apostlen.

/əˈpɒs(ə)l/

Forms: α. Old English–Middle English apostol, Middle English apostel, Middle English–1500s apostill, Middle English appostil(l, Middle English appostyle, apostylle, aposteyl, 1500s apostyl, apostell. β. Middle English– apostle, Middle English appostle. γ. ApheticMiddle English–1600s postel, postle, Middle English postyll, Middle English postill(e.

Etymology: Two forms must be distinguished: α. Old English apostol (whence Middle English apostel, -yl), < Romanic apostol(o or Latin apostolus ( < Greek ἀπόστολος a messenger, one sent forth, < ἀποστέλλειν to send away). β. the current apostle (found already c1225), < Old French (12th cent.) apostle (13th cent. apostre, modern apôtre); with the mutescence of final e, the two were confused, and in 16th cent. the Old French spelling prevailed. The popular form in Middle English was the aphetized postel, now obsolete.

I. A person sent.

†1.

a. (As in Greek) One sent on an errand, a messenger. (A verbalism of translation.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger

erendrakec825

bodec888

apostlec950

sand1038

sandesman1123

sanderbodec1200

bearer?c1225

errand-bearer?c1225

messenger?c1225

erindeberea1250

sand-manc1275

beadsman1377

herald1377

messagea1382

runnera1382

sendmana1400

interpreter1490

nuntius1534

post1535

pursuivant?1536

nuncius1573

nuncio1587

carrier1594

nunciate1596

mercury1597

chiaus1599

foreranger1612

postera1614

irisa1616

missivea1616

chouse1632

angela1637

caduceator1684

purpose messenger1702

errand-bringer1720

harkara1747

commissionaire1749

carrier pigeon1785

errander1803

errand-porter1818

tchaush1819

card carrier1845

errand-goer1864

choush1866

ghulam1882

c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xiii. 16 Nis esne mara drihtne his ne ǽc apostol [Ags. & Hatton, ærendracca, arendrake] mara ðæm seðe sendes hine.

c1382 J. Wyclif John xiii. 16 Neither apostle is more than he that sente him.

1582 Bible (Rheims) John xiii. 16 Neither is an apostle [1611 he that is sent] greater then he that sent him.

1582 Bible (Rheims) Phil. ii. 25 Epaphroditus..your Apostle [so Wyclif and Tindale; 1611 messenger].

b. Applied in the New Testament to Jesus Christ.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > according to other attributes

horn of salvation (health)c825

fatherOE

sun of righteousnessOE

priestc1175

leecha1200

vinec1315

apostlec1382

amenc1384

shepherdc1384

the Wisdom of the Father1402

high priest1526

pelican1526

mediatora1530

reconcilerc1531

branch1535

morning star1535

surety1535

vicar1651

arch-shepherd1656

hierarch1855

particularity1930

c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. iii. 1 Biholde ȝe the apostle and bischop of oure confessioun, Jhesu.

1611 Bible (King James) Heb. iii. 1 The Apostle and high Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus.

2. spec. (Now with capital initial.) The twelve witnesses whom Jesus Christ sent forth to preach his Gospel to the world; also the subsequently-commissioned Barnabas (Acts xiii. 2, xiv. 14), and Paul, the ‘Apostle of the Gentiles’.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > apostle > [noun]

the twelvec950

apostlec975

'postleOE

c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. x. 2 Þara twelf apostola noma sindun þas.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 Crist ableow þana halȝa gast ofer þa apostlas.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Of þon apostlum.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Þe apostel Paulus.

c1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 His halie word..þurh ðere apostlene muðe.

?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 7 Seint iames þe wes godes apostel.

1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4300 To God mare dere, Þan ever war Cristes appostels here.

1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. (new ed.) II. Rom. Argt. sig. i^v Some of them, whiche so accused Peter, were of thapostles them selfe.

a1658 J. Cleveland Parliam. xi Because th' Apostles Creed is lame, Th' Assembly doth a better frame. Te Deum, The glorious company of the Apostles praise Thee.

a. One who in any way imitates, or may be said to resemble, the Apostles.

ΚΠ

c1400 Rom. Rose 6273 If ther be wolves of sich hewe, Amonges these apostlis newe.

1533 T. More Apol. xxiv, in Wks. (1557) 888/1 The new Paule, thys apostle Frith.

1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 79 As if the King's booted apostles had been coming to plant the faith among them, by plundering the little that was left.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Apostolici A Name assum'd by two different Sects of Hereticks, on account of their pretending to imitate the Manners and Practice of the Apostles.

b. esp. The missionary who first plants Christianity in any region. (Also used of certain specially successful ministers of the Gospel.)

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts > who first brings Christianity to place

apostlea1530

a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. 5506 Quhen conwertyd he had that land, The Appostill thai cald hym off Ingland.

1844 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. viii. i. i. §4 Boniface has gained the title of the Apostle of Germany.

1883 Echo 1 Sept. 4/1 Dr. Macdonald, of Ferintosh..familiarly called the ‘Apostle of the North.’

c. The chief advocate of a new principle or system; the leader of a great reform; e.g. Father Mathew, the ‘Apostle of Temperance’.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > first or chief

moverc1385

motor1600

prime mover1633

actuator1652

apostle1810

prophet1842

society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader > of a cause or movement

soul1640

apostle1810

1810 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Feb. in Writings (1984) 1217 The first and chiefest apostle of the desolation of men and morals.

1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 233 M. Comte is distinctly an apostle of science.

1871 S. Smiles Character v. 154 Who has not heard of..Miss Nightingale and Miss Garrett as apostles of hospital nursing?

d. (With capital initial.) A member of ‘The Apostles’, an exclusive society in the University of Cambridge, founded in 1820 as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, and numbering many subsequently pre-eminent literary and other figures. Frequently in plural.

ΘΚΠ

society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > other secret societies > member of

Ribbonman1813

Ribandman1817

ribandist1824

apostle1829

Molly Maguire1844

Molly Maguireite1853

Camorrist1863

mafioso1875

Black Hander1905

Molly1917

leopard-man1929

Mafiaist1948

mafiosa1965

1829 R. M. Milnes Let. 5 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. ii. 80 We have had some capital debates in our society called ‘The Apostles’.

1830 A. H. Hallam Let. 23 June in J. F. Maurice Life F. D. Maurice (1884) I. ix. 110 The effect which he [sc. F. D. Maurice] has produced on the minds of many at Cambridge by the single creation of that Society of the Apostles (for the spirit, though not the form, was created by him) is far greater than I can dare to calculate.

1887 R. Fry Lett. (1972) I. 115 As a great secret—I have been made an Apostle.

1902 A. Lyall Tennyson i. 7 Tennyson was numbered among the Apostles at Cambridge.

1914 V. Woolf Let. Apr. (1976) II. 47 We've let it to Keynes for a reading party next week... I gather they are to be mostly Apostles.

1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. vi. 236 At Cambridge he [sc. Desmond MacCarthy] had been the golden boy of the Apostles, as Hallam had been once upon a time and Rupert Brooke would be presently.

1967 M. Holroyd Lytton Strachey I. v. 157 The Apostles differed from the usual undergraduate societies in the fact that members did not cease to belong once they had graduated or gone down.

1967 M. Holroyd Lytton Strachey I. v. 158 The Apostles had been—and still are—a ‘secret’ body.

1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason ii. 73 Another attachment between Burgess and Blunt was their common membership of the exclusive club of cultural élitists known as The Apostles.

†4. The Acts and Epistles of the Apostles. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun]

hallowa885

sainta1300

apostlea1400

anointed1528

saintya1529

Holy One1535

holy1548

Mar1622

society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Acts of the Apostles > [noun]

Deeds of the Apostlesc1380

apostlea1400

a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 48 Hem that reversyng the aposteyl and seyden, ‘do we yvel thingis that ther comyn gode thingis.’

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Apostle is also used to denote the book of St. Paul's epistles, or the epistle which was taken out of them.

1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. ix. 289 The Christian scriptures were divided into two parts, under the general titles of the gospels and apostles.

II. A message. [The non-ecclesiastical Latin use of apostolus, found in the Pandects. Also in Old French.]

†5. A letter dimissory.

a. In plural. Roman Law. A short statement of the case, sent up by a lower to a higher court, when an appeal is made. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > transfer of action

advocationc1540

letter of request1694

apostle1726

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 75 The Cause why it is appeal'd, and the Demand or Petition for Apostles.

1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 345 This is called a Dimissory Libel, or Letters Dimissory; and, in other Terms, by the Name of Apostles.

b. Ecclesiastical Law. (See quot. 1753.) Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > council > bishops > [noun] > letter from > dimissory

apostle1753

1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. [transl. Du Cange] Apostle..a letter dimissory given by a bishop either to a clerk or a layman, when going into another diocese.

Compounds

apostle-bird n. (also apostle) a name applied to various birds in Australia (see quots.).

ΘΚΠ

the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > struthidea cinerea (apostle-bird)

apostle-bird1934

happy family1958

1901 A. J. North Nests & Eggs of Birds (Austral. Mus., Sydney, Spec. Catal. 1) I. 18 From their habit of associating in flocks, they are known nearly all over New South Wales, and the south-eastern portions of Queensland, as the ‘Twelve Apostles’, a name also shared in some parts with that of ‘Happy Family’ for Pomatostomus Temporalis.]

1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Apostle bird, the gray jumper.

1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 211 The Grey-crowned Babbler is known also as the apostle-bird.

1962 New Scientist 15 Mar. 606/1 They are members of the babbler or apostle-bird family (Timaliidae).

1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 442/2 The Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea..is..about 13 inches in length..of grey plumage..and has a short, stout bill. It gets its name from its habit of going about in parties of about twelve. The bird lives in the drier parts of eastern Australia.

† apostles' ointment n. Obsolete a purifying ointment composed of twelve ingredients.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment > specific

eye salveeOE

diachylon1313

populeona1398

euphorbinec1400

marciaton?a1425

nerval?c1450

basilicon?1541

pilgrim-salvec1580

nerve oil1592

apostles' ointment1721

blue ointment1721

yellow basilicon1746

Kalydor1824

blue butter1838

Holloway's ointment1838

lip balm1853

chapstick1891

wool-wax1911

barrier cream1950

1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. xv. 280 The Apostle's Ointment..to deterge and cleanse foul Sores.

† apostles' salt n. Obsolete an obsolete medicinal preparation.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun]

pesse1464

adarces1566

marmaritin1584

apostles' salt1605

methium?1608

panther1656

lenociny1657

aroph1658

fox-lungs1660

Dutch drops1843

penicillamine1943

1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. viii. 34 The Apostles Salt..preserueth the sight to a very great age, clenseth the lunges from tough phleame, etc.

apostle skull n.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [noun] > types of skull

apostle skull1866

chamaeprosope1900

1866 S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 70 Very long and narrow skulls, known as ‘Apostle skulls.’

apostle-like adj.

ΚΠ

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Apostolique..apostlelike.

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单词	apostle
释义	apostlen. /əˈpɒs(ə)l/ Forms: α. Old English–Middle English apostol, Middle English apostel, Middle English–1500s apostill, Middle English appostil(l, Middle English appostyle, apostylle, aposteyl, 1500s apostyl, apostell. β. Middle English– apostle, Middle English appostle. γ. ApheticMiddle English–1600s postel, postle, Middle English postyll, Middle English postill(e. Etymology: Two forms must be distinguished: α. Old English apostol (whence Middle English apostel, -yl), < Romanic apostol(o or Latin apostolus ( < Greek ἀπόστολος a messenger, one sent forth, < ἀποστέλλειν to send away). β. the current apostle (found already c1225), < Old French (12th cent.) apostle (13th cent. apostre, modern apôtre); with the mutescence of final e, the two were confused, and in 16th cent. the Old French spelling prevailed. The popular form in Middle English was the aphetized postel, now obsolete. I. A person sent. †1. a. (As in Greek) One sent on an errand, a messenger. (A verbalism of translation.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > communication > information > message > [noun] > messenger erendrakec825 bodec888 apostlec950 sand1038 sandesman1123 sanderbodec1200 bearer?c1225 errand-bearer?c1225 messenger?c1225 erindeberea1250 sand-manc1275 beadsman1377 herald1377 messagea1382 runnera1382 sendmana1400 interpreter1490 nuntius1534 post1535 pursuivant?1536 nuncius1573 nuncio1587 carrier1594 nunciate1596 mercury1597 chiaus1599 foreranger1612 postera1614 irisa1616 missivea1616 chouse1632 angela1637 caduceator1684 purpose messenger1702 errand-bringer1720 harkara1747 commissionaire1749 carrier pigeon1785 errander1803 errand-porter1818 tchaush1819 card carrier1845 errand-goer1864 choush1866 ghulam1882 c950 Lindisf. Gosp. John xiii. 16 Nis esne mara drihtne his ne ǽc apostol [Ags. & Hatton, ærendracca, arendrake] mara ðæm seðe sendes hine. c1382 J. Wyclif John xiii. 16 Neither apostle is more than he that sente him. 1582 Bible (Rheims) John xiii. 16 Neither is an apostle [1611 he that is sent] greater then he that sent him. 1582 Bible (Rheims) Phil. ii. 25 Epaphroditus..your Apostle [so Wyclif and Tindale; 1611 messenger]. b. Applied in the New Testament to Jesus Christ. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > Christian God > the Trinity > the Son or Christ > [noun] > according to other attributes horn of salvation (health)c825 fatherOE sun of righteousnessOE priestc1175 leecha1200 vinec1315 apostlec1382 amenc1384 shepherdc1384 the Wisdom of the Father1402 high priest1526 pelican1526 mediatora1530 reconcilerc1531 branch1535 morning star1535 surety1535 vicar1651 arch-shepherd1656 hierarch1855 particularity1930 c1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) Heb. iii. 1 Biholde ȝe the apostle and bischop of oure confessioun, Jhesu. 1611 Bible (King James) Heb. iii. 1 The Apostle and high Priest of our profession, Christ Jesus. View more context for this quotation 2. spec. (Now with capital initial.) The twelve witnesses whom Jesus Christ sent forth to preach his Gospel to the world; also the subsequently-commissioned Barnabas (Acts xiii. 2, xiv. 14), and Paul, the ‘Apostle of the Gentiles’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Biblical personages > apostle > [noun] the twelvec950 apostlec975 'postleOE c975 Rushw. Gosp. Matt. x. 2 Þara twelf apostola noma sindun þas. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 99 Crist ableow þana halȝa gast ofer þa apostlas. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 93 Of þon apostlum. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 117 Þe apostel Paulus. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 133 His halie word..þurh ðere apostlene muðe. ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 7 Seint iames þe wes godes apostel. 1340 R. Rolle Pricke of Conscience 4300 To God mare dere, Þan ever war Cristes appostels here. 1549 M. Coverdale et al. tr. Erasmus Paraphr. Newe Test. (new ed.) II. Rom. Argt. sig. i^v Some of them, whiche so accused Peter, were of thapostles them selfe. a1658 J. Cleveland Parliam. xi Because th' Apostles Creed is lame, Th' Assembly doth a better frame. Te Deum, The glorious company of the Apostles praise Thee. 3. a. One who in any way imitates, or may be said to resemble, the Apostles. ΚΠ c1400 Rom. Rose 6273 If ther be wolves of sich hewe, Amonges these apostlis newe. 1533 T. More Apol. xxiv, in Wks. (1557) 888/1 The new Paule, thys apostle Frith. 1659 T. Burton Diary (1828) IV. 79 As if the King's booted apostles had been coming to plant the faith among them, by plundering the little that was left. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. at Apostolici A Name assum'd by two different Sects of Hereticks, on account of their pretending to imitate the Manners and Practice of the Apostles. b. esp. The missionary who first plants Christianity in any region. (Also used of certain specially successful ministers of the Gospel.) ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > preaching > proselytization > mission > [noun] > one who conducts > who first brings Christianity to place apostlea1530 a1530 (c1425) Andrew of Wyntoun Oryg. Cron. Scotl. (Royal) v. 5506 Quhen conwertyd he had that land, The Appostill thai cald hym off Ingland. 1844 A. Maclaine tr. J. L. von Mosheim Eccl. Hist. viii. i. i. §4 Boniface has gained the title of the Apostle of Germany. 1883 Echo 1 Sept. 4/1 Dr. Macdonald, of Ferintosh..familiarly called the ‘Apostle of the North.’ c. The chief advocate of a new principle or system; the leader of a great reform; e.g. Father Mathew, the ‘Apostle of Temperance’. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > motivation > [noun] > incitement or instigation > one who incites or instigates > first or chief moverc1385 motor1600 prime mover1633 actuator1652 apostle1810 prophet1842 society > authority > control > person in control > [noun] > leader > of a cause or movement soul1640 apostle1810 1810 T. Jefferson Let. 10 Feb. in Writings (1984) 1217 The first and chiefest apostle of the desolation of men and morals. 1870 J. B. Brown First Princ. Eccl. Truth 233 M. Comte is distinctly an apostle of science. 1871 S. Smiles Character v. 154 Who has not heard of..Miss Nightingale and Miss Garrett as apostles of hospital nursing? d. (With capital initial.) A member of ‘The Apostles’, an exclusive society in the University of Cambridge, founded in 1820 as the Cambridge Conversazione Society, and numbering many subsequently pre-eminent literary and other figures. Frequently in plural. ΘΚΠ society > society and the community > social relations > an association, society, or organization > secret society > [noun] > other secret societies > member of Ribbonman1813 Ribandman1817 ribandist1824 apostle1829 Molly Maguire1844 Molly Maguireite1853 Camorrist1863 mafioso1875 Black Hander1905 Molly1917 leopard-man1929 Mafiaist1948 mafiosa1965 1829 R. M. Milnes Let. 5 Dec. in T. W. Reid Life Ld. Houghton (1890) I. ii. 80 We have had some capital debates in our society called ‘The Apostles’. 1830 A. H. Hallam Let. 23 June in J. F. Maurice Life F. D. Maurice (1884) I. ix. 110 The effect which he [sc. F. D. Maurice] has produced on the minds of many at Cambridge by the single creation of that Society of the Apostles (for the spirit, though not the form, was created by him) is far greater than I can dare to calculate. 1887 R. Fry Lett. (1972) I. 115 As a great secret—I have been made an Apostle. 1902 A. Lyall Tennyson i. 7 Tennyson was numbered among the Apostles at Cambridge. 1914 V. Woolf Let. Apr. (1976) II. 47 We've let it to Keynes for a reading party next week... I gather they are to be mostly Apostles. 1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. vi. 236 At Cambridge he [sc. Desmond MacCarthy] had been the golden boy of the Apostles, as Hallam had been once upon a time and Rupert Brooke would be presently. 1967 M. Holroyd Lytton Strachey I. v. 157 The Apostles differed from the usual undergraduate societies in the fact that members did not cease to belong once they had graduated or gone down. 1967 M. Holroyd Lytton Strachey I. v. 158 The Apostles had been—and still are—a ‘secret’ body. 1979 A. Boyle Climate of Treason ii. 73 Another attachment between Burgess and Blunt was their common membership of the exclusive club of cultural élitists known as The Apostles. †4. The Acts and Epistles of the Apostles. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > holiness > saint > [noun] hallowa885 sainta1300 apostlea1400 anointed1528 saintya1529 Holy One1535 holy1548 Mar1622 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > New Testament > Acts of the Apostles > [noun] Deeds of the Apostlesc1380 apostlea1400 a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) II. 48 Hem that reversyng the aposteyl and seyden, ‘do we yvel thingis that ther comyn gode thingis.’ 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Apostle is also used to denote the book of St. Paul's epistles, or the epistle which was taken out of them. 1794 W. Paley View Evidences Christianity I. i. ix. 289 The Christian scriptures were divided into two parts, under the general titles of the gospels and apostles. II. A message. [The non-ecclesiastical Latin use of apostolus, found in the Pandects. Also in Old French.] †5. A letter dimissory. a. In plural. Roman Law. A short statement of the case, sent up by a lower to a higher court, when an appeal is made. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > ecclesiastical discipline > court > legal process > [noun] > transfer of action advocationc1540 letter of request1694 apostle1726 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 75 The Cause why it is appeal'd, and the Demand or Petition for Apostles. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 345 This is called a Dimissory Libel, or Letters Dimissory; and, in other Terms, by the Name of Apostles. b. Ecclesiastical Law. (See quot. 1753.) Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > council > bishops > [noun] > letter from > dimissory apostle1753 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. [transl. Du Cange] Apostle..a letter dimissory given by a bishop either to a clerk or a layman, when going into another diocese. Compounds apostle-bird n. (also apostle) a name applied to various birds in Australia (see quots.). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Passeriformes (singing) > larger song birds > [noun] > family Grallinidae > struthidea cinerea (apostle-bird) apostle-bird1934 happy family1958 1901 A. J. North Nests & Eggs of Birds (Austral. Mus., Sydney, Spec. Catal. 1) I. 18 From their habit of associating in flocks, they are known nearly all over New South Wales, and the south-eastern portions of Queensland, as the ‘Twelve Apostles’, a name also shared in some parts with that of ‘Happy Family’ for Pomatostomus Temporalis.] 1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Apostle bird, the gray jumper. 1945 S. J. Baker Austral. Lang. xii. 211 The Grey-crowned Babbler is known also as the apostle-bird. 1962 New Scientist 15 Mar. 606/1 They are members of the babbler or apostle-bird family (Timaliidae). 1964 A. L. Thomson New Dict. Birds 442/2 The Apostlebird Struthidea cinerea..is..about 13 inches in length..of grey plumage..and has a short, stout bill. It gets its name from its habit of going about in parties of about twelve. The bird lives in the drier parts of eastern Australia. † apostles' ointment n. Obsolete a purifying ointment composed of twelve ingredients. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines of specific form > ointments, etc. > [noun] > ointment > specific eye salveeOE diachylon1313 populeona1398 euphorbinec1400 marciaton?a1425 nerval?c1450 basilicon?1541 pilgrim-salvec1580 nerve oil1592 apostles' ointment1721 blue ointment1721 yellow basilicon1746 Kalydor1824 blue butter1838 Holloway's ointment1838 lip balm1853 chapstick1891 wool-wax1911 barrier cream1950 1721 W. Gibson Farriers Dispensatory iii. xv. 280 The Apostle's Ointment..to deterge and cleanse foul Sores. † apostles' salt n. Obsolete an obsolete medicinal preparation. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > other miscellaneous medicines > [noun] pesse1464 adarces1566 marmaritin1584 apostles' salt1605 methium?1608 panther1656 lenociny1657 aroph1658 fox-lungs1660 Dutch drops1843 penicillamine1943 1605 T. Tymme tr. J. Du Chesne Pract. Chymicall & Hermeticall Physicke i. viii. 34 The Apostles Salt..preserueth the sight to a very great age, clenseth the lunges from tough phleame, etc. apostle skull n. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > skull > skull measurement > [noun] > types of skull apostle skull1866 chamaeprosope1900 1866 S. Laing Pre-hist. Remains Caithness 70 Very long and narrow skulls, known as ‘Apostle skulls.’ apostle-like adj. ΚΠ 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Apostolique..apostlelike. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.c950
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