单词 | house of god |
释义 | > as lemmashouse of God 2. A place of worship, originally considered as the abode of God, or a god; a temple; a church. Usually in house of God, the Lord's house, house of prayer, etc.See also God's house n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > sanctuary or holy place > [noun] holinessc897 houseeOE halidomc1000 ZionOE God's houseOE wike-tuna1250 saintuairea1300 sanctuarya1340 holy1382 entry?c1400 the Holy (Saint) Sepulchre (occasionally the Sepulchre)c1400 high placea1425 place of worship?1459 synagogue1490 God-box?1548 shrinea1577 bethela1617 prayer house1657 barn1689 bidental1692 altar1772 praying housea1843 eOE tr. Orosius Hist. (BL Add.) (1980) vi. xiv. 142 Æfter an þunor toslog hiora Capitoliam, þæt hus þe hiora godas inne wæron & hiora diofolgield. OE West Saxon Gospels: Matt. (Corpus Cambr.) xxi. 13 Hyt ys awriten, min hus ys gebedhus [L. Domus mea domus orationis vocabitur]. c1275 (?c1250) Owl & Nightingale (Calig.) (1935) l. 609 (MED) Vor me is lof to cristes huse To clansi hit wiþ fule muse. c1425 Concordance Wycliffite Bible f. 73v (MED) Myn hous shal be clepid an hous of preier. a1500 (c1340) R. Rolle Psalter (Univ. Oxf. 64) (1884) xxii. §9. 85 Þat i won in þe hows of lord [L. in domo Domini] in lenght of dayes. 1585 T. Washington tr. N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie iii. xxi. 110 b The first house of prayer whiche Abraham buylded. 1607 F. Mason Authoritie of Church 24 Wherefore..there might bee a more plentifull prouision in the house of God, our Church hath decreed, [etc.]. a1708 W. Beveridge Thes. Theologicus (1710) II. 291 Where God is pleased to reveal Himself most, is called His house. 1799 R. Southey St. Gualberto in Ballads 23 Then had not Westminster, the house of God, Served for a concert-room. 1811 R. Heber in Christian Observer Oct. 631 O Master! with paternal care Return to this thine house of pray'r. 1887 Cent. Mag. Apr. 901/1 The earliest houses of worship in America belonged to the make-shift order of architecture. 1915 J. Turner Let. 3 May in C. Warren Somewhere in France (2019) 10 I long to be in a town or village where you can at least enter the house of God when you want to. 1998 Sunday News (Lancaster, Pennsylvania) (Nexis) 12 July p3 Not too many years ago one would dress in the finest apparel to enter the Lord's house. 2010 Ottawa Citizen (Nexis) 6 Jan. a5 Since the mosque is a house of worship, police are considering the incident a hate crime. < as lemmas |
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