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单词 arval
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arvalarvelarvilln.

Forms: Also Middle English–1500s arvell, 1600s arvall.
Origin: Apparently a borrowing from early Scandinavian.
Etymology: Apparently adopted < Norse: compare Danish arveöl , Old Norse erfi-öl (Vigfusson), Old Swedish arföl (Ihre), < arf , arv , Old Norse arfr (Old English erfe ) inheritance + öl ale, a banquet: see ale n. 2. Compare also Old Norse erfi a wake, a funeral feast = erfi-öl.
Obsolete exc. dialect.
1. A funeral feast.
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the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] > a funeral > funeral feast or drinking
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soul ale1577
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the world > food and drink > food > meal > feast > [noun] > funeral feast
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1459 MS. Reg. Test. Ebor. IV. 249 b [John Alanson leaues an ox] ‘ad distrib. inter propinquos et amicos meos, scilicet ad meum arvell.’
1588 in W. Greenwell Wills & Inventories Registry Durham (1860) II. 181/2 That secke..which was drouncke at the arvell.
1623 MS. Richmond Wills Carthorpe Her arvall, or funerall dinner.
1702 R. Thoresby Diary 7 May (1830) I. 362 The following Arvill, or treat of cold possets, stewed prunes, cake and cheese, prepared for the company.
1857 E. C. Gaskell Life C. Brontë I. ii. 25 The old custom of ‘arvills’, or funeral feasts.
1880 Yorks. Archæol. Jrnl. 22 290 The arval was held at the little village inn.
2. attributive, as in arval-bread, arval-dinner, etc.
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1567 MS. Durham Registry For his arvell supper.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 139 Arvel-Bread, Silicernium.
1778–80 W. Hutchinson Northumberland II. 20 in J. Brand Pop. Antiq. (Hazl.) II. 193 On the decease of any person possessed of valuable effects, the friends and neighbours of the Family are invited to dinner on the Day of Interment, which is called the Arthel or Arvel-dinner.
1807 F. Douce Illustr. Shakspeare II. 203 (Jam.) In the North this feast is called an arval or arvil-supper; and the loaves that are sometimes distributed among the poor, arval-bread.
1875 F. K. Robinson Gloss. Words Whitby Averill-breead, funeral loaves, spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, sugar, and raisins.
3. ? Arval-bread.
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1568 in J. Raine Wills & Inventories N. Counties Eng. (1835) I. 294 A boxe of arvell xviijd.—Hony ijs.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online March 2021).

arvaladj.

/ˈɑːvəl/
Etymology: < Latin arvālis, < arvum arable land: see -al suffix1.
Of or belonging to ploughed land; esp. in Arval Brethren (= Latin Frātres Arvāles), a college of twelve priests in Ancient Rome, who offered sacrifice to the field-Lares to secure the fertility of the soil.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia The Arval Brothers or Fraternity..were among the old Romans, a sort of Priests, in number twelve, who..were appointed Arbitrators or Judges to decide controversies concerning Landmarks, and bounds of the field.
1838 T. Keightley Mythol. Anc. Greece & Italy (ed. 2) 519 The hymn of the Arval Brethren.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1885; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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