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单词 of obligation
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of obligation
c. of obligation: obligatory; spec. (Roman Catholic Church) day (also holy day, holiday, etc.) of obligation n. a special feast day on which attendance at Mass is obligatory (and which was, in former times, generally taken as a holiday from work).
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day (also holy day, holiday, etc.) of obligation1834
1719 Evening-office of Church (ed. 2) p. v On any Sunday or Festival of obligation.
1834 K. H. Digby Mores Catholici V. vii. 188 In England, from the introduction of Christianity till the Participate of Pius VIII. it was devoutly observed as a holy day of obligation.
1885 R. F. Littledale in Encycl. Brit. XIX. 93/1 The Mohammedan pilgrimages..consist..of two main classes, which may be distinguished conveniently by Latin theological terms, as those of ‘obligation’ and those of ‘devotion’. There is properly only one Moslem pilgrimage of obligation, that to Mecca.
1885 W. E. Addis & T. Arnold Catholic Dict. (ed. 3) 564/2 All bishops and priests with cure of souls are bound to say Mass for their people on Sundays and holidays of obligation.
1978 Listener 17 Aug. 201/2 The [Glasgow] Catholic Schools had holidays of obligation throughout the year.
1995 E. Toman Dancing in Limbo i. 33 There were chickens and boiling fowl for holy days of obligation, salmon from the Blackwater and Warrenpoint herrings for Friday abstinence.
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