| 单词 | legend book |
| 释义 | > as lemmaslegend book legend book n. [compare Middle Low German legendenbōk] rare after early 17th cent. a book containing a collection of saints' lives; a legendary; cf. sense 3b.In quot. 1495: (perhaps) a lectionary; = sense 1b. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > other books > [noun] > containing saints' lives legend book1495 1495 in J. G. Nichols & J. Bruce Wills Doctors' Commons (1863) 4 I geve to Sir John More..a legend boke, and a colett boke. 1546 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 1st Pt. f. 33v An holye hermyte ded oft tymes vysyte her, and moche refreshe her with a legende boke of sayntes lyues. 1611 J. Maxwell Mirrour Relig. Men sig. A5, (heading) The chiefe contents of this present Legend-booke. 1857 Gentleman's Mag. July 33 The least thing, perhaps, to excite his surprise would be the sight of Lady Constance's legend book perpetuated in print, and thus proclaiming his own canonization as one of the ecclesiastical annalists of his native or adopted land. 1954 Traditio 10 318 The similarity of procedure strengthens our view that the same legend book, the Golden Legend, was used in all three cases. < as lemmas |
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