| 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). < | 
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