auto-da-fén.

Brit.

/ˌɔːtə(ʊ)dəˈfeɪ/, U.S.

/ˌɔdədəˈfeɪ/,

/ˌɔˌtoʊdəˈfeɪ/,

/ˌɑdədəˈfeɪ/,

/ˌɑˌtoʊdəˈfeɪ/

Inflections: Plural autos-da-fé, auto-da-fés.

Forms:

α. 1600s– auto-da-fe, 1700s– auto-da-fé, 1800s auto-da-fè.

β. 1700s– auto-de-fe, 1700s– auto-de-fé.

γ. 1900s– auto de fa (irregular).

Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Partly also a borrowing from French. Etymons: Portuguese auto-da-fé; French auto-da-fé.

Etymology: < Portuguese †auto-da-fé (now auto-de-fé ) religious ceremony held by the Inquisition prior to the punishment of prisoners, also execution of a sentence of the Inquisition esp. by public burning of the condemned person (1544 as auto da fee ; < auto public ceremony, judicial decree, writ (see auto n.¹) + da of the + fé faith n., probably after Spanish auto-de-fe : see below), originally via French auto-da-fé (1686 in the passage translated in quot. 1688 at sense 1a). In β. forms after Spanish auto-de-fe, in same senses (1516; < auto legal proceedings, judicial decree, writ (see auto n.¹) + de of + fe faith n.). Compare earlier auto n.¹ and later act n. 8.With the extended use in sense 2a, compare Portuguese fazer um auto-de-fé de (1939 or earlier), Spanish hacer auto-de-fe de (1848 or earlier), both in sense ‘to burn (something)’). In plural form autos-da-fé after the Portuguese plural form.

a. A religious ceremony demonstrating commitment to Catholicism held by the Spanish or Portuguese Inquisition prior to the punishment of prisoners, such as blasphemers, bigamists, and witches, as well as heretics. historical in later use.In the most serious cases the punishments extended to burning at the stake. The first recorded auto-da-fé was held in Seville in 1481. The sense is sometimes difficult to distinguish from the execution itself (sense 1b).

ΚΠ

1688 H. Wharton tr. G. Dellon Hist. Inquisition Goa xxiii. 41 The Auto dafe [Fr. l'Auto da fé], or Act of Faith was ordinarily performed the first Sunday in Advent.

1694 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury Aug. 265 The Tribunal of the Inquisition in Lisbon caus'd an Auto da Fe to be put in Execution the 16th. of May last.

1723 London Gaz. No. 6207/1 There will be an Auto da Fé in the Church of the Monastery of St. Dominick [in Lisbon].

1788 L. MacNally Critic upon Critic (ed. 2) iii. i. 66 You'd be the very picture of an inquisitor going to pronounce judgment on a heretic at an auto de fe.

1817 Ld. Byron Donna Josepha in Lett. & Jrnl. (1830) II. 523 Little less than an auto-da-fé was anticipated.

1874 P. Lacroix Mil. & Relig. Life Middle Ages 438 At another great Auto-da-fé,..out of nine hundred repentant or condemned persons none underwent the extreme penalty.

1907 Mrs. P. Gibbs tr. A. Baudrillart Catholic Church, Renaissance & Protestantism vii. 197 Popular language has confused the auto da fé with the punishments that followed.

1992 J. Faur In Shadow of Hist. vii. 121 She was also condemned to march in the auto-da-fé taking place on November 28 and 29, where her sentence was read.

b. The execution of a sentence of the Inquisition; esp. the public burning of a heretic. historical in later use.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > conclusion > of the Inquisition

auto-da-fé1697

society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > for heresy

faggot?a1425

fire and faggot (also faggots)1528

faggoting1545

Bonnering1613

auto-da-fé1697

society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > search for heresy > [noun] > burning

auto1563

heretic-burning1570

act of faith1600

Bonnering1613

auto-da-fé1697

act1709

1697 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury Feb. 87 They seiz'd her,..put her in Irons, and in the next Auto da Fe, led her in Procession, and then burnt her.

1715 in M. Geddes Several Tracts against Popery Publisher's Pref. p. xvi At Lisbon he was present at an Auto de Fé, or a Jayl-Delivery of the Prisoners of the Inquisition, where he saw..Men cruelly burnt.

1772 J. W. Fletcher Third Check Antinom. 21 Papists..call..their burning of those whom they call Heretics an auto de fe.

1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 333 The Inquisition, with its horrible autos-da-fé.

1887 A. J. C. Hare Paris iii. 228 The auto-de-fé of Jacques de Povanes,..torn to pieces by four horses in the presence of the king and queens.

1910 T. A. Janvier Legends City of Mexico 73 Don Gil never was seen,..so..when the time came for burning him at the auto da fé, he had to be burned in effigy.

1999 R. Maxwell Queen's Bastard xliv. 362 The details and convolutions that a mind's imagination could invent in order to keep its body from the flames of the Auto da Fé.

2. figurative.

a. A public humiliation, condemnation, or punishment, esp. by a mob.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > punishment > [noun]

justice?a1160

penancec1300

defensiona1382

forfeiture1390

punishment1402

revengementa1513

penition1547

revenge1561

infliction1590

supplice1646

vindictive1726

auto-da-fé1767

woodshedding1940

knuckle-rapping1944

1767 T. Townson Doubts conc. Authenticity Confessional 10 If the other can be apprehended,..he will deserve the utmost severity of your pen at its next Auto da fe.

1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 24 They would certainly have consummated their auto da fé by hanging him up in terrour to all future philosophers.

1862 All Year Round 23 Feb. 510/2 The mad-doctors have been making an auto-da-fé of themselves in connexion with the shameful scandal of a Commission of Lunacy.

1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 165 Nor did Sir Thomas approve of the man's name, but insisted on calling him ‘Mr Masquerader’, and every time he did so, all his people shouted. Evidently this was their established auto-da-fé.

1966 Listener 22 Sept. 426/3 The final auto-da-fé sequence, in which the hunting down of the convict on a used car lot is chillingly depicted.

1999 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 19 Jan. a7/7 Our sexual auto-da-fé, in which every revelation about a politician's private life becomes ammunition in the sulfurous partisan wars.

b. An act of destroying something (esp. a piece of art or writing) by burning; spec. a burning of material considered offensive, subversive, or heretical.

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > by fire, etc.

auto-da-fé1790

burn-out1903

1790 London Chron. 13 Feb. The inhabitants of Bruxelles have ventured to burn the Emperor's manifest on the Grand Place... Mr. Vandernoot with his guards ran to the place where the populace were celebrating this auto-da-fe.

1794 tr. in Proc. National Convent. Paris 11 I will soon lay upon the table my letters of ordination, of which I hope you will have the kindness to make an Auto da Fé.

1837 R. Southey Poet. Wks. II. Pref. p. xiv A small part only of my youthful effusions were spared from those autos-da-fe in which from time to time piles upon piles have been consumed.

1881 T. W. T. Jones Let. 4 Mar. in Christian World Mag. May 131 An infuriated mob, stirred up by the priests, has attacked the locale where we have service, and tried to make an auto-da-fe of the building.

a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 175 Help! Help! they want to burn my pictures, They want to make an auto da fe!

1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 15 I recalled seeing him..burning a whole stack of them [sc. discarded drafts] in the pale fire of the incinerator before which he stood..among the wind-borne black butterflies of that backyard auto-da-fé.

1997 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Mar. 12 Bible-burning puts a cloud over religious freedom... One of the ringleaders..was unrepentant about presiding over an auto-da-fe of what he called Baptist propaganda.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	auto-da-fé
释义	auto-da-fén. Brit. /ˌɔːtə(ʊ)dəˈfeɪ/, U.S. /ˌɔdədəˈfeɪ/, /ˌɔˌtoʊdəˈfeɪ/, /ˌɑdədəˈfeɪ/, /ˌɑˌtoʊdəˈfeɪ/ Inflections: Plural autos-da-fé, auto-da-fés. Forms: α. 1600s– auto-da-fe, 1700s– auto-da-fé, 1800s auto-da-fè. β. 1700s– auto-de-fe, 1700s– auto-de-fé. γ. 1900s– auto de fa (irregular). Origin: A borrowing from Portuguese. Partly also a borrowing from French. Etymons: Portuguese auto-da-fé; French auto-da-fé. Etymology: < Portuguese †auto-da-fé (now auto-de-fé ) religious ceremony held by the Inquisition prior to the punishment of prisoners, also execution of a sentence of the Inquisition esp. by public burning of the condemned person (1544 as auto da fee ; < auto public ceremony, judicial decree, writ (see auto n.¹) + da of the + fé faith n., probably after Spanish auto-de-fe : see below), originally via French auto-da-fé (1686 in the passage translated in quot. 1688 at sense 1a). In β. forms after Spanish auto-de-fe, in same senses (1516; < auto legal proceedings, judicial decree, writ (see auto n.¹) + de of + fe faith n.). Compare earlier auto n.¹ and later act n. 8.With the extended use in sense 2a, compare Portuguese fazer um auto-de-fé de (1939 or earlier), Spanish hacer auto-de-fe de (1848 or earlier), both in sense ‘to burn (something)’). In plural form autos-da-fé after the Portuguese plural form. 1. a. A religious ceremony demonstrating commitment to Catholicism held by the Spanish or Portuguese Inquisition prior to the punishment of prisoners, such as blasphemers, bigamists, and witches, as well as heretics. historical in later use.In the most serious cases the punishments extended to burning at the stake. The first recorded auto-da-fé was held in Seville in 1481. The sense is sometimes difficult to distinguish from the execution itself (sense 1b). ΚΠ 1688 H. Wharton tr. G. Dellon Hist. Inquisition Goa xxiii. 41 The Auto dafe [Fr. l'Auto da fé], or Act of Faith was ordinarily performed the first Sunday in Advent. 1694 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury Aug. 265 The Tribunal of the Inquisition in Lisbon caus'd an Auto da Fe to be put in Execution the 16th. of May last. 1723 London Gaz. No. 6207/1 There will be an Auto da Fé in the Church of the Monastery of St. Dominick [in Lisbon]. 1788 L. MacNally Critic upon Critic (ed. 2) iii. i. 66 You'd be the very picture of an inquisitor going to pronounce judgment on a heretic at an auto de fe. 1817 Ld. Byron Donna Josepha in Lett. & Jrnl. (1830) II. 523 Little less than an auto-da-fé was anticipated. 1874 P. Lacroix Mil. & Relig. Life Middle Ages 438 At another great Auto-da-fé,..out of nine hundred repentant or condemned persons none underwent the extreme penalty. 1907 Mrs. P. Gibbs tr. A. Baudrillart Catholic Church, Renaissance & Protestantism vii. 197 Popular language has confused the auto da fé with the punishments that followed. 1992 J. Faur In Shadow of Hist. vii. 121 She was also condemned to march in the auto-da-fé taking place on November 28 and 29, where her sentence was read. b. The execution of a sentence of the Inquisition; esp. the public burning of a heretic. historical in later use. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > judgement or decision > [noun] > conclusion > of the Inquisition auto-da-fé1697 society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > [noun] > burning > for heresy faggot?a1425 fire and faggot (also faggots)1528 faggoting1545 Bonnering1613 auto-da-fé1697 society > faith > aspects of faith > heresy > search for heresy > [noun] > burning auto1563 heretic-burning1570 act of faith1600 Bonnering1613 auto-da-fé1697 act1709 1697 Hist. & Polit. Monthly Mercury Feb. 87 They seiz'd her,..put her in Irons, and in the next Auto da Fe, led her in Procession, and then burnt her. 1715 in M. Geddes Several Tracts against Popery Publisher's Pref. p. xvi At Lisbon he was present at an Auto de Fé, or a Jayl-Delivery of the Prisoners of the Inquisition, where he saw..Men cruelly burnt. 1772 J. W. Fletcher Third Check Antinom. 21 Papists..call..their burning of those whom they call Heretics an auto de fe. 1839 T. Keightley Hist. Eng. (new ed.) I. 333 The Inquisition, with its horrible autos-da-fé. 1887 A. J. C. Hare Paris iii. 228 The auto-de-fé of Jacques de Povanes,..torn to pieces by four horses in the presence of the king and queens. 1910 T. A. Janvier Legends City of Mexico 73 Don Gil never was seen,..so..when the time came for burning him at the auto da fé, he had to be burned in effigy. 1999 R. Maxwell Queen's Bastard xliv. 362 The details and convolutions that a mind's imagination could invent in order to keep its body from the flames of the Auto da Fé. 2. figurative. a. A public humiliation, condemnation, or punishment, esp. by a mob. ΘΚΠ society > authority > punishment > [noun] justice?a1160 penancec1300 defensiona1382 forfeiture1390 punishment1402 revengementa1513 penition1547 revenge1561 infliction1590 supplice1646 vindictive1726 auto-da-fé1767 woodshedding1940 knuckle-rapping1944 1767 T. Townson Doubts conc. Authenticity Confessional 10 If the other can be apprehended,..he will deserve the utmost severity of your pen at its next Auto da fe. 1792 B. Boothby Observ. Appeal from New to Old Whigs 24 They would certainly have consummated their auto da fé by hanging him up in terrour to all future philosophers. 1862 All Year Round 23 Feb. 510/2 The mad-doctors have been making an auto-da-fé of themselves in connexion with the shameful scandal of a Commission of Lunacy. 1917 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures 165 Nor did Sir Thomas approve of the man's name, but insisted on calling him ‘Mr Masquerader’, and every time he did so, all his people shouted. Evidently this was their established auto-da-fé. 1966 Listener 22 Sept. 426/3 The final auto-da-fé sequence, in which the hunting down of the convict on a used car lot is chillingly depicted. 1999 Courier-Jrnl. (Louisville, Kentucky) 19 Jan. a7/7 Our sexual auto-da-fé, in which every revelation about a politician's private life becomes ammunition in the sulfurous partisan wars. b. An act of destroying something (esp. a piece of art or writing) by burning; spec. a burning of material considered offensive, subversive, or heretical. ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > [noun] > by fire, etc. auto-da-fé1790 burn-out1903 1790 London Chron. 13 Feb. The inhabitants of Bruxelles have ventured to burn the Emperor's manifest on the Grand Place... Mr. Vandernoot with his guards ran to the place where the populace were celebrating this auto-da-fe. 1794 tr. in Proc. National Convent. Paris 11 I will soon lay upon the table my letters of ordination, of which I hope you will have the kindness to make an Auto da Fé. 1837 R. Southey Poet. Wks. II. Pref. p. xiv A small part only of my youthful effusions were spared from those autos-da-fe in which from time to time piles upon piles have been consumed. 1881 T. W. T. Jones Let. 4 Mar. in Christian World Mag. May 131 An infuriated mob, stirred up by the priests, has attacked the locale where we have service, and tried to make an auto-da-fe of the building. a1930 D. H. Lawrence Last Poems (1932) 175 Help! Help! they want to burn my pictures, They want to make an auto da fe! 1962 V. Nabokov Pale Fire 15 I recalled seeing him..burning a whole stack of them [sc. discarded drafts] in the pale fire of the incinerator before which he stood..among the wind-borne black butterflies of that backyard auto-da-fé. 1997 Daily Tel. (Nexis) 3 Mar. 12 Bible-burning puts a cloud over religious freedom... One of the ringleaders..was unrepentant about presiding over an auto-da-fe of what he called Baptist propaganda. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.1688
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