| 单词 | last offices |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslast offices 9. A ceremonial duty or service; a religious or social observance; esp. the rite or rites due to the dead, as the preparation of a corpse for burial, the performance of funeral obsequies, etc. (now chiefly in last offices). ΘΚΠ the world > life > death > obsequies > [noun] officec1300 exequy1382 obsequyc1385 exequy1389 mortuaryc1450 funeral1513 obit1525 funeral honoursa1535 last offices1535 justments1648 pompe funèbre1934 society > morality > duty or obligation > [noun] > a duty or moral necessity > a ceremonial duty office1535 the world > action or operation > behaviour > customary or habitual mode of behaviour > [noun] > a habit or practice > of a formal kind observancea1250 rite?a1475 office1535 ritual1611 1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Chron. xxix. D Golde (gaue he him)..for all maner of vessels of euery offyce. 1582 in Bible (Rheims) John xii. (margin) The deuout offices of balming and anointing the dead bodies. 1618 S. Rowlands Sacred Memorie 37 To show their loue in this last office done To a dead friend. 1662 E. Stillingfleet Origines Sacræ ii. vii. §10 The other great offices wherein their Religion did so much consist, viz. Sacrifices, distinction of meats, observation of Festivals, circumcision, and such like. 1711 J. Addison Spectator No. 135. ¶1 An eminent Person..us'd in his private Offices of Devotion, to give Thanks to Heaven that he was Born a Frenchman. 1822 W. Scott Fortunes of Nigel III. xi. 318 I..will be first to render thee the decent offices due to the dead. 1851 H. Melville Moby-Dick xxviii. 136 If ever Captain Ahab should be tranquilly laid out..then, whoever should do that last office for the dead, would find a birth-mark on him from crown to sole. 1895 T. Hardy Jude vi. xi. 514 A woman who performed the last necessary offices for the poorer dead. 1956 Life 2 Apr. 86/2 We read of..dioceses where the surviving clergy could scarcely perform the last offices for their flocks and for their brethren. 1991 J. Spottiswoode Undertaken with Love 79 Leaving Joy to help Miss Prescott with what are called the last offices (Joy is also a trained nurse) Alan and I went back to the house. < as lemmas |
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