单词 | parvis |
释义 | parvisn. 1. a. An enclosed area or court in front of a building (esp. a cathedral or church), frequently surrounded by columns; a single portico or colonnade in front of a church; a porch. Also: the entire space around a church, esp. in France.In the Middle Ages the parvis of St Paul's in London was a well-known meeting place for lawyers and their clients, while books were sold in the parvis of Notre Dame in Paris. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > narthex or portico > [noun] parvisc1387 Galileec1593 portico1607 pronaos1614 propylaeum1637 out-porch1641 ante-temple1670 narthex1673 prostyle1683 opisthodomos1706 peribolos1706 choultry1772 posticum1776 propylon1830 proaulion1842 opisthodome1846 atrium1853 c1387–95 G. Chaucer Canterbury Tales Prol. 310 A sergeant of the lawe, war and wys, That often hadde been at the Parvys [v.rr. pavys, parys] Ther was. a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) 7108 Ther nas no wight in all Parys, Biforne Oure Lady, at parvys, That he ne myghte bye the booke. Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 385 Parvyce, parlatorium. 1476 J. Paston in Paston Lett. & Papers (2004) I. 599 I prey yow, as ye se hym at the Paruyse..calle on hym for the same letter. a1500 in R. H. Robbins Secular Lyrics 14th & 15th Cent. (1952) 56 (MED) If þou haue out to do with þe law to plete, At london at þe parvis many on wyll þe rehete. 1687 A. Lovell tr. J. de Thévenot Trav. into Levant ii. 80 Before this Mosque there is a Parvis or Walk of many Angles, and in the middle of it a Bason of Water likewise Polygone. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Parvis, a Court before a Church-Porch, or any Palace or stately House. 1745 F. Blomefield Ess. Topogr. Hist. Norfolk II. 748 In 1300, I find Mention of a Publick School for Children to learn to read and sing, kept in the Parvis of this Church [sc. St Martin's, Norwich]. 1816 J. T. James Jrnl. Tour v. 473 A Greek cross divided by four square pillars in the centre, with a vestibule or parvis, one arch in breadth, advanced in front. 1864 H. W. Longfellow Divina Comm. ii Canopied with leaves Parvis and portal bloom like trellised bowers. 1881 Daily News 1 Apr. 3/1 Its illuminating power was clearly proved by the two lamps on the parvis of St. Paul's Cathedral. 1899 T. A. Cook Story of Rouen iv. 70 These shops were built up against the crenelated wall that surrounded the Parvis until the quarrel between canons and bourgeois pulled them down in 1192. 1975 R. Speaight Compan. Guide Burgundy xi. 239 The charming Maison du Colombier..which you can see from the parvis of Notre Dame. 1984 J. H. Baker Order of Serjeants at Law vi. 103 There is evidence..that the parvis of St Paul's was the meeting-place where lawyers met their clients. 2002 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 29 Dec. ii. 41 The enormous nave resembles a parvis, the open area outside a European cathedral's main facade. b. A room over a church porch. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > division of building (general) > narthex or portico > [noun] > room over parvis1836 1836 J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Archit. 41 Parvis, a small room over the porch, formerly used as a school. 1848 J. H. Parker Rickman's Styles Archit. Eng. (ed. 5) p. xlvi A plain porch..with a room over it (commonly but erroneously called a parvise). 1888 Notes & Queries 7th Ser. 6 203/1 Over each porch in the nave is a parvise, or priest's chamber. 1970 N. Pevsner Cambridgeshire (Buildings of Eng.) (ed. 2) Gloss. 519/1 Parvis, term wrongly applied to a room over a church porch. These rooms were often used as a schoolroom or as a store room. 1999 J. S. Curl Dict. Archit. 484/1 Parvis(e), corruption of Paradise, often, but incorrectly, applied to a room over a church porch. 2. A public or academic conference or disputation. Now historical. [So called from being originally held in the court or portico of a church.] ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > debate, disputation, argument > academic or public disputation > [noun] oppositionc1451 schoolsc1475 parvis1496 debatec1500 parley1577 probleming1657 tilt1709 responsion1841 1496 (c1410) Dives & Pauper (de Worde) iii. vi. 142/1 There [i.e. in chirche] they holde theyr peruys of many wronges whiche they thynke to doo. a1500 (a1460) Towneley Plays (1897–1973) 240 ‘It is trew that I told; ffayn preue it I wold’..‘Thou shalbe cald to peruyce [rhyme seruyce].’ c1530 T. More Let. Impugnynge J. Fryth in Wks. 841/2 Whan he was a young sophister he would I dare say haue been full sore ashamed so to haue ouerseene himselfe at Oxforde at a peruise. 1579 W. Fulke Heskins Parl. Repealed in D. Heskins Ouerthrowne 296 M. Hesk. will set..a boy in the Paruis to answere the Bishop. 1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Parvis, a Court before a Church-Porch,..whence that Disputation at Oxford, call'd Disputatio in Parvisiis. It is also apply'd to the Mooting or Law-Disputes among young Students at the Inns of Court. 1784 L. MacNally Robin Hood iii. 59 First bring me in the robes and coif, we stripped from the learned Serjeant of the law, on his way to the parvise. 1886 H. C. Maxwell-Lyte Univ. Oxf. 205 A ‘general sophister’..was required to attend the logical ‘variations’ that were held ‘in the parvise’ for at least a year, ‘disputing, arguing, and responding’ on sophisms. 1929 Mod. Lang. Notes 44 499 The meaning of this word was later developed into the signification of a place where lawyers heard their clients, and..that meaning is the one that was attached to the equivalent word parvis. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1387 |
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