单词 | metropolitical |
释义 | metropoliticaladj. 1. Christian Church. Of, belonging to, or designating a metropolitan see or bishop; = metropolitan n. 1. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > clerical superior > metropolitan > [adjective] metropolitan1452 metropolitical1541 metropolical1551 metropolitica1555 metropolic1747 1541 Act 33 Hen. VIII c. 31 The..diocese..to be of the prouince of the Archebyshoppe of Caunturburie, and vnder the iurisdiction metropolitical of the same. 1621 R. Montagu Diatribæ Hist. Tithes 58 The new made Patriarch of Constantinople, sometime but a Suffragane to the Metropoliticall Sea of Heraclea. 1655 J. Owen Vindic. Evangelicæ Ep. Ded. Affirming, that that Heresy hath fixed its Metropolitical seat here in England. 1715 H. Wanley Let. June (1989) 314 To be sure such a Book may be met with, in the Patriarchal Library at Antioch,..or Churches of the Greeks, Metropolitical, Episcopal, or Monastical. 1765 Act 5 Geo. III c. 26 Preamble The Bishoprick..[was] united to the Prouince and Metropolitical Iurisdiction of York. 1819 H. Hallam View Europe Middle Ages (ed. 2) II. 226 None of the ten provinces forming this division had any metropolitan; so that the popes exercised all metropolitical functions. 1869 Amer. Year-bk. & National Reg. 615 The Patriarchate of Alexandria: 4 Metropolitical Sees. 1901 Standard 9 Sept. 3/6 Preaching in York minster yesterday, Canon Fleming said:—Speaking to-day in this metropolitical Church [etc.]. 1994 Chichester Leaflet Jan. 2/2 The archbishop shall act either at the request of the diocesan bishop concerned or in pursuit of his metropolitical jurisdiction. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > district in relation to human occupation > town as opposed to country > town or city > [adjective] > chief town or capital city capital1439 metropolitan1555 metropolic?1575 metropolite1591 metropolitical1595 Metro1957 1595 A. Hartwell tr. G. T. Minadoi Hist. Warres Turkes & Persians sig. HHh1 v (table) Caraemit..is now the Metropoliticall Citie of the Mesopotamians. 1603 R. Knolles Gen. Hist. Turkes 2 The metropoliticall citie of Riga. 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 90 The River of Thames..will I trust in God for ever keep her in her Metropolitical station. 1710 J. Strype Hist. E. Grindal i. vii. 70 They..proceeded as far as the Metropolitical City. 1726 J. Ayliffe Parergon Juris Canonici Anglicani 91 A Metropolis or Metropolitical City is in respect to a Colony, what a Mother is to a Daughter. 1831 J. Borden Life Mrs. Jordan i. 38 Not that Stevens was at all sullen to the claims of our metropolitical city upon Shakespeare. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1541 |
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