单词 | obedientiary |
释义 | obedientiaryn. 1. A person practising obedience, or owning allegiance; a subject, a liegeman; an ecclesiastical subordinate. Now archaic and rare. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [noun] > one subject to authority > and owing allegiance obedientiary1536 feudary1620 allegiant1886 1536 T. Bedyll Let. in T. Wright Three Chapters Lett. Suppression Monasteries (1843) 98 I am now at Ramesey, wher in myne opinion the abbatt and convent be as true and as feythful obedienciaries to the kinges grace as any religious folkes in this realme. c1540 Bp. of Bangor in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1846) 3rd Ser. II. 151 I, your verye humble obediencyarye, most mekelye besechithe your Grace. 1598 J. Stow Suruay of London 462 In respect of the whole Realme, London is but..a subiect and no free estate, an obedienciarie, and no place endowed, with..absolute power. 1700 J. Brome Trav. iii. 277 John..yielded his Realm Tributary, and himself an obedientiary and vassal to the Bishop of Rome. 1935 E. R. Eddison Mistress xxi. 428 I will, in token of faith and as his loyal obedienciary, shortly send him the heads or other proofs of the taking off of the persons here most disaffected. 2. Church History. A member of a religious house assigned by a superior to a particular (usually administrative or domestic) office; spec. a monk or nun upon whom financial and administrative duties, esp. those relating to the house's property, were devolved. Cf. obedience n. 5. ΘΚΠ society > authority > subjection > [adjective] underheilda1300 underlouta1300 underling?1370 subjecta1382 obeisantc1390 obedienta1398 subditc1430 subordinatec1485 subjugal?c1500 liablec1571 subaltern1581 regardant1583 obnoxious1591 vassal1594 servient1606 subservient1638 succumbent1647 ancillary1667 secondary1667 supposite1677 discretional1776 obedientiary1794 heteronomousa1871 satellite1882 society > faith > church government > monasticism > monastic functionary > [noun] obediencera1325 ordinar?1403 ordinary1425 egomena1626 obediential1661 communara1730 obedientiary1794 obedientiar1892 1794 W. Tindal Hist. Evesham 94 The prior, sub prior, the third prior, and other obedientiaries of the order. 1886 Athenæum 3 July 14/1 In the case in point the convent in its corporate capacity stood to the obedientiary in the relation of owner of the fee. 1897 E. L. Taunton Eng. Black Monks I. 57 These payments were often assigned to divers officers of the abbey, obedientiaries as they were called. 1948 D. D. Knowles Relig. Orders in Eng. ii. 21 The employment of many [black monks] in administration had led to..the splitting of communities into the two classes of obedientiaries and monks of the cloister. 1972 W. A. Pantin Oxf. Life iv. 48 Sometimes at least the professors were left to administer their own estates (rather like a monastic obedientiary). 1993 B. Harvey Monastic Experience ii 43 In the later Middle Ages, Benedictine monks found many occasions suitable for light, and not so light refreshments: a party for family and friends after a First Mass, an obedientiary's party for his assistants. Compounds C1. obedientiary account n. ΚΠ 1948 Econ. Hist. Rev. New Ser. 1 86 The estate records of Peterborough stretch in unbroken chain from monastic obedientiary accounts. 1993 B. Harvey Living & Dying in Eng. iv. 118 References to these gifts in the obedientiary accounts of the period enable us to date the First Mass. obedientiary department n. ΚΠ 1931 Econ. Jrnl. 41 137 The two most important chapters..are those concerned with descriptions of the Manors of the Priory and of their relations with the several obedientiary departments. obedientiary office n. ΚΠ 1961 Compar. Stud. Society & Hist. 3 466 In the final analysis, the obedientiary office was administrative rather than entrepreneurial. 1997 J. Greatrex Biogr. Reg. of Eng. Cathedral Priories of Province of Canterbury 67 There are details of the abp's dispute with the monks over their manner of presenting to him nominations for obedientiary office. C2. obedientiary roll n. historical a written financial record or account kept by an obedientiary. ΚΠ 1892 G. W. Kitchin (title) Obedientiary rolls of St. Swithun's, Winchester. 1930 H. W. Saunders (title) An introduction to the obedientiary & manor rolls of Norwich Cathedral Priory. 1989 G. Rosser Medieval Westm. Introd. 4 The value of the obedientiary rolls is enormous. obedientiary system n. historical a highly devolved financial system used by some religious houses. ΚΠ 1931 Econ. Jrnl. 41 137 Here new theories..are advanced by Dr. Saunders..in connection with the obedientiary system. 1948 D. D. Knowles Relig. Orders in Eng. v. 50 It avoided waste and personal aggrandisement of the old obedientiary system, and secured the maximum income for the monastery. 1986 W. J. Millor et al. Lett. John of Salisbury I. 247 The establishment of separate offices and the division of funds for specific purposes was a characteristic of monastic finance in the twelfth century, when the obedientiary system..first became the norm in the larger Benedictine houses. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1536 |
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