单词 | novendial |
释义 | novendialadj.n. Now rare. A. adj. Of a religious ceremony, etc.: lasting for nine days. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > of or lasting specific number of days novendial1533 triduan1597 quadragesimal1610 hebdomadal1612 quinquagesimal1652 tricenary1655 septuary1700 tridiurnal1828 trigesimal1839 trihemeral1840 ninety-day1859 three-day1890 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. i. xii. 72 The Romanis..Institute ane new sacrifice, callit in þai dais þe sacrifice nouendiall. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxi. lxii. 429 For the raining of stones in Picenum, there was ordeined a Nouendial feast for nine dayes. 1624 A. Darcie tr. Originall of Idolatries xviii. 74 As the ancient Romane Idolaters had recourse likewise to the Nouemdiall Masse, vpon any monstrous prodigies. 1686 J. Warr tr. Quintilian Declamations xii. 313 Does not even the Novendial Solemnity come too late, when a people is wholly extinct? 1880 E. C. Brewer Reader's Handbk. Allusions (1898) at Novendial Ashes A Novendial holiday, nine days set apart by the Romans in expiation of a shower of stones. 1924 W. B. McDaniel Rom. Private Life 195 (note) We may compare the novendial period of mourning for a pope. B. n. (a) A funeral ceremony held on the ninth day after the burial of a deceased person. Now rare. †(b) A religious ceremony lasting for nine days. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > faith > worship > liturgical year > feast, festival > [noun] > lasting nine days novendial1600 novenaryc1633 novena1757 novene1826 the world > life > death > obsequies > commemorative ceremonies > [noun] > religious or mass > on ninth day after funeral novendial1600 nine night1913 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xxxi. 22 The Romanes..celebrated solemne publicke sacrifices for the space of nine daies, called a Novendiall. 1736 J. Addison tr. Petronius Wks. 129 Scissa kept a Novendial for his servant Misellus, whom he enfranchised after he was dead. 1793 A. Murphy tr. Tacitus Ann. vi. v. (note) Nothing different from a novemdial, or mourning-festival. 1896 Cent. Mag. May 138/2 During the novendial, or nine days succeeding the Pope's death, the celebration of his obsequies and the mourning for his loss are supposed to absorb universal attention. 1930 A. R. Allinson tr. Petronius Satyricon x. 139 Scissa was giving a very elegant nonvendial in memory of her poor old slave.] This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1533 |
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