| 单词 | houseling people |
| 释义 | > as lemmashouseling people houseling people n. people who regularly receive communion or who are old enough to do so, communicants; cf. communicant n. 1b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > sacrament > communion > [noun] > participant > collectively houseling people1519 1519 in Pleadings Duchy Lancaster (1896) 83 A gret paroch and hath seven thousand howseling peple and moo. 1583 Churchwardens' Accts. St. James' in J. F. Nichols & J. Taylor Bristol Past & Present (1881) II. 37 Paid for tokens to deliver to the howselynge people at Easter, vid. 1781 T. R. Nash Coll. Hist. Worcestershire I. 29 In the..survey the parish of Alvechurch is said to contain of houseling people (i.e. such as were of age to communicate) the number of four hundred. 1829 R. Dobie Hist. United Parishes St. Giles in Fields & St. George Bloomsbury v. 188 1550. Edward VI.'s reign, 305 houseling people. Number of inhabitants doubtful. 1921 Church Q. Rev. 185 371 The Editor..points out..how little trust can be put in the numbers that are returned for the houseling people of each parish. 2001 D. H. Williams Welsh Cistercians vi. 88 At Strata Florida, the local populace—numbering some three hundred houseling people—..had a chapel built for them within the monastery well before the Dissolution. < as lemmas |
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