单词 | idiorhythmic |
释义 | > as lemmasidiorhythmic idiorhythmic adj. and n. Brit. /ˌɪdɪə(ʊ)ˈrɪðmɪk/ , U.S. /ˌɪdiəˈrɪðmɪk/ (also idiorrhythmic) [after Byzantine Greek ἰδιόρρυθμος; compare earlier cœnobitic adj.] (a) adj.(originally and chiefly of monastic institutions) allowing freedom to the individual (opposed to cœnobitic adj.); (b) n. a member of an idiorhythmic institution.ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > monk > [adjective] > self-ruling idiorhythmic1862 society > faith > church government > monasticism > monk > [noun] > self-ruling Sarabaite1517 idiorhythmic1934 1862 London Rev. & Weekly Jrnl. 17 May They live..in regular monasteries, either of the stricter cœnobitic form..or under the laxer idiorrythmic constitution. 1934 Downside Rev. 52 483 But Mount Athos in 1928 still had nearly 5,000 monks, including the ‘idiorrhythmics’ with their very special kind of life. 1960 D. Athill tr. J. Valentin Monks of Mt. Athos 45 But the idiorhythmics keep their property? Indeed they do, and they have to look after it as well as possible because on their death everything they own goes to the monastery. 1968 W. H. Auden in New Yorker 27 Apr. 43/1 The weekend comes that once was holy, Free still but a feast no longer, Just time out, idiorrythmic [sic], when no one cares what his neighbor does. 1997 Church Hist. 66 562 She describes..the eventual Byzantine invention of the so-called hybrid community, a mixture of the eremitic, the idiorhythmic, and the cenobitic under a basic lavriote pattern. < as lemmas |
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