单词 | mass-priest |
释义 | mass-priestn. A priest, esp. as celebrant of the Mass. (In quot. c1350 figurative)In Old English applied to priests of the Christian and Jewish traditions. Since the Reformation used chiefly with specific (and often contemptuous) reference to Roman Catholic priests. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > celebrating mass mass-priesteOE masserOE priestOE rood priest1516 massing priest1554 missara1560 sacrificer1563 Christ-maker1571 sacrificule1604 conficient1614 celebrant1624 missalian1624 missalist1624 waiter at the altar1648 altar-thegn1720 president1945 eOE (Kentish) Will of Æðelnoð & Gænburg (Sawyer 1500) in A. J. Robertson Anglo-Saxon Charters (1956) 4 Æðelnoð se gerefa to Eastorege & Gænburg his wif aræddan hiora erfe beforan Wulfrede arcebiscope & Æðelhune his mæsseprioste. OE Ælfric Catholic Homilies: 1st Ser. (Cambr. Gg.3.28) Pref. 174 Ic Ælfric munuc & mæssepreost. OE tr. Gospel of Nicodemus (Cambr.) iv. §2. 161 Pilatus hym wæs þa to gecigende þa ealdras and þa mæssepreostas and þa diaconas [L. seniores et sacerdotes et Leuitas]. a1200 MS Trin. Cambr. in R. Morris Old Eng. Homilies (1873) 2nd Ser. 23 Þanne he his muchele synnes mid alle forleteð..and sheweð hem his messe preste. c1350 (a1333) William of Shoreham Poems (1902) 54 Þat inwyt hys þe masse prest, Þat ine þe herte slakeþ Þane auter of devocion Wane may nys bene makeþ. c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2108 Be hit chorle oþer chaplayn þat bi þe chapel rydes, Monk oþer masseprest. a1555 J. Bradford in M. Coverdale Certain Lett. Martyrs (1564) 347 God is no merchaunte, as our Masse priestes be. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. iii. 92 Among the foure Friars, there was but one Masse-Priest. 1686 J. Evelyn Diary (1955) IV. 518 The late Kings glorious Chapell [at Windsor], now seiz'd on by the Masse-priests. a1722 J. Toland Coll. Several Pieces (1726) II. 198 A small crumb of bread is transform'd into the body of Christ by four words of a Mass-priest. 1766 T. Amory Life John Buncle II. iv. 124 To these truths, (not to be found in the religion of our travelling mass-priest) did the great, the glorious English reformers call mankind. 1865 A. C. Swinburne Chastelard ii. i. 56 They cried, ‘This devil's mass-priest hankers for new flesh like a dry hound.’ 1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. xiv. [Oxen of the Sun] 368 She said that he had a fair sweet death through God His goodness with masspriest to be shriven, holy housel and sick men's oil to his limbs. 1997 Church Times 7 Nov. 9/3 For most Sundays, a mass priest would be very welcome. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.eOE |
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