dec. (2001) I. 457 Ye venerable Sages & holy Flamens, is there any probability in your many conjectures? 1807 J. Barlow Columbiad iv. 149 Let the poor guardless natives never feel The flamen's fraud. 3. The Latin flamen and archiflamen (see arch-flamen n.) were used by Geoffrey of Monmouth to denote the two grades of alleged sacerdotal functionaries in heathen Britain, whose place was taken on the conversion of the island by bishops and archbishops. Hence pseudo-Historical in English writers. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient British flamenc1330 Druidan1509 Druid1565 c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. Wace (Rolls) 5756 Eyght & twenty flamins men tolde. a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 111 28 bisshoppis icleped flamynes. 1480 W. Caxton Descr. Brit. 25 To these archbisshops sees were subgette xxviij bisshops and were called flamines. 1612 M. Drayton Poly-olbion viii. 112 With Fanes vnto her Gods, and Flamins euerywhere. 1653 J. Collinges Responsoria ad Erratica Piscatoris Postscr. sig. T2v It holds as much for Bishops and Archbishops (instead of Flammins and Archflammins). 4. attributive, as flamen-priest. ΚΠ a1533 Ld. Berners tr. A. de Guevara Golden Bk. M. Aurelius (1537) ii. v. f. 114v Their gownes long lyke flamine prestes. Derivatives ˈflamenship n. the office of a flamen. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > [noun] > office of a priest priesthoodOE sanctuaryc1380 priestheada1400 priestdom1528 priestship1584 flamenship1600 sacerdotala1640 sacerdocya1706 long robe1762 sacerdoce1829 priestism1842 sacerdotalism1847 sacerdotium1931 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman > office of pontificate1581 flamenship1600 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. (1609) xxvi. xxiii. 601 C. Claudius, the Arch-flamine of Jupiter, lost his Flamineship. 1610 J. Healey tr. J. L. Vives in tr. St. Augustine Citie of God ii. xv. 77 Flamines, inheritours of the auncient Flaminshippe. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1896; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c1330 |
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