单词 | bema |
释义 | beman. 1. Ecclesiastical History. ‘The altar part or sanctuary in the ancient churches’ (Chambers); the chancel. ΘΚΠ 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. ΘΚΠ 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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