| 单词 | ordinary of assize and sessions |
| 释义 | > as lemmasordinary of assize and sessions 7. †(a) More fully ordinary of assize and sessions. A diocesan officer appointed to give criminals their ‘neck-verses’ (see neck-verse n.), and to prepare them for death. Obsolete. (b) The chaplain of Newgate prison, whose duty it was to prepare condemned prisoners for death. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] > prison > to condemned criminals ordinary1696 society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > chaplain > [noun] > prison > to condemned criminals > at Newgate ordinary1696 1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Ordinary,..Also the Bishop of the Diocesses Sub at Sessions and Assizes, to give Malefactors their Neck-verses, and to judge whether they read or no. 1700 W. Congreve Way of World iii. i. 43 The Ordinary's paid for setting the Psalm, and the Parish-Priest for reading the Ceremony. 1743 H. Fielding Jonathan Wild iv. i, in Misc. III. 286 In Newgate..the Ordinary himself..declared that he was a cursed Rogue, but no conjurer. 1818 W. Hazlitt Lect. Eng. Poets (1870) v. 187 He is a kind of Ordinary, not of Newgate, but of nature. 1890 Dict. National Biogr. at Goodcole, Henry His ministrations seem to have proved acceptable to the condemned prisoners at Newgate, whom he attended by leave of the ordinary. 1900 Sir W. Besant in Daily News 3 Sept. 6/2 The prisoner was conveyed to the spot in a cart beside his own coffin, while the ordinary sat beside him and exhorted him. 1991 Hist. Jrnl. 34 764 In an earlier study of criminal biographies written by the Ordinary (chaplain) of Newgate prison, Peter Linebaugh argued that it was necessary that criminals who were sentenced to death confessed their crimes. < as lemmas |
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