单词 | antetheme |
释义 | antethemen. Now historical. A text prefixed to a sermon or discourse as its theme or motto. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > [noun] > instance of > text of > prefixed to sermon antethemec1454 c1454 R. Pecock Folewer to Donet 104 (MED) A precher..made a long antetheme vndir declaracioun of þese wordis... ‘Argue, obsecra, increpa [etc.]’... Such an antetheme he ladde bi space of long tyme... Whanne he procedid in þe bodi and substaunce and cors of his sermoun vndir þis theme: ‘Amici mei [etc.].’ a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) II. f. viiv He made vnto them colacions or exortacions & toke for his Anteteme Haurietis aquas in gaudio de fontibus saluatoris. a1529 J. Skelton Magnyfycence (?1530) sig. Biv To preche..without an antetyme. 1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement iii. f. xviiv/2 Anthetyme, [Fr.] thieme. ?1567 Merie Tales Master Skelton sig. Biv As I said before in my Antethem. 1568 A. Scott Poems (1896) 6 Protestandis takis þe freiris auld antetewme, Reddie ressauaris, bot to rander nocht. 1580 J. Stow Chrons. of Eng. 1094 He beganne his Sermon wyth this Antitheme: Ne timeas Maria, inuenisti enim gratiam apud Deum. 1940 Jrnl. Eng. & Germanic Philol. 39 232 These same tags [in English verse] also served as ante-themes or ‘texts’ to help the preacher remember the heads of his sermons. 2005 P. B. Roberts in R. B. Begley & J. W. Koterski Medieval Educ. ii. vi. 91 The sermon included the opening prayer for divine aid, the protheme (or antetheme) or introduction of the theme [etc.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2016; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1454 |
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