单词 | greek orthodox |
释义 | > as lemmasGreek Orthodox 3. Christian Church. Usually with capital initial. Of, relating to, or designating the churches of Eastern Christendom, esp. the family of independent or autonomous, chiefly national churches now located predominantly in Eastern Europe and the Balkans, which separated from the rest of Eastern Christendom in the 5th and 6th centuries and from the Roman Catholic Church in the 11th cent., and are in communion with each other, recognizing the primacy of the Patriarch of Constantinople; cf. Eastern Church n. at eastern adj. and n. Compounds 1. Frequently modified by national names, as Greek Orthodox, Russian Orthodox, etc.The Greek word ὀρθόδοξος was used in the 4th cent. of the beliefs of the church as opposed to those of heretics, and after the schism which followed the Definition of Chalcedon to distinguish those who accepted its Christological teachings from those who did not. However, the churches which reject the Definition of Chalcedon (the Armenian, Coptic, Ethiopian, and Syrian Churches, and the Church of the East) have more recently also been often termed Orthodox, and grouped under the heading Oriental Orthodox Churches (see also oriental adj. 3b). This might in part reflect the widespread assumption that the epithet ‘Orthodox’ refers to the time of the schism with Western Christendom and is to be opposed to ‘Catholic’. ΘΚΠ society > faith > sect > Christianity > Greek Orthodoxy > [adjective] Greek1564 eastern1572 Greciana1600 Greekish1606 Abassian1679 Anatolian1679 Eastern Orthodox1701 orthodox1716 Anatolic1839 1679 P. Rycaut Present State Greek Church 331 That which they call, The Orthodox Confession of the Anatolian Church.] 1716 M. Davies Athenæ Britannicæ II. 278 Another Orthodox Greek Poet, Chartophylax or Referendary of the great Church of Constantinople. 1772 J. G. King Rites Greek Church in Russia Pref. 18 They are read at the grave to testify to the people that the party died in the true faith of the orthodox church. 1850 J. M. Neale Hist. Holy Eastern Church: Pt. 1 I. 69 An Union has often been proposed between the Armenian and Orthodox Eastern Communions. 1861 A. P. Stanley Lect. Eastern Church (1864) i. 3 By whatever name we call it—‘Eastern’, ‘Greek’, or ‘Orthodox’—it carries us back more than any other existing Christian institution, to the earliest scenes and times of the Christian religion. 1881 E. A. Freeman Hist. Geogr. Europe I. vii. 170 Till a new patriarchate of Moscow arose in Russia, to mark the greatest spiritual conquest of the Orthodox Church. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 12 Feb. 105/3 In Kiev, where he made the acquaintance of the community of Old Believers, who upheld the schism in the Orthodox Church. 1954 M. A. Pei & F. Gaynor Dict. Linguistics 39 It [sc. Church Slavonic] is extinct as a vernacular, but has remained the official language of the Slavic Greek Orthodox Church. 1980 J. Morrison & C. F. Zabusky Amer. Mosaic (1982) i. 105 He is now churchwarden of a Russian Orthodox church in northern Indiana. 2001 Guardian 6 Dec. i. 13/7 Similar artefacts have been traditionally kept as sacred centrepieces in Ethiopian Orthodox churches. < as lemmas |
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