单词 | holy cross |
释义 | Holy crossn. 1. The cross upon which Jesus Christ suffered death (see cross n. 2 and note). Hence in derived senses (cf. 3, 8, and 9). ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > biblical events > [noun] > crucifixion > instruments of crucifixion > the cross roodOE beamOE rood-treeOE treeOE crouchc1000 holy roodOE crossc1275 Holy crossc1290 gibbetc1450 cross patif1543 c1290 S. Eng. Leg. I. 3/78 Huy founden roden þreo..Þo nusten huy of þe þreo þo holie croyz þat huy souȝten ȝwich it miȝte beo. c1380 J. Wyclif Wks. (1880) 45 By þyn holy crois þu hast aȝen bouȝt þe world. a1400 Coer de L. 1304 Thus, thorwgh tresoun of the Eerl Joys, Surry was lorn and the holy croys. 1470–85 T. Malory Morte d'Arthur xvii. x Thenne he took her by the brydel and sayd, by the holy crosse ye shalle not escape me. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Publyke Baptisme f. ii* Receyue the signe of the holy Crosse. 1583 C. Hollyband Campo di Fior 51 Blesse thee with the signe of the holie crosse. 1825 W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) I. 1291 A Romish catholic festival in honour of the holy cross, or, as our ancestors called it, the holy rood. 2. In the titles of certain religious societies or communities. ΚΠ 1426 in Eng. Gilds (1870) 246 (note) Willielmus Rydware, magister Gilde sancte Crucis de Bermyngeham.] 1547 Rep. Commissioners in Eng. Gilds (1870) 248 The guilde of tholye Crosse in brymyncham. 1872 O. Shipley Gloss. Eccl. Terms Holy Cross, an order of Augustinian canons, suppressed in the 17th cent. 1884 Cassell's Encycl. Dict. IV. i Holy-cross, a society consisting of clerical members of the ritualistic school of the English Church. It was founded in 1855. Compounds Holy Cross day n. the festival of the Exaltation of the Cross, September 14th. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > specific Christian festivals > Exaltation of Cross (14 September) > [noun] Holy Rood daya1225 Exaltation of the Cross1389 holy rooda1425 Rood Day1496 Roodmas1526 Roodsmas1622 Holy Cross day1662 rood1814 1662 Bk. Com. Prayer, Cal. Holy Cross Day. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant i. 232 And the four and twentieth, which is Holy-Cross-Day, according to the Calender of the Greeks. 1883 R. Sinker in Prayer Bk. Comment. (S.P.C.K) 34 ‘Holy Cross Day’ in our Calendar, or, more strictly speaking, the ‘Exaltation of the Cross’ probably celebrates primarily the consecration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre at Jerusalem in 335 a.d.; but its renown is specially due to the victory of Heraclius over the Persians and his restoration of the Cross to its shrine at Jerusalem. holy cross toad n. a frog of New South Wales, Notaden bennettii, so called from a dark cross-shaped marking on the back. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > amphibians > order Anura or Salienta (frogs and toads) > [noun] > types of frog or toad > suborder Procoela > family Leptodactylidae > member of genus Notaden (holy cross) holy cross toad1891 1891 J. H. Rose in Proc. Linn. Soc. New S. Wales 2nd Ser. VI. 265 Notaden bennetti, the Catholic frog, or as I have heard it called the ‘Holy Cross toad’. 1969 M. Burton Animals of Australia xiv. 120 The holy cross toad is unusual among Australian amphibians in that it comes out during the day to feed. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). > as lemmasholy Cross The identical cross is believed by large bodies of Christians to have been found buried in the ground, by Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, in 326; hence, the legend of its finding or invention, the adoration of the fragments of it, and stories of miracles wrought by it, play an important part in the religious literature of the Middle Ages. In this connection the word is often qualified as holy Cross, real Cross, true Cross, Saint Cross. Stations, way of the Cross: see station n., way n.1 and int.1 The antecedent history of this sense in English is found under the earlier name rood n.extracted from crossn.< n.c1290 as lemmas |
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