单词 | movable festival |
释义 | movable festivaln. = movable feast n. 1. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > varying in date movable feasta1325 movable festival1694 1694 W. Holder Disc. Time i. 20 The Lunar Month..by which the Moveable Festivals of the Christian Church are regulated. 1852 N. Hawthorne Blithedale Romance viii May-day..had been declared a moveable festival. 1884 Science 26 Dec. 577/1 (heading) Fixed and movable festivals of the Church, 1885. 1923 Man 23 175 It was a moveable festival depending on the tonamalatl and determined by the burner period of Perez. 1982 Amer. Sociol. Rev. 47 288/1 The principal Christian holiday [sc. Easter] remains a ‘movable’ festival vis-a-vis the Gregorian calendar year. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1694 |
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