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单词 hand-fastening
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hand-fasteningn.

Brit. /ˈhan(d)ˌfɑːsn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhan(d)ˌfɑːsnɪŋ/, /ˈhan(d)ˌfasn̩ɪŋ/, /ˈhan(d)ˌfasnɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈhæn(d)ˌfæs(ə)nɪŋ/
Forms: Old English hand-fæstnung, Old English hand-fastnung, 1600s 1800s hand-fastning, 1700s– hand-fastening.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: hand n., fastening n.
Etymology: < hand n. + fastening n. Compare Middle Low German hantvesteninge document confirming an agreement or pact, legal document, Old Icelandic handfestning act of striking a bargain by joining hands, Swedish handfästning act of making a solemn promise or pact by shaking hands, also such a promise or pact (1523), Old Danish handfestnyngh act of making a solemn promise or pact by shaking hands (Danish (now hist.) håndfæstning ). Compare also Old High German hantfestīn (kind of) charter. Compare handfasting n.Apparently independently re-formed in the 17th cent.
1. A contract or bond, spec. one ratified by the joining of hands. Obsolete.Only in Old English.In quot. OE1: (apparently) a bond ratified by a person's signature (cf. hand n. 16b).In quots. eOE, OE2 ult. reflecting the etymology of classical Latin mandatum mandate n. as given in Isidore Origines 5. 24. 20.
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eOE Cleopatra Gloss. in W. G. Stryker Lat.-Old Eng. Gloss. in MS Cotton Cleopatra A.III (Ph.D. diss., Stanford Univ.) (1951) 312 Mandatum, handfæstnung.
OE Prudentius Glosses (Corpus Cambr. 223) in H. D. Meritt Old Eng. Glosses (1945) 29/1 [Capta primo uita sub] chirografo : handfæstnunge.
OE Antwerp-London Gloss. (2011) 55 Mandatum, handfastnung. Cirographum, rædinggewrit uel landgewrit.
2. = handfasting n. 1. Obsolete. rare (historical in later use).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > betrothal > [noun]
truthc1300
betrothingc1315
truthingc1350
espousala1393
troth-plighta1393
desponsationa1400
troth-plightingc1400
ensurance1469
fiançailles1477
handfasting1483
assurancea1513
assuring1530
suring1530
contract1551
insurancea1556
trothing1565
despousage1570
betrothment1585
contracting1585
affiancing1596
spousage1596
espousage1599
handfasta1616
desponsories1645
hand-fastening1662
disposories1668
contraction1702
engagement1811
plightage1819
betrothal1844
heart-bond1887
introduction1965
kwanjula1973
1662 W. Pynchon Covenant Nature vi. 187 Faith is the only condition that is required to be performed, as the only hand-fastning Band of this marriage-Union with Christ.
1807 F. Douce Illustr. Shakspeare I. 109 The contract of the affiancing party was called handsaul; (whence our hansel) of the agreeing party, handfastening.
1835 Penny Cycl. IV. 346/2 The northern nations, including the English and the Scotch, called this ceremony [sc. betrothment] by the expressive term, hand-fasting, or hand-fastning.
3. A symbolic binding of hands performed as part of a marriage ceremony, esp. among Parsees. Now also with reference to neopaganism, Wicca, etc. (cf. handfasting n. 2).
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society > society and the community > kinship or relationship > marriage or wedlock > wedding or nuptials > [noun] > manner of marrying > other types of wedding
confarreation1598
farreation1656
coemption1676
Scotch marriage1762
foot washing1780
civil union1837
white wedding1840
hand-fastening1899
Anand Karaj1938
destination wedding1990
1899 Jrnl. Anthropol. Soc. Bombay 5 267 It is the family priests who are entitled to the fee of hand-fastening.
1917 L. O. Hartman Pop. Aspects Oriental Relig. vi. 221 Hand-fastening consists in tying the right hands of the couple together as they sit opposite each other separated only by a curtain.
1980 M. Mallik Introd. Parsee Relig. 96 After the hand-fastening ceremony, one of the two priests, the senior one, blesses the couple.
2008 Daily News (N.Y.) (Nexis) 7 Dec. 24 For the wedding, the Rev. April Gismondi performed a hand-fastening ceremony.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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