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单词 nocturn
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nocturnn.

Brit. /ˈnɒktəːn/, /ˌnɒkˈtəːn/, U.S. /ˈnɑktərn/
Forms: late Old English noctern, Middle English–1500s nocturne, Middle English– nocturn, 1500s noctourne; also Scottish pre-1700 nocturne, pre-1700 notturne.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Partly a borrowing from French. Etymons: Latin nocturna; French nocturne.
Etymology: In Old English < post-classical Latin nocturna divine office at night (9th cent.; also nocturni, masculine plural, 6th cent.), use as noun of feminine singular of classical Latin nocturnus nocturn adj.; in Middle English reborrowed < post-classical Latin nocturna and its reflex Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French nocturne each of three divisions of the former office of matins (mid 13th cent.; French nocturne ). Compare Italian notturno (a1306). Compare nocturne n.Compare the rare late Old English weak variant nocturna in sense 1 (one isolated attestation also in the Tiberius manuscript of Regularis Concordia). In Old English ūhtsang is also used in sense 1 (see uht-song n.).
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.
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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.
2. Each of seven divisions of the psalter. Obsolete.
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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.

Brit. /ˈnɒktəːn/, /ˌnɒkˈtəːn/, U.S. /ˈnɑktərn/
Forms: 1500s noctourne, 1500s–1600s nocturne, 1700s– nocturn.
Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French nocturne; Latin nocturnus.
Etymology: < Middle French nocturne occurring at night (1355) and its etymon classical Latin nocturnus belonging to the night, occurring at night, operating by night, nocturnal < noctū by night (see noctuary n.) + -rnus , suffix forming adjectives. Compare Italian notturno (a1320), Old Occitan nocturn (14th cent.), Spanish nocturno (1438). Compare earlier nocturnal adj.
Now rare.
Nocturnal.
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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.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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