| 单词 | house of religion |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouse (also †abbey) of religion P2. house (also †abbey) of religion: a religious house, esp. a monastery or nunnery; (in later use also) a place of worship, as a church, mosque, or synagogue. [After Anglo-Norman maisun de religiun, Old French, Middle French maison de religion (1265).] ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > monastic property (general) > monastery or convent > [noun] minstereOE monklifeeOE clausterc1000 abbotricOE house?a1160 anchor-house?c1225 religion?c1225 abbeyc1300 nunneryc1300 house (also abbey) of religiona1325 nunryc1325 closterc1330 cloister1340 monasterya1425 monk-house?c1475 friars1479 convent1528 guild1546 prioressy1575 abbey-stead1620 minchery1710 reclusory1821 akhara1838 house of piety1838 kloster1844 a1325 St. Thomas Becket (Corpus Cambr.) l. 561 in C. D'Evelyn & A. J. Mill S. Eng. Legendary (1956) 628 (MED) He grantede ek þat a churche of þe kynges fe..ne ssolde iȝiue be As to hous of religion wiþoute þe kynges leue. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 41 (MED) Sacrilege is..huanne me bernþ oþer brekþ cherches..oþer hous of relygioun. c1425 (?a1400) Arthur (Longleat 55) 488 (MED) He buryed Bedewere Hys frend..And so he dude other Echon In Abbeys of Relygyon. ?1449 Petition in Rotuli Parl. (1767–77) V. 157/2 Temporaltees of Bisshuprichez, Abbathiez, Prioriez, and of all othir Housez of Religion. c1536 in J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. (1611) ix. xxi. 773/1 Spoiled in like maner..as the housys of Religion hath bene. 1569 R. Grafton Chron. II. 144 Many houses of relygion within the Citie..were searched for goodes of aliauntes. 1603 G. Downame Treat. conc. Antichrist ii. 27 Vpon them there doe yet remaine, besides some of the Popes palaces and courts, diuers churches and houses of religion and other buildings of note. 1679 Bp. J. Gordon Reformed Bishop ii. 27 Monasteries..might have been still Houses of Religion, without having any dependance upon Rome. 1733 Capt. Downes All Vows Kept iii. ii. 33 I am retir'd into a House of Religion; not vowed, but for Probation. 1819 W. Scott Ivanhoe (1820) III. vi. 139 Albert had received within a house of religion the Jewish captive, and..the paramour of a brother of the Order. 1861 R. C. Jenkins Last Crusader vii. 373 He dismissed accordingly all the brothers that were there,..and formed the house anew into a house of religion. 1910 Eng. Hist. Rev. 25 607 The committee..expects important results from the excavation of early monastic localities... The sites of these ancient houses of religion should be carefully examined. 1993 Toronto Star (Nexis) 31 Dec. a16 Our governments, schools, hospitals and houses of religion are virtually bankrupt. 2008 D. Wilson Out of Storm i. ii. 37 To the nineteen houses of religion already in existence was added the Convent of St Mary Magdalene. < as lemmas |
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