| 单词 | judas light |
| 释义 | > as lemmasJudas light Judas light n. now historical and rare = Judas candle n.; (also) = sense 1b. ΚΠ 1502 Will of John Auger in Virginia Mag. Hist. & Biogr. (1920) 28 289 I bequeath a wedre [wether] sheepe of iii yer age to fynde Judas light. 1557 in Archaeologia (1851) 34 54 Paid for xvjli. of newe waxe for the pascall and for the tapers about the sepulchre, and the rood lofte with the 4 tapers, and Judas lighte at xijd. 1559 in V. M. Howse Stanford-in-the-Vale Churchwardens' Accts. 1552–1725 (1987) 34 It. for Tymber & the makyng of the crosse th[a]t beryth the Tenebre lyght oth[er] wyze cawlyd the Judas light xviijd. 1868 M. E. C. Walcott Sacred Archæol. 335 Judas light or Judas of the paschal, a wooden imitation of the candle which held the real paschal in the seventh branch. 1901 R. Cornish Kilmington Church Wardens' Accts. 11 A Judas light seems to have been the wooden dummy that bore the central candle of the Paschal Tapers. < as lemmas |
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