单词 | minister general |
释义 | > as lemmasminister general a. A person holding authority by virtue of his rank within a Christian religious order or similar organization; esp. (a) one of a body of Franciscan friars with supervisory duties within the order; (b) the second in command of a Jesuit house. Also with defining adjective (now only as postmodifier), as minister general, minister provincial. Now chiefly Roman Catholic Church. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > [noun] ministerc1300 general1560 superior general1775 mandriarch1871 society > faith > church government > monasticism > religious superior > [noun] > Jesuit > assistant adjutant general1667 assistant1679 minister1728 c1300 St. Francis (Laud) 462 in C. Horstmann Early S.-Eng. Legendary (1887) 67 (MED) Frere Austyn, þat was ministre under him i-do..To þe Ioye of heouene wende with is maister, seint Fraunceis. c1400 (?a1387) W. Langland Piers Plowman (Huntington HM 137) (1873) C. vi. 91 (MED) It semeth nouht parfytnesse in cytees for to begge, Bote he be obediencer to pryour oþer to mynstre [v.r. mynystre]. a1402 J. Trevisa tr. R. Fitzralph Defensio Curatorum (Harl.) (1925) 67 (MED) No frere schuld be hardy..to preche to þe peple, but he be examyned & appreued of þe mynistre general. ?c1430 (c1400) Rule St. Francis (Corpus Cambr.) in F. D. Matthew Eng. Wks. Wyclif (1880) 43 Be alle freris holden to haue euermore on of þe freris of þis religion a general mynystre... Whanne he dieþ, þe chesynge of his successour be maad of mynistris prouincial & custodis in þe chapitre of witsontide. 1450 Rolls of Parl. V. 195/2 Nicholas, nowe Maistir or Minister of the ordre of Seynt Gilbert of Sempyngham. 1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) ii. l. 289 Thomas Rimour in-to the Faile [sc. monastery] was than With the mynystir, quhilk was a worthi man. 1543 in D. H. Fleming Registrum Secreti Sigilli Regum Scotorum (1936) III. 38 Freir Robert Cunynghame, minister of Faile and provinciale of the haile Trinite Ordour. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) Minister is also the Title which certain Religious Orders give to their Superior. In this sense we say, the Minister of the Mathurins, or..Trinitarians. Minister, among the Jesuits, is the second Superior..of each house. The General of the Cordeliers Order is also called the Minister General. 1843 A. Dyce in J. Skelton Poet. Wks. I. Introd. 37 Robert Gaguin was minister-general of the Maturines. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 629/1 Minister, among the Franciscans and Capuchins the head of the order is the minister-general. 1911 Catholic Encycl. X. 326/2 In the Society of Jesus the second in command in each house, who is usually charged with the internal discipline, the commissariat, etc., is called minister. 1929 E. C. Messenger tr. J. Guiraud Mediæval Inquisition v. 143 In 1247, a friar with Joachimist tendencies, John of Parma was elected minister general of the Order. 1994 Church Times 25 Nov. 3/1 A..report..claiming that ‘up to a quarter’ of Anglican Franciscans in Britain were considering becoming Roman Catholics has been dismissed by the order's Minister Provincial. < as lemmas |
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