单词 | franciscan |
释义 | Franciscann.adj. A. n. A friar, sister, or lay member of the Christian religious order founded by St Francis of Assisi in 1209, or of another order based on its rule.Divergences of practice led to the separation of the Friars Minor of the Observance (the Observants) and the Friars Minor Conventual (the Conventuals) in 1517, and to the foundation of the stricter Friars Minor Capuchin (the Capuchins) in 1529. The order of Franciscan nuns, known as ‘Poor Clares’, was founded c1212 by St Clare under the direction of St Francis. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] Friar Minorc1230 Grey friara1350 minor?c1450 Sister Minor1473 Franciscan1534 Minorite1537 seraphic1680 seraphic friar1826 Minorist1836 1534 tr. Erasmus Dyaloge Funus sig. Avii The seke man was confessed to ye francyscane. 1599 E. Sandys Europæ Speculum (1632) 67 The Franciscans..in the time of Sixtus Quintus..are sayd to have beene found by survey to be xxx. thousand. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy iii. iii. iii. 688 A silly iealous fellowe,..seeing his child new borne included in a kell, thought sure a Franciscan..was the father of it, it was so like a Friers Cowle. 1677 R. Plot Nat. Hist. Oxford-shire 216 This Learned Franciscan did so far excel the ancient Magicians. 1720 H. Wanley Let. 26 Apr. (1989) 419 At Florence, the..Franciscans..have a large Collection of Greek MSS. 1756 M. Calderwood Lett. & Jrnls. (1884) x. 265 The Franciscans..are drest like the Capucines, but have no bairds. 1774 T. Warton Hist. Eng. Poetry I. ix. 294 The Franciscans..enjoyed from the popes the privilege of distributing indulgences, a valuable indemnification for their voluntary poverty. 1822 M. Graham Jrnl. 15 Sept. in Captain's Wife (1993) 115 When the Franciscans first began the conversion of the Indians in this part of Chile, they fixed their convent at Talagante, the village of the palms which we passed through the other day. 1856 R. A. Vaughan Hours with Mystics (1860) I. 143 Enthusiastic Franciscans who think the end of the world at hand. 1898 Argosy Nov. 679 He is a Franciscan—an active partisan. 1935 Amer. Mercury Feb. 175/1 The stay-at-home, penitential ‘Poor Clares’, never meet and know nothing of the busy-bee Franciscans, who hurry hither and thither visiting, teaching, missionising. 1995 P. Conroy Beach Music (1996) xviii. 313 Every Franciscan we talked to was sure this man was not a member of their order. B. adj. Of or relating to the order of St Francis or the Franciscans. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [adjective] Franciscan1536 seraphical doctora1540 Minorite1563 1536 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Convocation in J. Watkins Serm. & Life Latimer (1858) I. 48 Swaged and cowled with a Franciscan's cowl. 1599 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet v. ii. 1 Holy Franciscan Frier, brother, ho. View more context for this quotation 1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. ix. xx. 751/1 Sixe religious Houses for Franciscan Friers, three of them for Obseruants, and the other three for Conuentuals. 1648 T. Gage Eng.-Amer. 58 This man alone built a Nunery of Franciscan Nuns. 1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost iii. 480 They who..Dying put on the weeds of Dominic, Or in Franciscan think to pass disguis'd. View more context for this quotation 1710 R. Sutton Despatches 12 Feb. (1953) 42 On board the said Bark were three Franciscan Friars..with 6 chests of mony and Ingots of gold..collected in Portugal for the Franciscan convent at Jerusalem. 1797 R. Southey Lett. from Spain xxiv. 418 Of the Mendicants the most numerous is the Serafic, or Franciscan order. 1833 A. Crichton Hist. Arabia I. i. 29 (note) He exposed the errors and superstitions of the Church of Rome, so as to alarm the Propagandists, who employed a Franciscan friar to refute it. 1865 E. B. Pusey Eirenicon 36 The long Franciscan controversy about poverty. 1897 Catholic Dict. (ed. 5) 726/2 The first monastery of Franciscan nuns or Minoresses formed in England (1293) was outside Aldgate. 1930 Universe 28 Mar. 4/4 The Mother Vicaress of the Franciscan Convent, Taunton..died last week and was buried on Saturday. 1952 R. Campbell Lorca 28 He [sc. Lorca] affects a sort of Lilliputian minuteness, almost Franciscan in its intimacy. 1968 S. Heaney in Listener 22 Aug. 245/3 The more relaxed and loaded form includes his best poems, all of which exhale something of a Franciscan love of every living thing. 2004 New Yorker 6 Sept. 31/1 But Beppe's cooking is purely Franciscan: all for the barefoot, the countryish, the organic. Derivatives Franˈciscanism n. the system and practice of St Francis and the Franciscans. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious order > Franciscan > [noun] > system of Franciscanism1826 1826 R. Southey Vindiciæ Ecclesiæ Anglicanæ 40 That Benedictinism, and Franciscanism,..with their respective..superstitions, are no part of the Roman Catholic system. 1855 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity IV. ix. x. 275 The first patron of Franciscanism, Gregory IX. 1997 Church Times 19 Dec. 16/5 Why did Franciscanism develop late in the Church of England? This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1534 |
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