单词 | oratour |
释义 | † oratourn. Obsolete. Chiefly Scottish. 1. A small chapel or shrine; a room for private prayer; = oratory n.1 1a. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > oratory > [noun] bead-housec1160 oratorya1382 oratourc1400 oraculum1565 proseucha1602 c1400 (?c1390) Sir Gawain & Green Knight (1940) 2190 (MED) Þis oritore is vgly, with erbez ouer-growen. c1480 (a1400) St. Mary of Egypt 127 in W. M. Metcalfe Legends Saints Sc. Dial. (1896) I. 299 Þai entryt in þare oratore..& kneland, maad þare oracione. a1505 R. Henryson Test. Cresseid 8 in Poems (1981) 111 Within myne oratur I stude. a1578 R. Lindsay Hist. & Cron. Scotl. (1899) I. 116 I will pas to my orature and pray to god for yow... Than this bischop..led him to his oriture. 1633 in C. Rogers Earl of Stirling's Reg. Royal Lett. (1885) II. 679 That everie of yow..doe vse in your severall oratours the liturgy of the Church of England. 2. The medium through which a god is supposed to speak; = oracle n. 1. Cf. oratory n.1 2. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > expectation > foresight, foreknowledge > prediction, foretelling > divination through oracles > [noun] > medium or mouthpiece of the deity, oracle oraclec1425 oraculumc1450 oratorya1522 oratoura1522 oracler1584 trivet1587 tripos1589 oraclist1603 tripod1603 presagitian1652 responsory1677 a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1959) vii. ii. 127 The kyng..gan to seik belive His fader Fawnus oratour [L. oracula] and answair, Quhilk couth the fatis for to cum declair. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2004; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < n.c1400 |
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