| 释义 |
> as lemmasmeeting for worship During the 17th cent. in Britain, meeting came to be used spec. of gatherings of Nonconformists or Dissenters, and is now used (also in the fuller form meeting for worship) chiefly of assemblies of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). In North America it is still used more generally of religious services, though this may now be considered somewhat archaic.< |