单词 | gods token |
释义 | God's tokenn. 1. A representation or sign of the Cross. Cf. rood-token n. at rood n. Compounds 1. Now rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > other practices > [noun] > sign of the cross God's tokenOE rood-tokenOE crouchc1000 crossa1225 sign of the (holy) cross (also rood, etc.)c1300 taua1475 OE Cynewulf Juliana 491 Sume, þa ic funde butan godes tacne, gymelease, ungebletsade, þeah [read þa] ic bealdlice þurh mislic cwealm minum hondum searoþoncum slog. lOE Homily: Gospel of Nicodemus (Vesp. D.xiv) in R. D.-N. Warner Early Eng. Homilies (1917) 87 Ac wyt sculen mid Godes tacne Antecristes anbidian, & ongean hine fihten. 1838 F. W. Faber in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 807 As the stern Angel of Death passed Egypt o'er And smote not, where God's token did appear. 1955 Ministers Man. 31 162/1 That sign is the Cross of Jesus Christ, God's Token. 2. An event or occurrence inspiring wonder, awe, etc., and interpreted as a demonstration of divine power; a miracle, a marvel. In later use chiefly used of natural phenomena and meteorological events. Cf. token n. 4. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > [noun] > attributes of god(s) > power > act or manifestation of tokenc897 God's tokenOE signa1325 signalc1450 show1548 OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 2nd Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) ii. 16 Ælc æfter oðrum cydde me þæt wundorlice godes tacn, and ic ðæs micclum gode ðancode. lOE St. Nicholas (Corpus Cambr.) (1997) 84 Soðlice, be þisum Godes tacn wæs ateowod hu mære man he gewurþen scolde. 1728 S. Wigglesworth (title) A religious fear of God's tokens, explained and urged in a sermon preached at Ipswich, November 1. 1727. Being a day of humiliation on account of the terrible earthquake. 1879 S. C. J. Ingham Pledge that Redeemed Itself x. 99 Nor are God's tokens meant for them who are too hard of heart to take them in. 1880 Rainbow Apr. 161 The very heathen are afraid at God's tokens, and awed into silence by the manifestations of His power. 1905 J. N. Lenker tr. M. Luther in Precious & Sacred Writings Martin Luther X. 74 Let the unbeliever doubt and despise God's tokens [Ger. gottis tzeychen] and speak of them as simply natural. 3. = plague spot n. 1a. Usually in plural. Cf. God's marks n. at god n. and int. Compounds 2c, and token n. 2b. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > suppuration > [noun] > a suppuration > abscess > ulcer > of plague buboc1425 plague sore1580 God's token1582 plague spot1620 token1634 plague marka1691 1582 J. Hester tr. L. Fioravanti Compend. Rationall Secretes iii. xxix. 45 Gods tokens, the whiche commonly come vnto those that haue the Pestilent Feuer. 1620 T. Gataker Davids Instructer 16 We are wont to say of those that haue Plague-spots, that they haue Gods tokens vpon them. 1694 P. A. Motteux tr. F. Rabelais Pantagruel's Voy.: 4th Bk. Wks. lii. 206 One had there the Small Pox, another God's Token, or the Plague spot. 1949 Irish Hist. Stud. 6 178 (note) In England, the haemorrhagic spots of plague were called ‘God's tokens’. 2002 W. Viereck in J. Berns & J. van Marle Present-day Dialectol. 125 With regard to disease, the following Christian motivations were among those I found in the British Isles:..God's marks or God's tokens for marks of the plague. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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