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单词 bema
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beman.

Brit. /ˈbiːmə/, U.S. /ˈbimə/
Etymology: < Greek βῆμα, lit. ‘a step’ ( < βα- go); hence, a raised place to speak from, the tribune, or rostrum; whence, the apse or chancel of a basilica, in which sense it first appears in English.
1. Ecclesiastical History. ‘The altar part or sanctuary in the ancient churches’ (Chambers); the chancel.
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society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > chancel or sanctuary > [noun]
chancel1303
sacrarya1387
sanctuarya1400
presbytery1466
presbyterium1565
cancelli1642
bema1683
sacrarium1727
haikal1884
1683 T. Smith in Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 13 345 I observed but one step from the Body of the Church to the Bema or place where the Altar formerly stood.
1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Bema made the third, or innermost part of the church, answering to the chancel among us.
1861 A. Beresford-Hope Eng. Cathedral of 19th Cent. At Torcello the episcopal cathedra is raised aloft in the bema or apse.
2. Ancient Greek History. The platform or tribune from which an Athenian orator addressed the assembly.
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the mind > language > speech > speech-making > [noun] > platform or stand > in ancient Rome or Greece
rostrum1542
rostrum1571
bema1820
1820 T. Mitchell tr. Aristophanes Knights in tr. Aristophanes Comedies I. 225 The most worthless of those who mount the bema.
1864 Lewes Aristotle 9 For sixty years Pericles had ceased to thunder from the bema.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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