单词 | nocturn |
释义 | nocturnn. Christian Church. 1. Roman Catholic Church. A group of prayers and readings including three psalms, usually forming each of three divisions of the former office of matins. Also occasionally in plural: a night office, esp. matins. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > canonical hours > matins > [noun] > division of nocturnOE orb1526 nocturnal1670 OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) xxxiv. 66 Sex noctu[r]næ posterioris psalmi : syx nocternes þæs æftran sealmas. OE Regularis Concordia (Tiber.) (1993) lx. 125 Finitis duobus psalmis, qui post nocturnas dicuntur : geendedum twam sealmum þa æfter nocternum beoþ gecwedene. a1400 Prymer (St. John's Cambr.) (1891) 83 Here bygynneth þe þridde nocturne. c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 111 (MED) Þe nocturns, matyns, and laudys wonderly endyd. c1450 (?c1425) St. Elizabeth of Spalbeck in Anglia (1885) 8 109 Þe firste nocturne of matyns. 1482 Monk of Evesham 34 The next night after when y was at matens aboute the begynnyng of the thirde nocturne. 1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection iii. sig. SSSiiiv In matynes commonly be .iii. orbes, other wyse called .iii. nocturnes, of the whiche, euery orbe conteyneth .iii. psalmes .iii. lessons, & .iii. responsoryes. 1671 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa i. xxxi. 222 Being at that time in Oratory, and having recited the Nocturn, and saying those very devout prayers which are at the end thereof. 1706 in D. Cotes tr. L. E. Dupin New Eccl. Hist. (1725) II. v. 43 He says..that the Name Mattins is very improperly given to the Night-Office..; that the Night-Office is divided into three Nocturns, which are said at three different times. 1737 R. Challoner Catholick Christian Instructed xxii. 211 On Festivals and Saints Days we read nine Psalms and nine Lessons divided into three Nocturns. 1840 R. Browning Sordello iv. 969 Some brother spoke, Ere nocturns, of Crescentius. 1884 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. 101/2 The lections of the second nocturn which contain the history of the Saints. 1896 H. B. Swete Church Services 39 The night services consisted of Nocturns, Mattins and Lauds; at daybreak came the supplementary Mattins. 1972 J. G. Davies Dict. Liturgy & Worship 115/2 In winter... 2.00 a.m. rise for nocturns (the modern mattins). 1980 New Grove Dict. Music XIII. 259/2 Before the 1971 simplification of the Roman Breviary, the night office of Matins (or Vigils) was composed of three nocturns for double or semi-double feasts, and one nocturn for simple feasts or ferias. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > church music > psalm > [noun] > collectively > selection of psaltereOE nocturn?c1225 society > faith > aspects of faith > Bible, Scripture > Testament > Old Testament > divisions of Old Testament > [noun] > Psalms > part of nocturn?c1225 spell1579 versicle1606 ?c1225 (?a1200) Ancrene Riwle (Cleo. C.vi) (1972) 197 Hwenne þu hauest longe iwaked & schuldest gan toslepen..Sei ȝet anocturne. 1443 in A. T. Bannister Reg. Thome Spofford (1919) 254 (MED) Every person that shal say a masse or a nocturne of the sauter. 1483 W. Caxton tr. J. de Voragine Golden Legende 435/1 He begynneth and saith a psalme that is in the thyrd nocturne of the psaulter. 1525 Ld. Berners tr. J. Froissart Cronycles II. xxvi. 30/1 He sayd many orisons, euery daye a nocturne of the psalter, matyns of our lady. 1546 T. Langley tr. P. Vergil Abridgem. Notable Worke vi. ii. 114 The diuision of Dauids Psalter into vii partes called noctournes according to the seuen daies in the weke was the worke of Hierome. 1549 Bk. Common Prayer (STC 16267) Pref. sig. ❧.i The auncient fathers had deuided the psalmes into seuen porcions: whereof euery one was called a nocturne. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). nocturnadj. Now rare. Nocturnal. ΘΚΠ the world > time > day and night > night > [adjective] nightlyeOE nightyc1475 nocturnal1485 noxiala1500 nightish1530 nocturn?1530 nighterly1559 owlish1596 night-tripping1598 epinyctal1600 nighted?1606 nightern1615 noctual1632 nocturnous1727 overnight1870 nitely1970 ?1530 R. Bacon Bk. Beste Waters Artifycyalles sig. Ciiiiv This water..taketh away the polucions noctournes, and is good for the coughe. c1550 Clariodus (1830) i. 775 The sune..in his nocturne mantill did cheroude. 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 329 We may nocht in this vale of bale abyd, Ourdirkit with the sable clud nocturn. c1586 J. Stewart Poems (1913) 43 As the nocturne beams quhilk dois appeir But rest ay reilling throch the glansing sky. 1636 R. Basset tr. G. A. de Paoli Lives Rom. Emperors 214 Vesuvius..covered the face of Italy..with nocturne darknesse in the day. 1677 T. Gale Court of Gentiles: Pt. III iii. 78 A cloudy, dark, nocturne Philosophie. 1762 St. James's Mag. 1 133 What would be this nocturn sprite. 1876 H. Melville Clarel II. iv. xxix. 551 Some yet would tarry, to behold The initiatory nocturn rite. 1902 H. E. H. King Hours of Passion 33 Under the enrapturing skies Auroral and nocturn, the halcyon Earth Lay brooding. 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