单词 | hortus conclusus |
释义 | hortus conclususn. a. An enclosed, inviolate garden; in spiritual and exegetical tradition, the symbol of the soul, the Church, or the virginity of Mary. Frequently transferred. ΘΚΠ society > faith > aspects of faith > religion > a religion or church > [noun] churcheOE kirkc1175 spousea1200 lawa1225 lorea1225 religionc1325 faithc1384 sectc1386 seta1387 leara1400 hirselc1480 professiona1513 congregation1526 communion1553 schism1555 segregation1563 sex1583 hortus conclususa1631 confessiona1641 dispensation1643 sectary1651 churchship1675 cult1679 persuasion1732 denomination1746–7 connection1753 covenant1818 sectarism1821 organized religion1843 a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) VI. 227 The University is a Paradise, Rivers of knowledge are there, Arts and Sciences flow from thence. Counsell Tables are Horti conclusi, (as it is said in the Canticles) Gardens that are walled in. 1940 ‘M. Innes’ There came both Mist & Snow i. 7 I shall get more surely on the rails if I drop ancestry and the hortus conclusus of history and begin again with some account of the Priory itself. 1947 ‘N. Blake’ Minute for Murder ix. 208 People that would trample over her little hortus conclusus. 1956 M. Swan Paradise Garden xvii. 161 The protective hedges of his hortus conclusus were rotten and useless with disease. 1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. 152 The symbol of the body of the Virgin as a hortus conclusus. 1963 Listener 21 Mar. 520/2 Nepal has long been the hortus conclusus of the fabulous Ranas. b. In Art, a painting of the Madonna and Child in an enclosed garden. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > painting and drawing > painting > painting according to subject > [noun] > religious painting > picture by subject majestyc1450 the Visitation (of our Lady)1498 Our Lady Piety1533 annunciation1556 nativity1646 Pietàc1660 noli me tangerea1684 virgina1684 glory1708 flagellation1728 scourging1757 Mater Dolorosa1800 crucifixion1841 hortus conclusus1852 Hodegetria1880 Gethsemane1901 anastasis1995 1852 A. Jameson Legends Madonna p. xlviii The Enclosed Garden (Hortus conclusus)... I have seen this enclosed garden very significantly placed in the background of the Annunciation, and in pictures of the Immaculate Conception. Sometimes the enclosure is formed of a treillage or hedge of roses, as in a beautiful Virgin by Francia. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < n.a1631 |
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